All right! Over at the footnote (more about tfn in a sec) there I interviewed Cory Doctorow. Over at SFReader I reviewed his upcoming book. They link to each other so choose which you want to start with: The Cory Doctorow interview or the review of Little Brother, and then swap and read the other half!

Yes, I am paving the roads of the future, getting SFReader and thefootnote to link back and forth and love each other in the way that people can get arrested for.

Today is also a full update of the footnote. So along with that you can also read:

Leigh discussing cars, Laszlo talking about evolution, of a sort, D.J. making you read about reading, John pondering money, me being honest about being a writer, Krystal telling us how to achieve greatness, Ryan opining about lint, D.J. talks to the Bastard Winos and then you can vote on this month’s You decide! It’s a chock full of fun update!

This journal will be prank free this year. I swear. Unless I am linking to someone else’s prank and get caught by it in which case I will mistakenly spread stuff around. But I’m not planning on that.

The Footnote is updated. Lots of column-y goodness. MMmm. Enjoy.

It’s time for a tfn update!

Columns about slippers, dogs and life, apartments, religion and culture, publishing, apathy, company, Lohan films, the joy of comics and Bea Arthur!

Go read!

Dustin goes on strike against his TV.

Leigh tells a tale of spotted moments.

Laszlo gets some good vibrations of a sort.

D.J. lists his lists of listy things.

I talk about playing well with others.

I also go into the Saga of the Super-Sons. Yes. Batman, Jr and Superman, Jr.

D.J. tells us what happened to unicorns.

AND MORE….

Hey gang! There’s a special Holiday Cheer Suppliment at the footnote!

There’s a Beyond Book Club where Hemingway and Rand review Christmas Carol.

Story Time! by Dustin Grovemiller is just fantastic and deserves to be read, even if you read nothing else this update.

Dj Kirkbride put up his Xmas wishes! Woo!

In a new Rality is What you Make It we find out about the new changes Santa is planning.

I thank some folks in a new Sight Gags.

Tales of the Workin’ Girl opens up some questions for you.

Enjoy!

NEW footnote is up. All sorts of goodies there, oh yes.
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Stayed up until around 5 or 6am watching movies and hanging out with a friend in between bursts of writing. So I got up a bit later than I meant. But there ya go.
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There’s about a ¼ inch of snow outside. Nice one, nature. Thanks.
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All right, back to work. Have a story to finish.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November
With Natalie Portman in a bad movie with Hugo Weaving
There was a mask, an exec charged with a merchandising task
And historians left grieving.

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The Footnote has been fully updated for November. There are the specialty columns I mentioned on the 1st but now you can also go read the regular columns that updated: Anti-Thoughts, Pure Lard, Sight Gags for Radio, Reality is What You Make It, Gently With a Chainsaw, The Truth of the Matter and AWCOMIX.

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And then there’s New York Jedi! I am not kidding.

From their page:

The New York Jedi are a community of people and teachers who share practical Martial Arts-based and Stage Combat oriented Light Saber techniques. But with the exciting option of creating your own character, you can be the Hero or Baddie you’ve always wanted to be!

And this is not LARP (live action role-playing), it is stage combat and acting.

And while we are not specifically Star Wars-centric, we do rely heavily on many of the principles and training used by that of the Jedi Order. Mental focus, martial arts training, universal knowledge, and creating your own costume, err… robes.

Hey, if they have fun, they have fun. Their page design is so cluttered it gives me eye strain, but maybe I need to view it through a light saber or something. I’m not sure. I’m just not sure. Something about it makes my brain hurt a little bit, though.

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The Computer Game Museum in Berlin had some fun. they built a giant Donkey Kong level using their scaffolding. Why not, right? Found at Urban Retro Lifestyle.

Due to moving the Footnote HQ the November update will come out in stages. But some of it is updated right now!

There is a Hooray for Comics where D.J. Kirkbride and I discuss The Dark Knight Returns and manage to discuss it in ways never done before. Oh yes. Everyone has reviewed this book, but no one has reviewed it like this.

Then there is a second Hooray for Comics where D.J. Kirkbride has a chat with a bunch of creators from the new POPGUN comic anthology!

There is some Robot Poetry.

The start of a new feature: You Decide! which was inspired by the readers of this blog! For real!

And then you can read a review of Adrienne Jones’ novella Gypsies Stole My Tequila followed by a short interview with her in a new Book Report!

Yup! Some tfn goodness for you all!

FOR GENERAL RELEASE

“the footnote” (www.thefootnote.net), the world renowned web site, today announced its latest staff change: Adam P. Knave has been promoted to Bearded Editor / Creative Consultant. The move comes not long after the announcement that Bigfoot could not serve as Bearded Editor due to legal hold-ups with the Sasquatch Company.

Dustin Grovemiller, “the footnote” (tfn) co-founder, managing editor, and web designer had this to say: “To say we are excited is too simple. I simply refuse to wear pants today. That should tell you something. Furthermore, this Adam P. Knave thing is all right, I suppose.”

D.J. Kirkbride, tfn co-founder, senior content editor, and town crier added: “I’m being attacked by ninjas!”

Adam P. Knave started his association with “the footnote” years ago, after pleading with Mr. Kirkbride for a chance. “He was this scruffy drunk bastard who kept calling me. Eventually I gave him a shot, if only to get him to stop threatening my ferrets. I don’t even own ferrets, ya’ know? Anyway,” Kirkbride continued, “it turned out decently, and we kept him around.”

“I didn’t even know he worked for us,” Mr. Grovemiller admitted, “until he mailed me and wanted to know where his check was. I asked Kirkbride, who sheepishly admitted the truth to me. We still don’t pay Knave, but I’ve taken to sending him my recyclables so he can get some spare cash.”

Knave has had many memorable moments with “the footnote” in his time. He worked for the site when Grovemiller wrote the hysterical Transmissions From My Childhood entry “He-Man: Does He Really Have the Power?” as well as being present when John Belden wrote “It’s Silly, But I Believe…” and Kirkbride wrote his infamous D.J. in Charge.

When speaking about his new position, Knave admitted to some trepidation. “I don’t really edit, you know? I mean, mostly I just … well, I send stuff to D.J. and Dustin, and they edit it. I think D.J. said something about my beard being a better editor than me, though, so maybe that’s what the title is about.”

When questioned about his new role as a creative consultant, Knave was more forthcoming. “I’m always saying, ‘I should write something funny next time,’ and ‘maybe the next column shouldn’t suck the life out of the room,’ so I do consult a lot about my lack of creativity.”

Knave also brings with him a healthy dose of leadership. “Sometimes, on Fridays … or Thursday … really the ones that end in ‘day,’ I guess, I’ll suggest things like ‘we should go out for drinks’ and ‘how about some drinks,’ those both have proven to be popular. I’m a leader that way. Except sometimes, I have to admit, they agree on a bar and then switch locations without telling me. Some days I notice.”

The internet, too, had a chance to weigh in on the new staffing change. “I trust Bendis even less now that he brought Hawkeye back,” raged HawkeyeFan7485. “I mean first he kills him and now he brings him back? How does that make sense! He never should have killed him at all! Adam P. Knave? Is he dead, too? Wait, he’s Ronin, right?”

“Adam P. Knave shouldn’t be let near a keyboard,” said Watcher93Moonface, “he isn’t in continuity, and I think he punched Superboy. Can I say Superboy?”

When questioned about the internet’s heated, if confused, reaction, Mr. Kirkbride only sighed, shook his head, and punched a dog in the face. Mr. Grovemiller concurred, but lacked an available dog.

“the footnote” updates monthly, on the first of the month.

http://www.thefootnote.net
Columns. Reviews. Farce.

It’s time for a new issue of The Footnote! Yes, indeedy!

Dustin tells us about his communication problems in a new Anti-Thoughts.

Leigh describes her uhmmm summer vacation, of sorts, inside a brand new Gently With A Chainsaw.

Trevor Continues to explore the life of living the life with a new American Guide to Self-Publishing.

Bethany is on the run, but still filing reports about being on the run with On the Lam.

D.J. Kirkride tells us about the kind of robot he wants to be. With footnotes. Yep, it’s time for a new Pure Lard.

I describe how you make a fiction collection. In detail. Exposing the truth. In a new Sight Gags for Radio.

Krystal goes deeper and deeper into the art of offices in a new Tales of the Workin’ Girl.

Ryan is stalked by aliens in a new The Truth of the Matter.

Maniac Cop gets a Spoiler Warning this issue.

Spice World gets the treatment over in Cinema Eaters. Yes, I watched and reviewed Spice World.

Hem and Rand go at it in a new Beyond Book Club.

And finally! Last but never least! Dustin interviews Juliana Finch!