Best laid plans

The good news is that I seem to have hit my stride writing The Fabric of Night. I love it when this happens. It seems your just slapping paint on a canvas until you reach that magical point where the story sprawls itself out before you and says "Here I am. Let's go for a ride."

The bad news is that while I'm riding this wave, The Ghoul lays by the wayside. Never fear, The Ghoul can never be counted out. He's been dead once. I think he can handle a brief sabbatical. I just fear for those foolish enough to run into him unfettered as it were. Ah well, better them than me.

In unrelated news, I have not yet summoned the will power to see the new Fantastic Four movie. In time the siren call of the Silver Surfer will lure me in, but probably not before the movie is available to rent. I know that you usually can't trust the critics, but...

Soup of the day

So, the new Fantastic Four movie will be here soon. I have mixed feelings about it. The trailers look really good but the misshapen shadow of the first movie looms over everything. The Fantastic Four have always been a favorite for me. I can only hope that the new movie will get everything right; the family dynamic, the sense of wonder, the magnificent evil of Dr. Doom (he's the ruler of his own country for crying out loud, [and could we have a couple of Doom Bots please?]) Here's hoping.

Danny Elfman will be scoring the Hellboy 2 soundtrack. I liked the first one by Beltrami. I usually love a new Danny Elfman score but it seems he hasn't really knocked one out of the park since Sleepy Hollow. If anything can coax a wonderful score from him I would think it would be Hellboy, with his cast of characters and mix of the urban and the fantastic.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32938

Fans of Dennis Miller rejoice. He has his own radio show. It's a mix of politics and comedy that often has me fighting not to laugh out loud while I'm at work, supposedly working. If nothing else, listening to him will expand your vocabulary exponentially (look it up).
http://www.dennismillerradio.com/

The Stegosaurus dinosaur; not as extinct as we thought.
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/cryptozoology/357/a_stegosaur_in_cambodia.html

50

I have reached the 50 page mark of The Fabric of Night.

Dax and the scarecrow are stowaways on the sky train. Don't tell them, but the vultures are about to hit and the cowboy called Lightn'n may end up being Dax's only help in this strange world.

That's all you'll get out of me for now.