Bill Simmons spends the whole of his most recent column praising Miami and the NFL’s return to sunny, fun destinations for the players (and sports writers) of Super Bowl week. I think he’s officially lost whatever remaining shreds of street cred might have been lingering on his person. He’s still a great read as always, though.
Well, looks like I didn’t get into the Halo 3 multiplayer beta. I have no idea what their selection criteria was, but given how many hundreds of thousands of people signed up (and that I have hardly any hours logged on Halo 2 multiplayer), I suppose it’s not that surprising. I’ll tell you one thing, though—I ain’t buying Crackdown just for Beta access (or at all).
Just a reminder, be sure to visit The Snow Miser’s Cooler, which I’ve run for more than seven years now. This month my visits have more than tripled (as usual) thanks to Snow Miser fans. It’s good to know a puppet from a thirty-year-old Christmas special is way more popular than I am.
But I kid the Snow Miser. He’s too much!
According to this email from Peter Jackson, it looks like PJ and his crew will not be making The Hobbit. But—horror of horrors!—someone else will.
The Hobbit: An Uwe Boll Film. Coming in 2009!
Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide, has a piece in The Guardian about the current wave of zombie popularity.
Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy Halloween. It’s funny how anticlimactic Halloween is when it doesn’t fall on a Friday or Saturday night, so you end up going to your big costume party the weekend before.
Well, assuming I get the last part of Vengeance Upon the Dust up today, I’ll have made it. Thirty-one brand-new posts and not a single day missed. Not too shabby.
That doesn’t mean I’ll be resting on my laurels tomorrow, though. Well, maybe for a few days. But there’s a big change a-brewin’ here at BBn, and I think most of you will like it. Until then, go out and find the most sincere pumpkin patch you can, crack a cold one and await the Great Pumpkin. He’s coming this year, I just know it.
I just wanted to mention, it’s okay to comment on the Halloween posts. I’m not preserving them for posterity or anything.
I’m pushing out close to a thousand words a day; it would be good to have something more than my Web statistics to know people are reading. Even if you just want to say, “This review sucks! You suck! Sucking sucks!” That’s fine. I’ll accept any kind of attention.
I’ll even up the ante: the person with the most October comments at the end of the month wins a special Halloweeny prize, shipped via the United States Postal Service and featuring some of today’s finest Halloween geegaws, doodads and thingamabobs. (U.S. residents only. Ryan, that means you. Sorry.)
The first Hellboy Animated movie, Hellboy: Sword of Storms, is set to debut on the Cartoon Network on Saturday, October 28th at 9:30 PM. Set those DVRs now! If you enjoyed the movie (or the comic), give it a shot. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, and John Hurt return to voice their characters from the movie (Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Professor Bruttenholm, respectively).
Well, we’re more than halfway through this and so far I haven’t missed a day. That’s going to get a bit dicey real soon, but I think I’ll make it.
I hope you’re enjoying Halloween Month. I think I’ll have written about 30K-40K words by the end of the month—that’s about a third of a novel for those who don’t know.
The big one’s coming up next week–a multi-part story about (drumroll) zombies. Pray that I actually get it done in time…
Zombies picketing in Austin (and protested by pirates).