We Won’t Rock You
There’s a guy called Russell Davies who organises a thing called “Interesting”. He’s done it for the last three years for reasons unknown to me. He’s cancelled it this year, so because I do a blog called I Like Boring Things I decided it would be a good idea. Well, I didn’t. I said on Twitter “Oh, Interesting’s been cancelled this year. Maybe I’ll organise a Boring conference”. That was just half a joke, really, I expected it to go away. But then quite a few people Tweeted back and said “Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. You should do that, I’d go”. Then it got to the sort of dangerous level where enough people said it that I began to think, “I should do this”.
Charlotte Young discusses Stanley Millgram, Cadbury’s Twirls and many other things with James Ward, organiser of the forthcoming Boring 2010 conference.
A Bunny Thing Happened on the Way to the Border
This is not your typical bunny-headed zombie novel, and no, I’m not talking about the chupacabras. When I first heard about this book, I thought it would be a crazy slapstick bloodbath. The awesome cover art seemed to confirm these suspicions. While the book is a fun read, it’s also deadly serious. The fact that one of the protagonists is a zombie with a bunny head takes a backseat to what’s really going on here. Stephen Graham Jones has a brought us a book about revenge. And a book about the sacred bond of father-daughter relationships. All of it set in the cruel desert wasteland between Mexico and Texas.
Gregory Frye reviews Stephen Graham Jones‘ It Came From Del Rio.
3:AM Cult Hero: Don Bluth
Don Bluth loved Snow White and Pinnochio. He felt Disney had abandoned the great artistry of old and he wanted to make films as good as them. He succeeded, although he wasn’t prepared for the Disney renaissance that was to come.