January was a good month for “The Always Insightful Insights of Trent Hergenrader.”
Taking a look at the stats shows that the website set a record for the number of pages viewed and visits this month and is second in every other category (hits, files and KBytes) to the month of May when brother Troy had [...]
So my story “From the Mouths of Babes” is now available in the March 2006 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. We went to Borders on Saturday night to return some books and sure enough, it was there on the shelf. Available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and many fine book stores nationwide.
Two [...]
We’re All Going to Die.
The funny thing was I remember articles in college ca. 1996 that were already years old saying that you need to halt global warming before warning signs start to show because by then it would be too late. Here we are ten years later and we’re still having discussions about [...]
In case you missed it, the US Men’s National Team (or rather their B team) thrashed Norway (or rather their B team) 5-0, led by a Taylor Twellman hat-trick. I watched it and here are some random thoughts:
I don’t know where ESPN2 play-by-play announcer Dave O’Brien came from but I’d be more than willing [...]
Sick lately. Stayed home from work Friday. Unable to form complete sentences.
I wrote a fairly lengthy post on Stephen King’s Dark Tower series yesterday but the cat jumped up on the table, hit the Back button on the mouse and wiped it all out. Sadly, I think it made a fair bit [...]
I did a little searching around and found out that “Beowulf and Grendel” is actually an indie movie. The big budget “Beowulf” is currently in production with Robert Zemeckis directing and will be feature lots of computer animation a la “The Polar Express.”
On an up note, it appears as though Grendel will actually be [...]
My biggest writing problem, by far, is cleaning up the first draft. Tonight I took out a Clarion story (”The X-Ray Style” for those of you playing at home) that I really want to send out sometime soon, read the crits (cue waves of nostalgia,) and then started thinking about how I needed to [...]
I don’t like to blog about politics very often but sometimes I can’t help myself.
My father-in-law forwards me a lot of chain email, much of which is politically conservative in nature. Just for kicks, I run most of these past either TruthorFiction.com or Snopes.com and find, to absolutely no surprise, that they’re almost always [...]
O.G. homeslice Aaron pointed me to the Beowulf and Grendel movie website featuring a two-minute trailer. Here’s my timed reaction:
01-05 seconds: Awesome!
05-30 seconds: Suspicion
30-65 seconds: Huh?
66-99 seconds: (lamentable sigh)
Here’s a synopsis of the film:
Synopsis:
Beowulf & Grendel is the harrowing fantasy adventure tale of a Norse warrior hero BEOWULF (Gerard Butler) pitted against the monstrous [...]
I’m going to add emphasis the article below and boil off most of the rest of the story:
Pa. student humiliated over Broncos jersey
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (AP) – A 17-year-old high school student said he was humiliated when a teacher made him sit on the floor during a midterm exam in his ethnicity class – for [...]