I can’t say too much about Heart Shaped Box, as my wife hasn’t finished reading it yet…

Suffice to say that it was easily one of the best books I’ve read in a while.  Certainly the best horror story in a good couple of years.

I’m definitely going to have to keep an eye on Joe Hill…

Looks like Tyrannis is being deployed tomorrow.

I’m not playing EVE anymore…  And I’m not sure how interested I’d be in Tyrannis, since it focuses more on planetary goodies…  But it still looks cool.  Makes me want to re-subscribe…

Weird night last night.  Couldn’t stay asleep.  Woke up around 3:00, then again at 4:00, then again at 5:00…  I was relieved when 6:00 finally rolled around just so I could finally get up and stop trying to sleep.

I’m not sure what was up with that…  I normally sleep through the night with no trouble at all.

Went to see Iron Man 2 over the weekend…

Received a couple free comics at the theater.  Enjoyed the movie.  Looks like They’re coming out with a Thor movie.  Saw a trailer for Super 8.

The trailer for Super 8 reminds me a lot of the trailer for Cloverfield – dramatic and vague.  It reveals basically nothing about the movie.  Nor does the official website.

And it is being directed by J.J. Abrams.

All of which leads me to believe that I’m probably going to wind up disliking the movie.

I was really not very impressed with Cloverfield.  It looked cool…  Plenty of running and screaming…  Good special effects…  But it was more like one long action sequence than an actual movie.

The characters were introduced before the movie ever came out, via FaceBook and MySpace and YouTube.  There was no exposition or development within the confines of the movie itself.

There was no exploration of what the monster was, or where it came from, or what it wanted.  No exploration of the characters – who they were, what they wanted, why we should care about them.  No arc to any of it.  Just a monster smashing things.

And, judging from the fans that crawled out of the woodwork to incinerate my opinion, this kind of crap is typical of Abrams.

It is snowing again.

May 9th…  And it is snowing…  This is not right.