We’re doing a cartoon! Or “animated series” as the sophisticated people say. The cartoon will cover the same content as the regular blog and the regular comic, which is to say almost nothing. I don’t have any idea what to cover except for opinion pieces and the only things I care to write are critical reviews of books. I also fancy the occasional piece of consumer advocacy. But mostly books. Other media aren’t worth it really - go ahead change my mind.
Not really a challenge, I change my mind all the time.
Additional upcoming events: Anne Rice and the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov. Yes! And yes the post will include them both, as if they had anything to do with each other. As if their fan bases had a single person, other than myself, in common. Nope, I’m the only one. The only human alive or dead who loves them both. And I’m the only one who can bring them together in one glorious crash up: Asimov’s galactic empire finds future earth, and it’s all Anne Rice vampires! And robots. And robot vampires! And spirits! And mind control institutes. I really feel like they make a great couple. But I’ll have to read them again. It’s extremely important. I need to bring them together inside my head before I do it on the blog page. I feel like it’s a pity they didn’t get together, except that he was twenty years older in actuality. So in an ideal world I would nudge Asimov’s birthday ten years later and I would nudge Anne Rice’s birthday ten years earlier. Also in the spirit of godlike reality adjustments I would not let Anne Rice’s daughter die at a tragic young age. I just realized that Rice was her married name, but that’s okay. These are groovy people and I feel that they’d all be cool with a triad. Stan Rice seemed like a fairly liberal guy. I mean, he was a poet.
So besides all that, the whole point of this alternate timeline would be the mashup, the fantastic combination of Asimov’s fussy and cerebral Foundation Series with Anne Rice’s fleshy and embarrassing Vampire Series. As diametrically opposed as two storylines could be. Asimov basically wrote his stories as a long intellectual debate between two scholarly personalities, with a few intrusions from reality, some occasional warships and soldiers or random enemy NPCs. Rice actually wrote the phrase “beware the idea” in one of her books. I mean, I like it a lot, but you could not ask for a more opposite statement to Asimov’s oeuvre.
But in this hypothetical timeline they’re in love and age appropriate and really digging each other on all levels, one night the three of them, after an all day binge of booze, sex, and weed, come up with a space vampire epic, with poetry by Stan. Or maybe it’s a rock opera. A galactic empire ruled by vampires, headquartered on earth. Fighting a Foundation of psychically powered witches.
Obviously in order to fully delve into this subject I’ll have to re-read some Asimov and the Anne Rice books. I’ve already begun reading his last Foundation book; “Foundation and Earth,” and it’s already annoying me. Well, truth: I finished reading it before I finished writing this post. And I forgot that Foundation and Earth sucks - or I should say that I don’t like it, maybe other people like it. Now I really need to re-read the other Foundation books to get a better bead on the series for the mashup, which I’ve decided that Anne will be writing, with input from Isaac. And she needs to tell him that the mashup will not be used as a means to ram his thesis on multi-organismic super-beings down the reader’s throat. Like he did with Foundation and Earth. And the ending to Foundation and Earth, it’s just awful. I don’t why I chose that one for re-read. I should have read the old trilogy and then Foundation’s Edge, which was my favorite. But maybe I’ll change my mind after I read that one too.
I’m re-reading all these in order to do the mashup, to join these disparate philosophies together in a glorious mess. I need the books by Asimov and by Rice to ferment together in my head.
Wait, why do I have the feeling that this mashup is already an anime? I’ll have to research space vampire anime before I get sued.
Anyway, we’re doing a cartoon!
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