janedavitt

The mailman just delivered a box for me from Amazon with an eclectic mix: two more Psych novels, Richard Burgi in 'Wheelmen', which I'm looking forward to and Volume 1 of Bill Patterson's new Heinlein bio, 'Robert Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century'

I was mildly stunned to pop into F-W last night and see that Bill's book is on there. Wow. Did not expect that at all. I haven't had time to read up on the kerfuffle, but Bill's a gentleman and a scholar and I can't wait to read this book. He's spent years writing it and he and Ginny Heinlein had the chance to talk a lot in the months before her death which is something most of Heinlein's other biographers didn't.

Bill was, incidentally, my first editor and publisher in his capacity as editor of The Heinlein Journal, which published a few articles by me back in the day. He started me thinking that hey, maybe I could write, and I'll always be grateful to him for that and many years of entertaining discussion on alt.fan.heinlein and our AOL chat group.

I can't find a way to save the trailer (flash) despite trying a few methods and programs, but if anyone hasn't seen it, it's here:

http://www.trailerfan.com/movie/wheelmen/trailer

I wrote to the people behind it last week and got this reply:

Hello,
Thank you for your interest in WHEELMEN. At this time no distribution has been finalized for the film in North America. As soon as we have additional information, we will update you.
Sincerely Yours,
Timberwolf Productions

My main reason for posting was that I just realized who else in in there with RB; Jim Beaver; Bobby from Supernatural.

Okay, what with being in two films with Jared, I'm now wondering why exactly RB hasn't been on SPN yet given how many shows he guests on.

I might have mentioned this before, but I want him as a mean and moody hunter with an interesting scar, wearing a battered leather jacket and calling the boys 'puppy' at LEAST once as he runs his thumb down the blade of his knife to check how sharp it is.

That's all.

Well. Maybe not all but if I carried on with my ideal plot, it'd get so far into wish fulfillment that I'd blush.

Though given that mpoetess just posted to say that Ben Browder is laying smoochies on Michael Shanks' mouth at Comic-Con (please let there be vid), maybe wishes do come true ;-)))