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The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book

September 9, 2006 / / 4 comments

Here’s the scoop.

The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book is in Barnes and Noble now, in a special printing done just for B&N. The second printing will be out September 30th.

The special B&N printing was a bit rushed. The second printing will have a lengthy index, missing from the B&N printing, and it corrects a number of typos and formatting glitches.

So I’m torn. I want you flooding B&N and buying tons of copies of TUJBFB. On the other hand, I want you to wait a couple of weeks more and buy the best possible version.

Sullying the Archetype

September 4, 2006 / / 18 comments

Here’s an absolutely terrific article about homophobia among a certain segment of Bond fans (whom the author amusingly terms “Bondamentalists”). (Hat tip to CBn for the find.)

The author rightly points out that a strong voice among Bond fans is disturbingly homophobic. I’d say they see Bond as an “ideal man” and they don’t want that “tainted.” (The anti-Craig freak out, by the way, is about an on-screen kiss between Craig’s straight character and another man.)

During the endless post-Die Another Day, pre-Craig chatter about casting a new Bond, the name Rupert Everett came up many times, and each time, a massive wave of homophobic diatribes was unleashed.

“I’m not homophobic,” they tend to say, “It’s just ‘not Bond’.” Except we’re not talking about Teh Gay on-screen, just in the private life of the star. Who is also, yo fanboys, ‘not Bond.’ So yeah, it’s homophobic. Different than ordinary run-of-the-mill, I’m a snotty teenager who says disgusting things and sometimes beats people up homophobia (which is, I think, mostly what John Ruch encountered on the homophobic anti-Craig site to which I will not link).

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I found something even less fun

September 2, 2006 / / 3 comments

You know how indexing isn’t fun? Turns out re-doing the index to put words and phrases into categories is even less fun.

Allow me to point out that this is a forty-two page index. And if I remembered what all these fucking things referred to I wouldn’t need the index.

Later.

So what’s going on?

August 17, 2006 / / 3 comments

Well I had an absolutely amazing time in the Bahamas. I saw sites that would make any self-respecting Bond fan drool in his shoes. (Which, not a pretty picture.)

I have a firm intention of writing it all up and making you drool. I do. But then other shit happened.

So first, my book didn’t arrive in time to bring on the cruise. So the printer shipped it to Carnival so that it would be there on arrival. I have the packing slip; it says “Deborah Lipp–Arriving 8/14/06”. Not a lot of margin for error there.

Only there was error.

So my box of books is sailing the seas, having been placed on some other ship. I haven’t seen it. No one got a copy. Carnival has “opened a file” for me. You betcher ass they have.

Meanwhile, this box is from the first printing. Second printing goes out in two weeks and I’m working 3–4 hours a night on indexing and final edits. The day job is unusually busy, the night work is keeping me up until 1 a.m. I’m too old for this shit. I haven’t turned on the TV since I got home.

And tomorrow I leave for my next gig.

So, sorry for the light blogging.

Keep your terror alert off my travel plans

August 10, 2006 / / 6 comments

The British police thwarted a terror plot. Yay the British police.

U.S. airports are glowing a sickly orange color.

I’m flying to Miami at 9:30 tomorrow morning to meet up with my cruisin’ crew.

So now I’m totally stressed. Because I have to leave before 7 a.m. to get to the airport, so if the terror alert is still in place when I go to bed…? I don’t know either.

Oy.

(Cross-posting…fun for the whole family.)

You know what’s not fun?

August 5, 2006 / / 2 comments

Indexing.

What indexing involves is going through every page of a manuscript and deciding what goes in. Is this word/phrase interesting? Too obscure? Too obvious (thereby generating a zillion page hits and being utterly useless)? Do I need things in the Index that are also in the Table of Contents? Did I already index that word? Should I write it down again anyway just in case? Will a reader be annoyed to look up that word and turn to the page and realize it’s just an aside? Will a reader be annoyed to look up that word and not find it? Will a reader ever in a million years care about that phrase?

And there’s lots of laborious typing and my shoulder hurts.

I am indexing The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book right now. So if I don’t post much, please forgive me. Also, please feel sorry for me.

Sad news for Bond fans

July 30, 2006 / / One comment

The Pinewood 007 Stage has been destroyed by fire.

When it was created for the filming of The Spy Who Loves Me, and was at the time the world’s largest soundstage. It was needed to accomodate the interior of the supertanker; which had two enormous tankers within it. This was used in the movie’s climax; a scene that was filmed with the help of Stanley Kubrick.

Pinewood Studios named the soundstage “The 007 Stage” in honor of this amazing event. And now, I guess, it’s gone.

Holy cats! Now THAT’s a cover

June 24, 2006 / / 8 comments

Brand new, hot off the presses, here’s the new cover art for The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book.

Cover art

Which James Bond are you?

June 23, 2006 / / 8 comments

Your results:
You are Timothy Dalton

Timothy Dalton
59%
Daniel Craig
49%
Roger Moore
42%
George Lazenby
33%
Pierce Brosnan
31%
Sean Connery
17%
A more realistic, gritty and angry James Bond. Suave but serious.


Click here to take the James Bond Personality Test

A movie prop worth having

June 22, 2006 / / 4 comments

If I had thirty-three grand to blow, this would be a good way to blow it.

The steel-rimmed derby used by the villainous Oddjob in the James Bond movie “Goldfinger” has been auctioned for $33,600.

…The hat was from the estate of Harold Sakata, who played the villain in the 1964 Bond movie. The buyer, Anthony Pugliese III, is a collector of Bond memorabilia in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He wants to display the hat in a pop culture museum…

One of the great movie props of all time; up there with the ruby slippers.

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