That being said, of those on his list I can offer up a quick recommendation for artist Kirsten Brown as I own some of her work myself, the site grinding as it is among the top feeds I check, the game work of Zachary Anderson who I fortunately know in real life, albeit not as well as I’d like, and the also wonderful art of Ben Templesmith (the 21st century’s answer to Bill Sienkiewicz, not that Mr. Sienkiewicz is not still producing great work, but if you like the latter, you’ll probably like the former and vice versa).

Oh man. I just remembered all of the old Hardy Boys books and others that I still have in boxes too. Now I know what I’ll be doing over winter break. Well, that and finally doing my “six degrees” DVD re-organization (any offers of help on that front will be gladly accepted).

Every couple of months I’d check Amazon to see if they had a listing yet. Finally, last night, as I was looking up the new Douglas Coupland novel (to, in a very geeky & digital way, confirm it’s existence, even though I had it physically in hand), I did a quick search for “Pevear” and there it was. Not only was it there, but it’s coming out in just 10 days. So October will apparently be the month where I buy a lot of books because goodness knows I don’t have enough.

I still remember reading “A Wrinkle in Time” for the first time and being enthralled (and certain that I must have gotten ahold of an adult’s book instead).

Years later when I delved into quantum theory, I realized that I had already delved into it thanks to L’Engle’s books. Truly a loss, but one mitigated by all the wonderful works with which she has left us.

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I’ve not watched the episode yet myself and, to be honest, not yet finished Mailer’s new novel, but am enjoying the latter and looking forward to watching the former.

(And while you’re at Google Video, take a look my production company’s films.)

It is hilarious. The writing is, well, clearly aiming for those people who consider reading the credits on a movie to be challenging (I don’t need to hear the dead guy’s four line message repeated twenty times, especially when you’re trying to explain what just one line means. Heck, I’ve heard it enough I could now recite it backwards in pig latin while drunk). The exposition sequences are even more ponderous than the description of the tabernacle in Exodus. And for characters that are supposedly such brilliant thinkers and have amazing storehouses of knowledge of these secret machinations they sure are slow to reason out what’s going on and what each little clue means.

On top of it all, so many of the “facts” and theories are either wrong or just lack any real reasoning. The best debunking I’ve found in the tiny bit of searching I did (I don’t plan to do any more as I’ve got much better ways to spend my time), is this write up, Crash Goes the Da Vinci Code. On a few points, that piece’s arguments don’t quite hold up to the light of reason (or historical evidence), but it does point out the flaws and inaccuracies in some of the more outrageous claims.

Overall, it keeps making me think of the Celestine Prophecy, which I will admit had gotten me on the verge of believing back when I read it in high school. In my defense, I was in high school and it was around the time that I was toying with a belief in the Force. (pausing while the laughter subsides) Anyway, back to the funny book for me. (And for the one (or more) of you waiting for the political invective to shoot forth and burn out your eye sockets, it’s coming soon. And it’s bringing a local friend.)

Earlier this evening I was watching the the viral video podcast from Search for Video and came across part five of another podcast. Some documentary about a pair of independent filmmakers taking their film to the Slamdance Film Festival. The film is Four Eyed Monsters. While I know almost nothing about it, I can’t recommend the podcast highly enough.

In one of those not-so-odd coincidences that happens with how fast stuff spreads on the net these days, a few minutes later I was listening to the Buzz-o-phone podcast (you call up the 800 number on that site and leave a less than 2 minute long message that is then spit back out to the world in handy dandy podcast form) and the founder of the site spent two minutes promoting the film as well. I don’t recall seeing it mentioned much of anywhere else yet so hopefully it’s about to burst out into full everybody-has-to-blog-about-it glory.