Words, Words, Words...
Guess what? I like to write. Here's my contribution to the hundred-million-typing-monkeys anarchy of the Web. As ever, everything here is property of Christian Sauvé, ask before stealing, yadda-yadda-yadda. You're welcome.
1. A Few Reviews...
When a few reviews eventually become more than four hundred pages of reviews, it's time to move them to their own section.
2. Science Fiction
You either love it or you don't...
- World Fantasy Convention 2001 Report: November 1-4, 2001, Montréal: Your reporter braves embarrassment to bring you a gutter-class report of a world-class convention. A similar French report was published in Solaris magazine.
- World Science-Fiction Convention 2003 (Torcon3) Report: August 29th-September 1st, 2003, Toronto: The Worldcon! The biggest literary science-fiction event of the year! In Canada! Read all about it!
- World Science-Fiction Convention 2004 (Noreascon4) Report: September 2nd-6th, 2004, Boston: A real Worldcon! Bigger! Better! Read all about it!
- World Science-FIction Convention 2006 (L.A.Con IV) Report: SF fans and professionals mingling away from the hot South California sun.
- Science Fiction and the Public Service: A bibliographical essay describing how the public sector is usually represented in SF.
- Alternate Hugos: My take on the Hugos from 1951 to 2006, with plenty of alternate choices.
3. Movies!
Moving pictures producing unmemorable words. Don't miss my movie reviews section, as well as my film criticism primer.
- Top-100 Movies: A very informal list of some favorite (and not-so-favorite) movies.
- How to get Free Movie Tickets: A quick guide to obtaining advance preview tickets without breaking the law.
- 1997
- Movies of Summer'97: The Essay: Another summer, another batch of high-budget low-brow motion pictures.
- Movies of Summer'97: The Parody: A spoof of most of Summer'97's blockbusters: AIR FORCE ONE, THE FIFTH ELEMENT, MEN IN BLACK, etc...
- 1998
- Movies of Summer'98: The Essay: Yet another summer, yet another huge compendium of thoughts about movies.
- Movies of Summer'98: The Parody: Back for more fun: ARMAGEDDON, GODZILLA, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, etc...
- Films of 1998: Top Ten list, video choices, etc...
- 1999
- Movies of Summer'99: The Essay: Hollywood doesn't give up, and neither do I.
- Movies of Summer'99: The Parody: The hits just don't stop coming: BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, PHANTOM MENACE, WILD WILD WEST, etc...
- Films of 1999: Top Ten list, video choices, Ottawa-area theaters, etc...
- 2000
- Films of 2000: Top-10, Bot-5, video choices, Ottawa-area theaters, etc...
- 2001
- Films of 2001: Top-10, Bot-5, video choices, Ottawa-area theaters, etc...
- 2002
- Films of 2002: Top-10, Bot-5, video choices, Ottawa-area theaters, Oscar picks, etc...
- An explanation for SOLARIS: Bemused by the George Clooney/Steven Soderbergh film? No more!
- 2003
- Films of 2003: Top-10, Bot-5, video choices, Ottawa-area theaters, Oscar picks, etc...
- 2004
- Films of 2004: Top-10, Bot-5, video choices, Ottawa-area theaters, Oscar picks, etc...
4. NaNoWriMo Blogs
Is it possible to write a novel in thirty days? Why, yes.
- 2002 edition (Novel #1):
- Writing: November 2002 daily journal
- Editing: March/April 2003 sort-of-daily journal
- Polishing: February/April 2004 rather-daily journal
- 2003 edition (Novel #2):
- Writing: November 2003 daily journal
- Editing: Coming soon...
- 2004 edition (Novel #3):
- Writing: November 2004 daily journal.
- 2005 edition (Novel #4):
- Writing: November 2005 daily journal.
5. Random Stuff...
Some writings that don't fit anywhere else.
- New York 2001: My trip to the Big Apple, June 29-July 2 2001.
- Los Angeles 2006: Two days and a half in sunny L.A.
- Losing Weight: Yes you can! I did, and it was fun!
- Laser Vision: One geek's less-than-perfect experience with laser eye surgery.
- The Amazon Bookmarklets: A fun tool for bibliophiles.
- Thoughts on Web Design: A few irreverent hints and pointers on efficient, simple, content-rich web design. Part of a much larger coda constantly-in-progress.
- Self-Imposed Privacy on the Internet: A rather paranoid essay on what shouldn't be included in personal web sites, among many other things.
- To Blog or not to Blog: A few thoughts on why this web site isn't a blog. Somewhat invalidates a few things said in the previous essay.
- Being Canadian: An essay of the joys and pride of being a Canadian citizen.
- A Usenet Primer: If you're not aware of Usenet, you're missing out on some of the best the Internet has to offer. Check here for details.
- 100 books of the nineties: A small sample of good books published between 1990 and 1999.
- If you can read French, you can (in addition of being able to read French) read more of my writings on the French version of my Web Site.