New Year's Resolutions

As I'm off for the holidays (and currently wetting myself with fear at the thought of man-propelled flight), I thought I'd leave all three of you with a few resolutions I hope to achieve.

1. Read Moby Dick. I've got a copy, but I've never read the seminal masterpiece of maritime drama.

2. Reread old favourites. I read a lot of books, but I think I should return to visit some old friends, such as Garp, Quoyle, and Ignatius.

3. Get back to running. Time to start moving my body in a forward direction again.

4. Write. For a guy publishing a novel in three months, my literary output is upsettlingly negligible.

5. Go back to vegetarianism. Time for one glorious meat-filled holiday blowout, then back to a more healthy, guilt-free lifestyle.

I'll see you all in 2007. I wish a happy non-denominational family fun-fest gift-giving day to you all.

Yeah, I find this funny, and yeah, I'm going to hell

No apologies from me. This is hilarious.

There's No Way I'm Saving That Guy

All right. I realize I am supposed to be all-merciful, universally loving, the Light and the Way and everything, but even a divine avatar of the Supreme Being's loving grace has His limits.

The perils of adapting great fiction into film

Just a quick note about a nice article from Slate, outlining the development hell that has surrounded John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces. As for myself, maybe it's just one of those novels that should never be adapted. Sure, Fight Club worked, and The English Patient, but what about Catch-22, Breakfast of Champions, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? All wonderful novels, all slightly tarnished by the well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempts to both capture the essence of the book while creating a visual interpretation of the unfilmmable elements.

Read the article in its entirety here.

How people find me

I promise to get to the all-important continuation of the Shelf Monkey epic, but I thought I'd waste a little time instead.

I've noticed other blogs do this, so I took note of the various search terms that have brought people to my site.

Here are the last few, some obvious, some unusual:

Shelf Monkey
Corey Redekop
shelf Monkey Blog
monkey blogger
cumyn
"Rosellen Price" and homepage
"taras grescoe"
brown's requiem ellroy plot
All This Town Remembers
trapped on zombie island
ecw press spring 2007
and...(wait for it)...naked calenders!

All make sense, to a point, but naked calenders?

More Proof I Exist! Even better than the ISBN numbers!

Just a quick note, as proof positive that I have not been lying to you not myself about the upcoming publication of Shelf Monkey.

If you'll have a look at the above title, or here, you'll find the bare bones but accurate Chapters.ca promotional page concerning, well, me.

I have also received the Official ECW Press Spring Catalogue, and will link to the PDF pages as soon as I figure out how.