I really do believe it’s time for zombies to re-enter the mainstream imagination and be rehabilitated (or, I guess, habilitated) in the fashion of vampires and, lately, werewolves. If people who suck blood and turn really hairy once a month can be not only heroic but hot, then I don’t see a major impediment. One [...]

This is the description from Apple’s trailer site. These astonishing run-on sentences are marvels the like of which only I am normally capable of causing to be:

In Bruges was filmed on location; Bruges (pronounced “broozh”), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the [...]

Alec Soth just posted an interview with Ted Papageorge. It’s pretty interesting throughout, although my attention definitely spiked at this:

AS: You’ve said that you see photography as ‘at least as close to writing as the other visual arts.’ Are you talking about a specific kind of writing (poetry, journalism, fiction)?

TP: Poetry, because it and photography [...]

My favorite piece of software (ever), Scrivener, has reached 1.0, and is available for sale at $34.99, which is extremely an extremely reasonable price for the functionality provided.

Scrivener is intended primarily for novel-writing, although its features can be applied to many other tasks. With one of the best full-screen modes out there, it’s great [...]

Yes, because words really needed a social metadata site.

Wordie: My list of Vowel Changetacular adjectives

Well, I’m still tweaking, but I’ve hit 50k, more or less finished out a truly crappy plot, and am, as they say, spent.

I can’t wait for next year! Except that I can and will happily wait at least the intervening year, because that’s how long it will take for me to recover from this one.

Belated birthday present. It’s gorgeous—metal and what is probably acrylic but feels a lot like glass. It’s a little bit larger than a pen, and the styling is similar to Visconti’s pens, unsurprisingly.

The system is halfway between brilliant and retarded. (Obviously, close enough to brilliant to please.) In design, it’s a simple tube with a [...]