Every word we write is born out of our blood and sweat. No, not really, but that’s what we would like people to think. The odd looking device pictured here is a pen that…wait for it…allows you to write with your own (or, presumably, someone else’s) blood. It needs all that complicated assembly to squeeze the blood out of the syringe onto the nib of the pen. Creepy or what? There’s a video of it in action here.
Apropos of nothing, I had to sign my name 250-300 times last night and I’ll have to do the same again tomorrow. I received via UPS the signature sheets for an upcoming project from Cemetery Dance. I’d already signed the pages once, but they went astray somewhere along the line from one author to the next, so now we have to do them all over again. Good thing I’m not signing with my own blood.
I discovered yesterday that I’d missed an episode of Happy Town, so I had to catch up on two. Glad to see M.C. Gainey out of his trance. The show had some real potential, but you have to dig around to find it. Steven Webber, after a promising start in the pilot, has reverted to being dreadful. He should go back to sitcoms, in my opinion. I hope there is some resolution at the end of these remaining episodes.
What do you do to liven up a show after three successful seasons using mostly the same formula? Drop a joker into the mix. The joker in Burn Notice this season is another spy, one who Michael accidentally burns while doing an assignment for his new buddy/handler. The guy is still a valuable asset as he has information about the big bad scary conspiracy Michael is trying to track down, so he’s got to keep him close at hand and gain his trust. Where better to keep him than at Mom’s house? The guy is a bit of a lone wolf, so it should be interesting to see how he and Michael mesh over the coming episodes. Already he’s ruffling feathers and stirring up the dynamics. This could be a positive change for the show, or it could be the death of it, depending on how it’s handled.
I’m about 330 pages into The Passage. Several of the characters went on a mission from the California compound to the nearby energy station. This section reminds me vaguely of the part of Battle for the Planet of the Apes where Caesar, Virgil and MacDonald head for the Forbidden City. Though the “creatures” in this book are called vampires (and it is true that they do crave blood), they also seem to have a zombie-like element to them. Some of them don’t seem terribly smart, and they gravitate back to the place they knew before they were infected, like the zombies in Dawn of the Dead.
