Archives for the Month of January, 2010

Three Bat-reviews for January

My reviews of the January issues of the three monthly Batman titles I do for Bill "Jett" Ramey, the hardest working Batman fan on this or any other planet:

Review: Detective Comics #861
Review: Gotham City Sirens #8
Review: Streets of Gotham #8
I'm sort of in love with Batwoman.

Wildlife Haiku #1 for 2010

An owl on my car.
In my building's parking lot.
On busy Bardstown.

Let's see how many years it is before I do another of these.

Nevsky News Update #1 for 2010

Alexander Nevsky — the actor, author, producer, and bodybuilder with whom my writing partner Kevin Rice and I are scripting what's going to beĀ one hell of a Hercules movie — is beginning his 2010 as busy as always.
Yesterday he began rehearsals for his upcoming stint on the Russian version of Dancing with the Stars, and [...]

Upcoming famous author is my cousin

I knew that my lovely and talented cousin Alissa Nutting's debut collection of short stories, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, was on its way from Starcherone Books this year.
I can't wait.
What I seem to have regrettably missed, however, is that Starcherone featured Alissa not once but twice on its blog in August.

Click here and [...]

Let's do this, 2010. Let's DO THIS!

In the early minutes of 2009, I said to myself, with great humility and terrible exhaustion, "At least this year won't be as awful as 2008."
The universe heard me and apparently mistook my quiet little plea for some kind of brazen challenge or dare, because 2009 began badly and progressively found new and increasingly inventive [...]