Make yourself a superhero. Via Heather |
- Making Light asks, What is it with the zombies?
- Speaking of, dead poets reading their work. Jeffrey Ford isn’t wrong: it’s cool, but it is kind of a creepshow.
- William Shatner wants to be the next Prime Minister? Don’t do it, Canada!
- More on the Kindle 2.0 and the Authors Guild from current president Roy Blount, Jr. I less convinced the Author’s Guild is right about this, but I do think it’s a legitimate enough concern, at least from the way Blount and other writer-contract-readers are interpreting it. Then again, I am leaning more towards Neil Gaiman’s take on the whole thing. John Scalzi also makes some important additional points. I’m not sure it’s a non-issue, but I think it’s less of an issue than the Author’s Guild is worried about.
- Backflick — Reverse-plot movies. Ostensibly for Twitter, but I think plenty non-Twitterers will find these amusing. [via]
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If Canada elects Shatner, it might keep off TV and movies for awhile. California might be screwed, but there’s been a pleasant lack of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies lately.
While I don’t agree with the Authors Guild on the Kindle text-to-speech issue, I can certainly understand why they feel threatened. I have no doubt the publishing industry tries to find every way it can to screw over writers, just like the RIAA screws over musicians.
Nice superhero-you!