This is a list of archived entries published in November 2006.
Apologies for the extended absence. After a wonderful Thanksgiving at the parents’ homestead, a fun trip to western Mass. to cut down the family Christmas tree, and a relaxing Sunday, I went to work Monday to discover I’d come down with some sort of cold/sinus infection/creeping death. I tried going in again Tuesday only to [...]
Robert Altman died last night at age 81.
I’m ashamed to say I’ve only seen two of his movies—Gosford Park and…Popeye. But I have every intention of catching up. And apparently my father has caught some of Altman’s early directing work while watching Combat! reruns.
According to this email from Peter Jackson, it looks like PJ and his crew will not be making The Hobbit. But—horror of horrors!—someone else will.
The Hobbit: An Uwe Boll Film. Coming in 2009!
From Variety:
Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures will remake John Carpenter’s frightener “The Thing.”
Script will be written by “Battlestar Galactica” exec producer Ronald D. Moore. The 1982 original dealt with a shape-shifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic facility.
I recently finished watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica, and while I’ve aired [...]
Back to the $10 word titles. Nothing new to report, really—I just wanted to get something up here before it began to rot.
I’m still working on my “Zombie Alamo” story, tentatively retitled “The Wanderer.” Yeah, it’s more generic, but it’s also more evocative of what I’m trying to do with the story. DG says she [...]
Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide, has a piece in The Guardian about the current wave of zombie popularity.
Mariners report new island in South Pacific
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A new volcanic island has risen from the South Pacific near Tonga, according to reports from two vessels that passed the area.
The crew of the Maiken, a yacht that left the northern Tongan islands group of Vava’u in August, reported on their Web [...]
I’d intended to work on Vengeance Upon the Dust today (incidentally, I’ve come to dislike that title and will probably change it), but as usual, I found myself too distracted to get anything done. After watching the second half of Hitch, going to the convenience store, and spending some time with DG, I sat down [...]
So I finally watched Zack Snyder’s 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. It was interesting to watch Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead after having recently watched all of Romero’s films, as well as Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later…. I enjoyed the latter, though I admit it didn’t really feel like a zombie film, and [...]
Unsurprisingly, our big winner for most comments in October was Ed. Ed has decided to forego the actual Halloween Grab Bag prize in favor of mad props. So, mad props to Ed for his superior ability to run up his comment count.
Still working on Vengeance Upon the Dust, which I think is officially a novella [...]