I don’t even like brown, but it does appear to have its uses.

I look forward to pouring through the rest of your reviews and recommendations. Though a few are already painful to look at as I had to sell them off when I was moving about. I hate having to sell good books.

I think your new book idea would make a great SciFi channel miniseries. MAKE IT SO.

So far, I haven’t enjoyed the output of a single band that actively touts itself as steampunk. The current musical “brass standard” does fuckall for me. Meanwhile, there are plenty of other acts who aren’t clamoring to be defined by a subculture that contain distinctly retro scifi elements –strange homemade and antique instruments, cultural/musical diaspora, futuristic electronic weirdness, pre-television style theatrics– that I adore.

And while I’m venting a little steam (hurr hurr), here’s my (rather infamous) DaVinci Code review over on Goodreads.

The cosplay angle just seems like it’s trying too hard with few really understanding and taking advantage of it. Those that do are impressive though…my hats off to them. Musically I’m curious what falls under it or is that just a non-issue?

Twilight just bugs me the way so many things in this current crop of vamps, werewolves, and monsters do…they take out the actual monstrous side in favor of fake angst and teen drama. The real romance and taboo side of it all has been gutted in favor of soap opera mechanics and cliche’s.

Zombies on the other hand are having a blast from film comedies to high quality comics, books, and art. Long Live The Undead :P

Ah The Da Vinci Code…I’d have no issue with it if some people didn’t praise it as truthful or worse factual. That is what happens when History Class gets gutted to trivia with no depth or context.

I best get started on my new book…it’s about teen models turned vampires who try to take down a Vatican army of giant robots piloted by zombie saints by looking for a secret holy weapon whose whereabouts are hidden in the works of Thomas Kinkade & Jean-Paul Gaultier.

T, while I myself am not fond of the cosplay-as-uniform, clamoring-to-be-defined-by-a-clique-aesthetic side of the current steampunk subculture…. I’ve always, ALWAYS dearly loved it as a literary genre, from The Difference Engine to Perdido Street Station to His Dark Materials to Mortal Engines. Have you read any of those? Highly recommended.

If anything, I’ve been worried that the zombie mania was dying down. :)

I’d pay good money to see Stephenie Meyer’s prairie muffin bake sale bullshit overrun with an orgy of undead violence, or any kind of orgy, really. The Twilight series inspires wrath in me like no book has since The DaVinci Code. What a load of sexist, mindless tripe.

Zombies sure seem to be everywhere these days though don’t they? If only they would invade the land of Twilight and give us the orgy of undead violence we all crave to see…maggot eaten and rotting corpses feasting on the perfectly pale flesh of the immortals.

I’d pay good money for that.