Wesley Thomas

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  1. Posted

    This isn't specifically my own poop. My pal Timbre - a harpist who has collaborated with the likes of mewithoutYou, Tom Freakin' Jones and Jack White - has launched an IndieGoGo to fund an ambitious new double-LP, Sun and Moon. It's an attempt to bridge the worlds of classical composition and modern songwriting. She's great!

     

    indiegogo.com/projects/help-timbre-record-a-double-disc-album-that-will-unite-two-worlds-of-music

     

    timbre.bandcamp.com to check out her other material. Her cover of Radiohead's "Spinning Plates" will make you weep. 

  7. Posted

    I vote for Gena Showalter's Heart of the Dragon next.

    "Deep in the jungle on the trail of her missing brother, Grace never expected to find a secret world populated by mythological monsters -- nor guarded by a sword-wielding being whose beauty put mortal men to shame.

    Darius en Kragin belongs to a race of shape-shifting warriors sworn to guard Atlantis and kill all travelers who stray within its boundaries. Yet when Grace stumbles into his realm, he finds himself tempted to betray his centuries-old vow.

    Now their forbidden love will either bring their worlds together -- or tear them both apart."

    http://www.amazon.com/Heart-The-Dragon-Atlantis-Book/dp/0373773501

  12. Posted

    I picked up the iPhone game and am now about 30% of the way through it. So far, I'm enjoying it immensely. I will most likely pick up the PC version eventually simply to hear the commentary and encourage more Monkey Island stuff to be produced.

    I didn't particularly care for the new "Direct Input" control interface in the iPhone version. Sometimes it was a bit tough to find and tap stuff on the screen with it. I'm glad they allowed to switch back to the old scheme.

  15. Posted

    Here is the letter the guy sent to me. He actually encouraged me to share it:

    "Dear Wesley Thomas

    I'm the author of 'Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers - A Canterbury Tale by Paul A. Freeman'. I've read your views on PPZ and its spin offs and would like this opportunity, if I may, to put my book into context.

    Although my novella includes zombies, it's not actually part of the 'monster mash' movement. The Robin Hood legends we all know and love are actually composed of myth fragments from a number of different sources. Although I allude to one or two of these in my book, my novella is in effect an original tale. In fact, the first half takes place not in Sherwood Forest, but in the Holy Land during the ill-fated First Crusade.

    Also, 'Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers' is alternatively titled 'The Monk's Second Tale', and is the longest of a series of eight 'new' Canterbury Tales that I've so far written.

    And before you start berating me for jumping on Chaucer's coat tails, let me explain! 'The Monk's Second Tale' is part of my ambitious 'Canterbury Tales' project, and involves each of Chaucer's pilgrims telling a second story in narrative poetry. They are all original tales, though I've borrowed Chaucer's pilgrims for the short prologues and epilogues to the tales. See:

    www.paulfreeman.weebly.com

    Chaucer envisaged his pilgrims each telling four stories - two on their outward journey and two on their homeward journey. Unfortunately he died before completing even a quarter of his tales.

    The Canterbury Tales I've written so far (which chronicle the pilgrims' homeward journey) are all in different genres, varying from fables to fabliau, and from crime fiction to chick lit. Since Coscom Entertainment offered me a chance at publication, 'The Monk's Second Tale' became my horror Canterbury Tale'.

    My Canterbury Tales project is now going quite well. My 'Miller's Second Tale' is being edited for an anthology of neo-medieval literature, and the abridged version of my 'Knight's Second Tale', an Arthurian legend, will appear soon in Every Day Poets' inaugural poetry anthology.

    Sorry I've been a bit long-winded, but this project of mine is very close to my heart and is not meant to be exploitative at all.

    Thank you for taking the time to listen to me explaining what on the face of things is a sensationally titled, band-wagon book, but which is, in reality, anything but.

    If you wish to post this email on the sites you frequent and where you've discussed 'monster mash-ups', feel free.

    All the best

    Paul A. Freeman"

  16. Posted

    Well, if the defense was good, then that hardly matters, does it? :grin: Still nice to see an author going out there and defending his work, even if it's ctrl+c, ctrl+v.

    I don't really see what the problem is. What is your problem with them?

    My main problem is that it looks like the majority of those books were written simply by deleting the antagonists of classic lit and replacing them with zombies. If an author actually works said beasts into the story creatively, I can accept it. Zombies are also getting incredibly played out, which doesn't help me look upon the list with kindness.

    To the author of Robin Hood & Friar Tuck's credit, he seems to have put a bit of work into his tome.

  18. Posted

    Anyone hear about the latest Asian internet café violence? Apparently a 17-year old playing Counter-Strike at an establishment in China got stabbed in the brain with a 30cm for wallhacking. The stabber vacated the premises immediately following the incident and has yet to be hauled in. The rusty blade surprisingly missed major arteries in the boy’s head and was removed successfully. He’s currently under observation, though. They think rust flakes from the knife could cause eventual problems.

    Sick photos contained here: www.hotbloodedgaming.com/2010/03/22/counter-strike-wall-hacker-gets-knifed-in-head/

  20. Posted

    I dropped one mildly disparaging remark in regards to these books in a recent blog post. Apparently the author of Robin Hood & Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers found said post through Google and decided to send me an email defending his book. It was civil, which made me respect him a bit. Some time after that I found another site that slammed his book and he'd commented on the post with almost exactly what he sent to me.

  25. Posted

    I highly recommend it man. It's a shame you already know the twists and stuff, but I'm still pretty sure you'll find some of the scenes pretty nerveracking!

    At least the love scene. WHAT ARE GIRLS?

    Speaking of, have you all looked up the Heavy Rain sex scene on Youtube? The comments are hysterical. Someone said "Wow. That was actually beautiful" in all seriousness. Uhh.