KOL irony

It's impossible to make a chef-in-a-box on the initial run leading in to Bad Moon, but it's possible to make one (and the epic weapon) once you're there.

Just glad I didn't ignore that particular quest. :-)

Tuesday linkdump

1. Amazon's latest mega-DVD deal is The Essential 100, a collection of their picks for the 100 greatest movies of all time, with deals up to 50% off on many of them. As with all such lists, there are moments of utter stupidity (Forrest Fucking Gump?). Unlike most of these lists, there are almost no choices that will genuinely surprise people, or introduce a film-savvy person to something new (although it's nice to see a nod made to genre movies, and to some silent classics like The General, Modern Times, and Intolerance (although the lack of Harold Lloyd is unforgivable). Still, there are some good deals.

2. "It was not clear what led to Monday's decision awarding Federline full custody." Really, CNN? Do you not read your own stories?

3. Congrats to the Rockies. That was a hell of a game. Even if they didn't actually score that winning "run."

4. Take the Heart Healthy Challenge, and Quaker will donate $1 to the Larry King Cardiac Foundation (and enter you into a contest).

5. China Mieville writing on the The Freedom Ship and floating utopias.

6. They're making a Solomon Kane movie? Hunh. I had no idea.

7. The Whatever is back! Woo!

8. The current political state of Russia. Depressing.

9. Stephen Moffat is writing a Tintin movie (ganked from Making Light)!

10. Finally, twenty common writing blunders (the focus is on genre fiction, but many of these apply to all writing).

Deadwood: Offically dead

Ian McShane has confirmed that those Deadwood movies that HBO promised were just a bunch of bunk.

The only words I have in response to this are "cocksucker" and "motherfucker."