Archive for December, 2009

I’m moving…

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

I’m moving… (more…)

Whoa. Bryan Singer will direct the X-Men again!

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

He’s coming back. (more…)

Iron Man 2: The Trailer

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen… (more…)

Five Auralia’s Colors Confessions: “Summoner and Stranger”

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

The adventure continues…

Once in a while, chapters require several rewrites. But once in a while, they happen so easily that it’s like I’m watching a movie and describing what I’m shown. This chapter was like a movie in my head. Maybe a filmmaker will make it happen someday. For now, all I can offer is the chapter I wrote.

Here are
My Top 5 Confessions About Auralia’s Colors, Chapter 6 – Summoner and Stranger (more…)

Browser: The “Remember me?” edition. Best Directors of the Decade. Mad Hatter! Three Cups of Tea. Lonely writers.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Okay, it’s official: My life has become too busy for me to be a responsible blogger.

Let me try to make it up to you in the next couple of weeks, with a new video blog, my list of Favorite Films of 2009 (the Premature Version), my list of Favorite Recordings of 2009 (almost ready!), more Auralia’s Colors confessions, sneak previews of Raven’s Ladder, and a marathon of interesting links.

Oh, keep an eye on Imagejournal.org. Friday, my review of Avatar should be there. You’ll also see a piece on Christmas movies there soon, and eventually my favorite films of 2009 will be counted down there.

For now, here’s a tray of appetizers:

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No no no no no. Please say it isn’t so.

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

If Tobey Maguire is your Bilbo Baggins, why not cast Nicolas Cage as Thorin Oakenshield or Nathan Lane as the voice of Smaug?

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I saw Avatar and lived to shut up about it.

Friday, December 11th, 2009

As instructed, I’m not I’m not offering any kind of review of the movie until opening day. And I’m sure all other film critics will dutifully follow their own review restrictions, rather than shrugging them off for the sake of being first with a report. So check back on December 18th for a review that I’ve had a good week to prepare.

Five Auralia’s Colors Confessions: “The Ale Boy”

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

He’s small, he’s quiet, and he lives with a painful mystery.

Here are
My Top 5 Confessions About Auralia’s Colors, Chapter 5 – The Ale Boy (more…)

And so to honor Him…

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

TONIGHT: A Celebration of IMAGE – Bearing the Mystery

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009


You’re invited to join me tonight at Elliott Bay Book Company for a very special reading and booksigning.

Robert Clark, Madeline DeFrees, Luci Shaw, Gregory Wolfe, and Mary Kenagy Mitchell will be reading from and signing copies of Bearing the Mystery: 20 Years of Image.

Here are the details: (more…)