http://www.beautifulhandcraftedanimals.com Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:58:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A solid contribution to the WTF Files is this story about nine-year-old Jericho Scott.  His fastballs have been clocked in at 40 miles per hour and his little league has told his coach and parents that he's not allowed to play baseball in their league because he's too good. Buh? You can ... http://www.beautifulhandcraftedanimals.com/archives/76 First off, and so it doesn't get buried in what could be a long and rambling post, I just read Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember, which you may have seen a movie trailer for. I picked it up on the Kindle, mainly because I was curious about the movie.  Also because, ... http://www.beautifulhandcraftedanimals.com/archives/73 I've been bad about updating lately, and that's been on purpose. We've got some changes coming -- big changes.  Some downloadable content (sample chapters, short stories, etc.), a new design, and more frequent updating. Also, we're moving in ~2 weeks, which will probably make life interesting for a bit, but then things ... http://www.beautifulhandcraftedanimals.com/archives/71 I've been re-reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods on my Amazon Kindle this week, going rrrrealy slowly and catching lots of stuff I hadn't caught in previous reads. "Reads"?  Yeah.  I think this is my third time through.  The Kindle is funny that way -- I'll pick up new stuff I might ... http://www.beautifulhandcraftedanimals.com/archives/70 We saw Hellboy II last night. I spent most of the movie with my mouth open, stunned into silence. I cannot believe we live in a world where Wall-E and Hellboy II can premier in theaters mere weeks apart.  Any sense that the wonder -- just sheer, unadulterated wonder -- might be ... http://www.beautifulhandcraftedanimals.com/archives/69 We went and saw Wall-E last night, saw a 10:15 showing up in Nyack. There are people shitting all over this movie online, saying Wall-E is a condemnation of our crass commercialism, that it's a denoucement of humans and their ways. Anyone who says that must have walked out in the first ... http://www.beautifulhandcraftedanimals.com/archives/68