CBR: When Words Collide - Mar 8, 2010

[CBR News]

For this week's WHEN WORDS COLLIDE, Tim spent some time chatting with Scott Snyder, the writer of the upcoming "American Vampire" and "Iron Man Noir," about literature, cinema, comics, and the art of teaching.


Full article here (http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25129).

[Mundungus]

I'm not a big vampire guy, but I am looking forward to American Vampire. There is a certain vitality about that I've been feeling from all the promotion and discussions about it that I've just become invested in picking it up.

So hopefully it doesn't stink. But Snyder seems like a capable guy, well-rounded, and passionate.

[rev sully]

if you have a YouTube link to your Comics History Slideshow? Wow...I'd love to see that.

That was a nice conversation, NPR-style.

[TimothyCallahan]

Sully -- the slideshow is for people who hire me to come in and lecture. I gots ta get paid, man!

[ssnyder1835]

for the chat Tim! Would love to know more about what you use in class, reading-wise, too.

[rev sully]

Sully -- the slideshow is for people who hire me to come in and lecture. I gots ta get paid, man!

I hear you...my new mantram is "money...money...money". For real. I promise to spend it all, lavishly on loved ones.

But again, thanks you two for a nice read. It's good to hear what books teachers like & read and also assign. I'm always carrying three books in my bag at once. And it's good to hear fiction suggestions because (liek most people) I probably have a biased & centric view on fiction; one foot in the fantastic being a comix lover but when it comes to books? Stephen King and Tom Clancy-like writers such as Brad Thor & NZ's Matthew Reilly come to mind. So I end up reading lots & lots of non-fiction...such as the brilliant & accessible "Don't Know Much..." Series by Kenneth C. Davis, On Food & Cooing by Harold McGee (the only cooking book I own for a 15+ year cook). The Tao of Willie Nelson was just great...I keep buying softcovers and giving them out, I got a hardcover for myself and is worthy of multiple rereads...like CoIE! ^_~ And I'm really an ordained minister so in addition to a healthy diet of Deepak Chopra audiobooks I also read lots of works on spirituality & religious history (for the record I'm a Closet Buddhist with Big Catholic Guilt, Indy). I've begun a regime of meditation in my life and its good to read about it first.

I ride Public Transportation, never have owned a Car, Boston-Boy born & bred. So I love to read. I got lots of time to. Always bring something to read...you never know when the bus is late or the train stops in the tunnel.

crea shaakti,