The Michael Canfield Channel

Cross-posting local Seattle sports news ...

 

Howard Schultz sells Sonics and Storm - Blogging Stocks.

Yesterday's plan ...

to get a lot of work done at home in the morning before even thinking about playing around, went out the window when the FedEx man arrived:

Lying Bloggers

Link: Starbucks Gossip: Don't you hate those people who sit and use your wi-fi all day?
Comment from Becca:

We have free wifi (the only Bucks in the city that does!) and we have a couple of people who use it all day, but they all buy drinks. One guy is the funniest, he just doesn't know it. He spends all day working on his blog (how he makes a living, I have NO idea), anyways, his blog is a complete lie! He makes these posts like "I'm travelling through Spain today, and did this..." then he goes and finds pics and posts them. We always try to spend as much time as possible bussing the tables near him so that we can read his lies of the day.

A Scanner Darkly

   Haven't heard much about this film, which is not surprising, I guess, but finally I have seen the Phil Dick movie I've waited almost thirty years for: faithful to the original - not only in plot, but also in aesthetic. Finally someone had the guts to do phildickian sf the way Dick himself did. Linklater shows us no hovercraft, no leather trench coats, no cyberpunk chic, just the beat up cars, trashed yards, and lost souls of suburban California. Dick created landscapes that look like the future we have, unlike a cartoon like Bladerunner, which still looks like, well, an old movie. Keanu Reeves, for all his past portrayals of cyberpunk heroes, gets it exactly right here,  playing a classic Dick character - cop investigating himself while his identity unravels - as neither Cruise nor Ford had, or perhaps even bothered to seek the awareness to do. Probably better for their matinee-idol careers that they did not try.

My review of 'Brotherhood' (Showtime, Ep.02) is up

Link: Brotherhood: Genesis 27:29 - TV Squad.

Day off

Taking a day off from everything ...

Meme Therapy: Brain Parade Magical Thinking part one

SF and Fantasy writers, Tim Pratt, Sean Williams, and Jason Stoddard, along with biologist Daniel Rhoads, philosopher Janet D. Stemwedel at the invitation of the blog Meme Therapy to discuss the dangers of Magical Thinking. As both longtime readers of my blog will know this keeping magical thinking out of the public discourse (not to mention psychology) and keeping it where it belongs -- in fiction -- is a longtime interest of mine, so I'm folling the discussion with interest.

[Via Tim's Tropism]

TV Squad

Catch my posts on Blade: The Series

and Showtime's Brotherhood now at TV Squad.

 

Maybe a $700 lifetime membership is in order

Especially if it means the lifetime of the organization, because The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is indeed a future-orientated enterprise. Notice came this week to renew for the period beginning in the year 20,065. Time travel is also a factor here, as the period I am asked to renew for ends about 18,000 years earlier -- or 12 months from now, in 2007.

Stephen King TV

I am definitely looking forward to the new Stephen King anthology series on TNT (I think) starting tonight (?) after this write up on the opening episode: Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Battleground - An early look - TV Squad.
Evidently this opener stars William Hurt as is told completely without dialog.

I have high hope, but then I had high hopes for Showtime's "Masters of Horror" last season what a load of tedium and almost comically criminal ineptness that turned out to be...