Reading: Warlord (DC Comics, 1976)
Music: Gaelic Storm
TV/Movie: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Link o' the Day:StrangeHorizons.com



I saw the movie version of John Irving's The World According to Garp recently and forgot what an elegant movie it is. I don't think I've seen it since its 1982 theatrical release--and I think I went to see it more because it had that funny guy from Mork and Mindy in it than for anything else. I didn't get on my John Irving reading kick until college a few years later.

The movie has most of the required elements of an Irving novel: New England setting, wrestling, infidelity, academic setting, novelists, bears, and such. I'm pretty sure this was the first time John Lithgow appeared on my radar... interestingly enough as a post sex-change football player.

Twenty-five years after my initial viewing, I think I can appreciate the quality of acting better. It seems natural now to see that Robin Williams (who is very young in this) would go on to A-list stardom. Glenn Close was brilliant, of course. And the story was told in an engaging way--lots of ups and downs. Great production quality.

It's a sad movie, but not terribly sad. Well, okay, terribly sad in spots...but it could have come out worse. Okay, it probably came out as worse as it could... but I'd say it was still a deent ending for the kind of story it was.

Take that as you will. And yeah, I confidently chalk this up as a recommendation.

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One goes out, another comes in. After having done a complete first layout of the new Ray Danton book yesterday, today I'm going to focus on the next issue of the medical journal...if the damn cats let me. They've been fighting again and they're very indiscriminate in whose stuff they knock over and destroy during their noisy, fur-flying kerfluffles. A water spray bottle becomes my best friend.

I'm calling and e-mailing Bearmanor authors today to go over photo stuff for upcoming books. Next week I'll be doing a number of new book covers and will post previews here.


Rumor has it...Both Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter (both once registered Democrats) started their careers as liberal commentators and both nearly failed before their careers could take off--until it was pointed out that there was more money to be had in the controversial, "nutty" world of right-wing pundits.


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Today's link goes to StrangeHorizons.com - site for great stories, articles, reviews and more. They've been around quite a while now--ten years or nearly so--and still going strong. They published a few things of mine years ago... poetry and reviews, so I've always had a soft spot for them and think you will to.

Cheers!