Hairy Ticks of Dune Blog

SandChigger | August 16, 2009

In his latest “Pittsburgh and Cleveland” blahg post, is KJA telling us things are not as chummy between him and Brian Herbert as he has given us to believe in the past? After our signings in the Washington, DC, area Brian and I left for our next stop, Pittsburgh. Early morning, I headed off to [...]

Category: Heroes of Dune, KJA Blahg, McDune, Web gleanings | 15 Comments »
Tags: The Winds of Dune

SandChigger | August 15, 2009

On this post. I was just going to write that I had posted a reply to her reply about my question asking what she liked about The Hack’s books she has read but that she hadn’t passed it through yet (I received an error message when I posted telling me that the comment would be [...]

Category: Chigger Stuff, Heroes of Dune, KJA Books, Web gleanings | 11 Comments »
Tags: Shameless Shillage

SandChigger | August 14, 2009

Both KJA (on Twitter & his blog) and Byron (on the Dumb Novels BBS) are creaming themselves over this supposed “winning streak” that the miserable #15 debut by Jessica to The Winds of Dune is supposed to represent. boardadmin wrote: Israfil wrote: Interesting…How does it compare with PoD, Hunters or Sandworms for the first week? [...]

Category: Dune Novels BBS, Heroes of Dune, KJA Blahg, Web gleanings | 3 Comments »
Tags: The Usual Idiots, The Winds of Dune

SandChigger | August 13, 2009

I was about to post something flippant on Jacurutu just now about going over and joining Barnes & Noble so I could comment and post a review of Jessica to The Winds of Dune over there as well as on Amazon, but stopped myself when I thought about it a little more. I occasionally pop [...]

Category: Random Musings | 6 Comments »
Tags: KJASF, The Winds of Dune

SandChigger | August 10, 2009

Adam Whitehead at The Wertzone has published a review entitled “The Winds of Dune…or should that be hot air?” With too many bloggers showing their complete lack of literary taste or integrity and shilling on this piece of shit, with some even engaging in giveaways of the “swagsacks” and other crap (like this one, and [...]

Category: Heroes of Dune, McDune, Review/Dissection, Web gleanings | 18 Comments »
Tags: The Winds of Dune

SandChigger | August 8, 2009

I went to check out my Twitter feeds and found this in RealDune‘s: RealDune Nice article about Tweeters haunting @TheKJA … yours truly *ahem* gets a shout-out. Thx, chaps! http://tinyurl.com/ll5xqk about 4 hours ago from web That link takes you to an article on a site called Keeping The Door (“All you can eat sci-fi [...]

Category: Chigger Stuff, HToD.net Stuff, Web gleanings | 6 Comments »
Tags: Bug Score

SandChigger | August 6, 2009

DN BBS member Fang Zei posted a link to this article by Devin Faraci on CHUD.com: PETER BERG ALIENATES DUNE FANS BY MAKING HIS VERSION FUN Here’s the money shot quote from Berg: To me, I think my interpretation will feel significantly different from [the Lynch version] and the [SciFi] Channel miniseries that aired. I [...]

Category: New Dune Movie, WTF?, Web gleanings | 1 Comment »
Tags: Peter Berg is a moron