The War

September 27, 2007 -- Tags: Food, Recommended-Links, Recommended-TV, Writing

Currently watching: The War on PBS.
Even though I’m a die-hard WW2 history fanatic, I am still learning new things watching this Ken Burns series. Mostly about the homefront and how America was still a deeply segregated country. It was also very interesting to see how news about the war was disseminated [...]

Dragon of Love on the Sundance Channel

-- Tags: Short-Films, Writing

Dragon of Love, featuring Angela Wiggins and my main man Randall Park, directed by Doan La and written by yours truly, will begin running on The Sundance Channel starting on October 2nd, 2007 at 7:00 pm. It will be in regular rotation from then on.
You will also be able to watch it online [...]

Check It Out

September 19, 2007 -- Tags: Evil, Recommended-Links

My new favorite website covering mad science from the 20th century: Modern Mechanix
Some of these articles are especially great — like everything under the Scary tag. So much good stuff in there that I don’t know where to begin. Actually, yes I do: Bake the Ills Out of Your Dog.

Some [...]

ANTSY

September 18, 2007 -- Tags: Manga, Recommended-Books, Writing

Currently Reading:

I just finished reading Scott McCloud’s Making Comics; in there was a chapter on Japanese manga and its artistic/storytelling differences toward American comics. This got me thinking that I should read some manga to see what’s going on there these days.
Yotsuba&! is by the creator of my favorite anime of all [...]

Z

September 12, 2007 -- Tags: Observations, Recommended-Books, Zombies

Currently Reading:

This is some serious desert reading, full of delicious sci-fi bits of goodness. Like the fact that the Israelis have trained special dogs to sniff out human carriers of the zombie plague. This is one of those books that you pore over carefully late at night, hunting out the details. [...]

I Love Creepy

September 10, 2007 -- Tags: Observations, Recommended-Books

I’ve always held a rosy place in my heart for creepy/macabre things. This post is all about that since I am in a creepy state of mind.
I was recently reminded of The House on the Rock in Wisconsin. The Wiki article doesn’t do it justice; fantastic pictures of this place [...]