Ordinary Day

I just saw this post go up on tor.com, and most of it I was all “yeah yeah yeah whatever” about, until I got to the trailer at the bottom.

The one that involves Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in a movie set in the Old West with ALIENS. Money quote:

If you need one guy to send those aliens running back to space with their tentacles between their tentacles, it’s Daniel Craig. Basically, if you are engaged in any sort of endeavor and wish to achieve victory, you call Daniel Craig. He’s the English Steve McQueen, it’s almost an unfair fight. But considering that in the Old West, without even the A-bomb to halt the aliens’ malevolence, you need a bit of an edge. So get Daniel Craig on alien-ass-kicking detail, STAT.

And here’s the trailer-y goodness:

Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in the same movie? SIGN ME UP!

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So the fine ladies over at Smart Bitches have been doing a book club thing lately, and their latest title is Scoundrel, by Zoe Archer. They posted about it this morning, and as soon as I saw the blurb and the cover, I knew I was going to have to read it. To wit:

And okay, yeah, the fact that this guy is dressed like he mugged Malcolm Reynolds or perhaps Brendan Fraser’s character from The Mummy is going a long way to making him Relevant to My Interests, but really? More importantly? The simple fact that this dude is in fact DRESSED makes him infinitely sexier to me than all of the over-muscled tattooed guys wielding oversized swords that seem to be all over paranormal romance covers these days.

Plus, the plot sounds like great fun. As y’all know I’m in the middle of a massive Amelia Peabody re-read, and this fits in beautifully with that, with the promise of Historical And Also Paranormal Awesome. I have already yoinked a sample of this book down onto the Nookronomicon, just to see if the writing does in fact deliver on the promise of Awesome.

And I’m also swinging back to check out Book 1, whose cover hero apparently mugged Indiana Jones. ;>

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