Some of you may remember Pride and Prejudice as told through Facebook. Well today a friend sends me a link to Hamlet - somewhat truncated and less of a riot than P&P but amusing and rightly full of awesome all the same.
Enjoy! And will someone please give Dune the Facebook treatment? Pretty please?
~ Darcy
Categories: cool things
Tagged: Books, Facebook, Hamlet, Hamlet as told through Facebook, Humor, Plays, Shakespeare, Theater
Categories: Comics · cool things
Tagged: Bento Box, Bento Lunch, Books, Comics, Food, Rorschach, Watchmen
So I found these light bulb jokes on this blog on my lunch break today. They have thus far been the highlight of the week but what’s worse….
So. Very. True.
Enjoy!
Q. How many publishers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Three. One to screw it in, two to hold down the author.
Q. How many production people does it take to change a light bulb?
A. That light bulb was supposed to have been changed last week!
Q. How many copy-editors does it take to change a light bulb?
A. The last time this question was asked, it involved production people. Is the difference intentional? Should one or the other instance be changed? It seems inconsistent.
Q. How many marketing directors does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Is it too late to make this light bulb a neon one instead?
Q. How many proofreaders does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Proofreaders aren’t supposed to change light bulbs. They should just query them.
Q. How many designers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Why is there … an eggbeater, I think?… sticking out of this light fixture?
Q. How many cover-blurb writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: A VAST AND TEEMING HORDE STRETCHING FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA!!!!
Q. How many IT people does it take to screw in a light bulb.
A: Just one, but the new light bulbs aren’t compatible with the old sockets, so they’ll have to buy a new light fitting or re-wire the entire building.
Q. How many finance department people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One, but they’re not changing it until someone’s signed the invoice for the new light bulb. And how come we’re going through so many light bulbs anyway?
Q. How many writers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. But why do we have to CHANGE it?
Q. How many mystery writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Two, one to screw it almost all the way in and the other to give it a surprising twist at the end.
~ Darcy
Categories: Publishing · cool things
Tagged: Books, Publishers, Publishing, Publishing Humor, Writers
Oh hell. This had me bawling like a small child for a decent five minutes. I seem to get increasingly more sappy as I get older, dammit. Something -must- be done. To quote the Lady Macbeth: ”Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood and stop up the access and passage to remorse that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep pace between the effect and it!”
Anyway, here is a really beautiful short film by Bruce Bryant, found via Nathan Bradsford. Nathan commented on his blog that he felt it captured what it was like to be a writer, and I couldn’t agree more. World Builder captured exactly the empty, lonely feeling of starting a fresh scene. So very moving.
The film is an awesome piece and reminds me very much of a story my boy-o wrote for me back in the day when we first started dating. Also, I seriously want technology like this.
~ Darcy
Categories: Movies · cool things
Tagged: Bruce Bryant, Films, sci-fi, Science Fiction, Short Films, World Builder, World Building, Writer, writing
Can you tell what book(s) I’m reading right now?
Anyway, Badali has new Mistborn jewelry available for purchase and right now I’m feeling sorely tempted. The allomancy pendants look a little funky though, but the vials are a pretty neat concept. If anything I’d be a Soother, but I think it would just be a grand riot (harharhar inside pun if you’ve read the series– 
I couldn’t resist) to hang a bead of atium around my neck.
I’m on the third book right now. It’s been an exciting series so far. What I’ve liked most is how it has built on itself. I liked Mistborn. I loved Well of Ascension, and Hero of Ages I can’t seem to put down. Unless it is to google what kind of swag I can get, of course. -winks-
Now if only I had $39.00 dollars.
Mistborn is a fantasy trilogy written by Brandon Sanderson, author of Elantris and Warbreaker in case you are wondering about what I am talking about. He has also been chosen to finish the Wheel of Time series by Harriet McDougal, Robert Jordan’s widow and editor.
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~ Darcy
Categories: Wishlist · cool things
Tagged: Allomancy, Atium, Badali, Books, Brandon Sanderson, Jewelry, Mistborn, Mistborn Jewelry.
Description: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice), this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen’s classic novel to new legions of fans.
My Thoughts: …
I can’t decide if I’m horrified or blown away by awesome. What an unexpected and appropriate twist on the Austen revival motif (which has been done to death already). And that cover rocks!
I hope Kitty is the first to become Zombie chow.
/End of Line
~ Darcy
Categories: Wishlist · cool things
Tagged: Books, Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Zombies
While not the coolest thing I say today/yesterday, these were definitely awesomtastic none-the-less. I helped a friend pick out a new skin for her blackberry. She was looking at a few steampunk themes, and we both fell in love with the iPod versions.
Take a gander at these:
Option 2 is probably my favorite I think. They have laptop skins as well, fyi.
/End of Line
~ Darcy
Categories: Steampunk · cool things
Tagged: Steampunk, Clockpunk, iPod Skins
