heads up:
Hot Fuzz trailers, etc have been posted online!

namedrop:
Edgar Wright emailed me personally to tell me the trailers were online. hoo ha

me:
working on something for a Toronto publication that will hopefully see print next week, if I get it done in time. I put all my Toronto-feelings into the Scott Pilgrim books, so squeezing out even a few extra drops of Toronto Time is pretty difficult for me, it turns out.

next weekend:
I am signing at the Beguiling, to make up for the canceled signing last month. Details forthcoming (like I'm not even sure if it'll be on Friday or Saturday yet, but definitely either Friday 27th or Saturday 28th).

i read:
* DESOLATION JONES v1 - hot stuff. bitter, dark, violent, elegantly restrained, secretly tender series from Warren Ellis. Issue 7 comes out this week!
* KUROSAGI CORPSE DELIVERY SERVICE v1 - excellent "editor's choice" type of manga from Dark Horse, with a design-y cover and a great high concept: a group of seniors at a Buddhist university realize they're unemployable, so they start a business bringing misplaced corpses to justice!
* DENSHA OTOKO v1 (CMX) - there's a competing Densha Otoko manga from Viz, but this is the one I read. nice, sweet, light-hearted nerd-love story with fun art and good energy.
* LESS THAN ZERO by Bret Easton Ellis - no relation to Warren (I think). I've been working my way circuitously through this Ellis's oeuvre. This is his first novel and it is sharp, minimal, jaded, hazy, horrifying, etc. Written in 1985 but it feels like we've come back around to the world feeling the same way again. Change a few cultural references, add cell phones and internet, and it could be now. Next on the list is American Psycho!

i am still reading:
* IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER by Italo Calvino (fiction, post-moderny)
* FABRIC OF THE COSMOS by Brian Greene (non-fiction, physics stuff)

right now we're watching ENTOURAGE, season 2 on DVD. This show irritates the hell out of me while being entertaining despite itself. It takes place in Male Fantasy World, where all females are either bitches or whores or both, and every shot has like 100 super-hot female extras vying to get their boobs in front of the camera. Also, it is about a guy who might play Aquaman in a fictional Aquaman movie. Entertaining, yes.

My computer broke, so posting will be infrequent for a while, and hopefully digest-style like this.