Some tidbits….

• Beginning February 1st, I shall be teaching Writing for Comics at the Academy of Art University here in San Francisco.  I’ve subbed for the course a couple times in the past, so this should be a blast.  Really looking forward to inspiring and terrifying young minds.

• The still-as-yet-untitled 2010 Anthology is coming together nicely.  I’m on track to have it all assembled and off to the printer by the end of the month.  Plus, my Wondercon table has been confirmed for that first weekend of April.  Can’t recall the table number.  Will post it later.

• I have a lead on a production company that is in the market for a screenplay on a very specific subject matter, one that I actually wrote a couple years back.  I’ll be contacting them later today and we’ll see.  Either way, I’ll post what I find out.

• The Writers’ Guild of America announced its nominees for 2009, and some of it is just plain out there.  Nevermind that certain films - Inglourious Basterds and Up among them - were ineligible, owing to strict WGA rules.  Avatar for Original Screenplay?  The dialogue is alternately flat and ham-fisted, while the plot itself is mocked in all circles as a retread of everything from Dances With Wolves to Pocahontas.  At least they had the decency to call Star Trek an Adapted Screenplay - “based upon Star Trek, Created by Gene Roddenberry”.  Wait….  Star Trek?  Yep.  Got the nom.  Even the people that like the film freely admit that the dialogue and many of the ideas - Red Matter?  Really? - amount to shite.  What about District 9, whose smart storytelling made it a sleeper hit?  Yeah, it’s one of those ineligible titles.  All of that said, I applaud most of the other nominees….  (500) Days of Summer, Up in the Air, The Hangover, and A Serious Man were among the best films of the year.  I have yet to see some of the other nominees - The Hurt Locker and Crazy Heart are on my short list.