This is exactly what satire is supposed to be: cutting, yet light.Robillard is a guy who looks at the world around him, really understands what motivates people and then completely skewers it. Nearly every paragraph is a punchline, and if it isn’t funny yet, it will be by the end of the chapter.
You can read […]
Tonight I’ll be reading at the Red Door, a bar/lounge in Portsmouth NH, to help inaugurate the new RiverRun reading series, Books and Booze. There will even be a superhero-themed drink for the evening.
You can read more about the event in the Portsmouth Herald.
Today I’m reading in NYC, at McNally Jackson Books, and then will retire to a local bar to rid the world of some fierce Scottish stout. According to custom, I have no idea yet what I’m reading. You can leave your thoughts below in the comments… if you dare.
I’m mostly writing this sentence so I’ll […]
Not The Wire involving surveillance, canny drug dealers and corrupt cops - The Wire in Portsmouth, NH.
He may be endowed with an arsenal of superpowers that would make Spiderman jealous, but Captain Freedom has problems.
It’s not just that nefarious mutant supervillains are constantly trying to exterminate him. His crime-fighting career is going down the tubes, […]
You might have thought that the Phoenix was destroyed at the end of the final X-Men movie, which had the subtitle (let’s ram this franchise into the ground in a way that makes Howard the Duck look good).
But no. The Phoenix is back, masquerading as a Portland newspaper, and providing an interview with G. Xavier […]
The good people at Cracked.com have published my story detailing the anticipation a movie Fanboy goes through while waiting for their favorite movie, the Watchmen, to come out.
A friend forwards an email from a temp in the legal department of DC Comics: “They’re making a movie of Watchmen. Nothing confirmed.” He pulled it off one […]
Get Your Pitchforks and Torches Ready: tonight, in Salem Massachusetts, home of the BBQ Witch-fry-wich, I’m reading at Cornerstone Books.
No offense to our Wiccan-American friends.
It’s Friday the 13th, and a book reading is a great way to get prepped for the new Friday the 13th movie, about a young, sensitive Jason Vorhees, who tries to […]
My sources (self googling) just informed me that Captain Freedom is on the bestseller list at Powell’s. Above, of course, The Chronicles of Theophanes, so yes, my life story is more successful than the life of a Byzantine monk. As it should be.
Powell’s of course is in the River City, aka Stumptown, […]
Captain Freedom will be in Boston tomorrow at Borders, at 1 PM sharp. A very nice gentleperson from the Beantown Bloggery can tell you his experience.
BORDERS
10-24 School St. Boston, MA 02108
617-557-7188
I will be reading tonight at the Brookline Booksmith, in Brookline’s Coolidge Corner.
BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH
279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
(617) 566-6660
7 PM sharp.
The Boston Herald has some nice things to say about it.
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