The Long-Awaited 100th Post

This is the long-awaited (by me) hundredth post. True, I could have posted it a lot earlier, but I kept holding out to give something of the Little Red Riding Hood appropriation I wrote a while ago. Unfortunately, having actually handwritten it, I have not had massive amounts of incentive to actually type it out; there are a million other things (mainly to do with my degree) that are begging for more immediate attention than a completed story.

I have been churning ideas around in my head, and in the company of a few like-minded people, and I have some stories in the process of being written, and one or two that are basically written in my head, but require some help in making the leap to the page. I hope that after this next couple of months is done, I will have a bit more time for some interesting things to come out and get written.

SO! What is special about a hundred posts? Not a great deal, I'll grant you that, but I have had numerous blogs over the time, and never made it past about 8 posts before my interest waned. As it turns out, I have given the blog a facelift, doing away with the black in favour of a nicer look. I also intend to do a lot more reviewing of various books or films, which will be fun (for me), as I get to rant, recommend, and talk a bit about what I think makes good books/films/whatever.

Currently, I am reading a few books:

1. Ray Bradbury's Now and Forever (Harper Collins 'Voyager'), featuring the two novellas "Somewhere A Band Is Playing" and "Leviathan '99"

2. Caitlin R. Kiernan's Alabaster (Subterranean Press), which is a short story collection about the albino monster hunter, Dancy Flammarion, first introduced in her second novel, Threshold.

3. Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series (Orbit editions), on Book 2, Fool Moon.

I will review these as I finish them, along with the film Max Payne, based on the eponymous video game, which I am seeing this evening.

Have a good one. Blake.