Recent content by jian

Oh, of course the studios and publishers are very happy to do this, the property isn’t being milked properly otherwise. But there’s every indication that JKR is driving the recent renaissance and remakes in adaptations personally.

As we all know to the world's detriment, no money is enough money for some people. Once you get into that 0.1% bracket, you can realise quickly how much more money than you some others have - there's as much disparity within the 1% as within the 99% globally. But also, JKR wants and needs money...

Sadly it’s obvious that JKR would like more money and thus more adaptations, this time with actors who won’t criticise her personal views and actions. Sadly, because of her views and actions, I have no interest in watching this. (And - personal opinions about media ahoy! - I've never been much...

101 Dalmatians in 1996 probably was the first and not that bad (great work from Glenn Close, pointless waste of Hugh Laurie). It was uneven but had this fantastic line which, in the 1990s, had to be put in the mouth of a villain: Cruella: More good women have been lost to marriage than to war...

I do agree that too many of the choices are too similar - Knave could be folded into Into the Odd and Odd-adjacents (such as Mausritter) in general, and I really don’t think much is lost by folding all of them into OSR, which could then be folded into d20 - but whatever people want, I guess...

I sign a lot of stuff for work so I tend to just use my three initials, cursive but legible. For legal documents I tend to use my first name, initial, last name, also cursive and legible. My electronic signature is basically the same.

Ooh, Jane Jacobs! I just learned about her from the Origin Story podcast about 15 minute cities. I see you can do walks in Toronto based on her writings (she moved there after she got arrested protesting developers in New York). According to the podcast, she spent a lot of her childhood having...

IIRC the armour was forged in the mighty fires of the steelworks of Pittsburgh.

Read P Djeli Clark’s time travel short story, Cronus, today, and it’s a perfect little tale and very relevant to our times. Of course if a US techbro worked out time travel, this is exactly what they’d do. I’d love to see the concept expanded into a novel.

Nor does Dwayne Johnson, as we know. That hairpiece just looks really wrong on him.

"Vagina dentata, it's a wonderful phrase... it means no wiener, for the rest of your days... it's a penis-free, girl cavity, vagina dentata!" http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20040121.html More seriously, maybe it's a weird thing to say, but Johnson looks completely wrong for Maui. You want a...

Read a few Avengers Masterworks recently and it’s a weird blast from the past seeing panels by John Buscema (especially from Masterworks vol 8) which featured as examples in How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way (which of course was mostly illustrated by Buscema). Goliath (Clint Barton) getting...

We don’t have cable and have generally resisted getting Crave (so expensive) but may have to just so we can watch the last two seasons.

Watched the first episode of Resident Alien and it’s pretty great (and recognisably filmed right here in BC). I enjoyed the GN, this is different but just as good so far. May have to uncancel Netflix.

Yup, great choices all.