Why books make great gifts:
Via Scott Westerfeld, who’s written a few pretty good books himself.
Day: December 22, 2008
Monday various
- The Twelve Days of Zombie Christmas. This one’s mostly for Heather, but hey, who doesn’t like holiday zombies?
- I haven’t revisited It’s a Wonderful Life in years, but it always did seem just as heartwarming as people claimed to me. Maybe I was wrong.
- A game that lets you design your own levels with pen and paper? It looks neat. If I had a webcam, I might even give it a try. [via]
- “The Fox network is developing Bitches, a dramedy about a quartet of female friends in New York who are werewolves…” Yeah, this will end well.
- Speaking of Fox, Yahoo reports that with Alan Colmes’ departure, Sean Hannity to become solo act at Fox News. So nothing new then, huh? [via]
Sincerely faking it
In a recent interview on the Sound of Young America, Ben Folds said:
I’m not so sure that I want it to be clear whether I’m being biographical or not. And that, in theory, would arrest people’s attentions a little bit to wonder whether it’s autobiographical — because people are interested in that, and they’re interested in reality shows….
Americans are. The English are aware that, as I always use as an example, that David Bowie didn’t go to Mars. But over here, Bruce Springsteen, if he says he’s done something, he better have that credibility.