Monthly Archives: January 2012
Character Plausibility in Prose and on Screen
Over the last two years, The Professor and I have gotten really into police procedural TV. We’d been casual fans of NCIS and Criminal Minds for awhile, but when we got Netflix we started to systematically churn through shows like … Continue reading
Unity, Economy, and Writing as a Revelatory Act
So I’ve finally read Samuel R. Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction, which had been strongly recommended to me by many people over many years. It was definitely worth the read, and I was particularly … Continue reading
Enter Macduff
So things have been a little hectic today at Casa Chris. And it’s all because of this little guy: Yeah, ain’t he a cutie? His name’s Macduff, and he’s about ten or eleven weeks old. He’s a rescue, apparently some … Continue reading
REVIEW: Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs
Title: Southern Gods Author: John Hornor Jacobs Pub Date: July 26th, 2011 Chris’ Rating (5 possible): An Attempt at Categorization If You Like… / You Might Like… Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Ghosts by Gaslight Supernatural Noir Mr. Shivers Midnight … Continue reading
Moving Across Mediums: Assessing the Adaptations of Hugo and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
In the past month, I got to see two very different film adaptations of books that I loved: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (which adapts Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret) and Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (an adaptation of … Continue reading
