h/t to Betnoir for the video
Even in German this is funny
Author Archives: Bob Evans
Shows that could have been
So here is  an animated series that I think would have been quite popular, but sadly no network was willing to pick it up so all we have is this 4 minute demo reel.
Wowser
So here is a hand drawn pictorial representation of the history of Science-Fiction.
h/t to Andrew Sullivan,
A new software suite coming soon
So, in order to get my sweetie-wife the speed she needs for her own internet needs I have purchased a second computer. (A used iMac a little faster than my current system.) I’ll take this second computer as my own and this system I am now using will becomes hers in the bedroom. (Or vice versa I will really leave it up to her.)
Anyway along with this change I will be transition most of my writing from the software I use now, Pages, to MS Word. Le Sigh. Word, and MS in general are not things I an enamored with, however there are a number of really good reasons to make the switch.
Foremost, Word is very much an industry standard and it will make my life easier once I started selling. (yes, I am still expecting rather than hoping to sell consistently someday.)
Also Word has a number of features that Pages either lacks or has in a less well-defined version, such as the ability to merge files and Track Changes. I write my novels in chapter files, each and every chapter gets its own file and them I have to cut and paste together into a final assembly. Word would allow me to do it just by merging files.
rack Changes is something I am just learning how to utilize and I can see the real advantages to it for copy edits, particularly when someone else — such as the wonderful Sweetie-wife — has done those edits. With both os us using Word she can make the changes, I can use track Changes to see and approve or reject and so get a clean copy with less paper used.
Buut I will use more MS product. Oh well.
Not the best of days
I awoke with a headache and it has been with me all day long. It’s skimmed the edge of migraine several times, but always stayed on the just painful side of it. I stayed at work the whole day and I will finish my edits on chapter 1 tonight but I will not get much more done.
I did find a movie that I added to my Nextflix instant queue, A genre film from 1965 starring John Saxon, and with Basil Rathbone and Dennis Hopper. Gods, with a cast like that how can I NOT check it out.
Sunday Night Movie:The Return Of The LIving Dead
I selected last night’s film based on a couple of different criteria, firstly that it was a shorter film, just over 90 minutes, second that it was not too serious nor too funny but something that struck just the right balance for my mood, and thirdly  I had not watched this film is quite some time so it was due for a screening.
The Return Of The Living Dead is a small low budget zombie movie that has had one clear and lasting impact on the Zombie genre and that is the incorporation of Brain Eating. Not generally known is that this film is a direct sequel to 1968’s Night of The Living Dead, subject of an earlier Sunday Night Movie here. Romero’s partner and co-screenwriter for that classic and far influencing movie, John Russo, had rights to make a sequel just as George A. Romero. Romero famously went off and created in 1979 Dawn of The Dead the archetypal zombie apocalypse movie, a film copies and referenced today more than 30 years later. Russo first crafted a serious script for his sequel but when Dan O’Bannon was tapped to directed O’Bannon thought it better to avoid directly ‘stepping on romero’s toes’ and to instead make a comedic sequel. Of course, being Dan O’Bannon one of the principle forces responsible for Alien, this was not going to be a friendly feel good comedy. O’Bannon rewrote Russo’s script and crafted a unique movie thought one yet unmistakably stamped with’s its period.
Wow, that Red Skull looks good!
Money comes in, Money goes out, never a miscommunication
So this week I got my yearly bonus from my Day job and that certainly felt good. My sweetie-wife has been laboring under a very slow desktop computer so it was time to do something about that.
Here computer needs are much simpler than my won, so I purchased a used iMac for myself and she will now use this machine. Luckily, the bonus covers it nicely.
I finished creating 3×5 cards for each chapter in Love and Loyalty and now I can start playing with the order of the chapters. I’ve read about writers use do this with card and I have never been one who has, but this is a novel situation for me. (Yes, that was an intended pun. I do not do that accidentally.)
The whole novel is now going to turn and be driven by the main character’s choices — so much stronger as a story that way — but that means I have to move something around and some cause and effect is changing. I am really quite excited by the re-write process.
Nothing to say
Because I worked half a day of OT at my day job today and I’m too tired and wrung out for blogging.