An early report for Romero’s Diary of the Dead: a mixed review, but it appears that the Weinstein Co. has acquired distribution rights for the States.
Year / 2007
Mini-Roundup
- It looks like a guy named Alexis Debat has faked a number of interviews with a number of substantial subjects and still managed to get his fabricated interviews into policy journals. Incredible. (via The Publishing Spot)
- Tricia Sullivan’s Manifestation of the Really Shitty First Draft. (via Gwenda)
- Ricky Gervais’s newest project? A big-screen film where everybody tells the truth.
- Dahl triumphs over Rowling!
- Bad Sex with Shalom Auslander.
- It looks like the Boston Globe has a new women’s lifestyle magazine in the works.
- The 50 worst cars of all time.
- Martin Amis on 9/11 and the cult of death.
Thursday
It is a day of deadlines and madness. But I will try to offer some posts later.
In other news, my 62 minute self-help presentation, “Cooking an Omelette for Breakfast, Cooking an Omelette for Life” is now ready for the professional lecturing circuit. Interested parties may inquire directly, as the Steven Barclay Agency has recently affixed a large poster in their office with the words “DO NOT HIRE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES” just underneath a grainy Kodachrome photograph of me.
For Freelancers
If you’re feeling despondent about the lack of responses, check out Susannah Breslin’s freelancing stats.
And Speaking of Red Dwarf…
…apparently, you can watch every episode online. (via Quiddity)