Ramblings of Jeff Somers, author
And we’re back … with another installment of “Ask Jeff Anything”. In this week’s turgid episode, we tackle the question of whether any living being can possibly drink as much alcohol as I claim to on a daily basis. So, grab a beverage and watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9voQ13y9aM
Now I’m hungover.
After a hiatus imposed by all the More Shit I Gotta Do, we’re back with answers to your questions! And by “we’re” I mean “I am” in the royal sense. Because I’m the king of rock, there is none higher, Sucker MC’s should call me sire. To burn my kingdom, you must use fire, I won’t stop rockin’ till I retire. And also, look for a quick cameo by Spartacus the Cat, incensed that I spent a few minutes paying to attention to something that is not him. Little bastard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVANxAaBoc0
Holla!
Hola: Here’s another turgid episode of Ask Jeff Anything, this time with a question Patty Blount regarding my not-so-secret computer geekdom aspirations. Like most of my other aspirations, these lay in a thick carpet of ashes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITFY2JcE_Bg
More questions, please. Remember: Ask me anything!
You can blame Kari L. Dell for this one: Today’s Ask Jeff Anything video is just me playing guitar. You might think no one in their right mind would ask for such a thing, but like Mongo, Jeff is merely pawn in game of life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7EzdKHzjRc
Huzzah!
Well, after an absence of some weeks I’m back rooting about in the mailbag for questions, and got a good one for today involving Time Travel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA2DYSF5sz8
As always: Keep the questions coming! I’ll get to them all eventually.
I had some time on my hands and another question in my inbox, so here’s another question answered. Knowledge: It’s what’s in my head.
Here we go again: This time, my fellow scribe Sean Ferrell (author of the disturbingly good Numb) submits a question clearly designed to provoke an alcoholic rage:
Now, if you’ll excuse me JEFF ANGRY JEFF GO SMASH.
Well, mercifully, Orbit has posted the final hunk of video showing the fiasco Phil Palmer and I took part in. You can view it here:
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/09/10/somers-vs-palmer-when-authors-collide-final-part/
I’ve been drinking heavily since the filming process began, and crying jags are not uncommon. Okay, niether of those things were ever uncommon, but still. It was traumatic. Can’t wait to see what Phil has to say about these final chapters on his blog.
I can’t even watch any more. Go to the Orbit Books site if you must watch.
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/09/09/somers-vs-palmer-when-authors-collide-part-4/
My erstwhile documentary partner, Philip Palmer, posted this to his blog yesterday:
“I confess that I may have slightly misunderstood the original brief. I remember being told at one point that Jeff and I were going to compare the relative merits (toughness/sexiness/kickassitude) of our two protagonists, namely the intellectually brilliant and astonishingly physically powerful Version 43, and the rather dim-witted always-getting-beaten-up Avery Cates. I took the view that it’s better to be objective and scientific about such questions; so I took the liberty of recruiting the world authority in such matters, Dr Paul Bostock (Professor in Protagonism and Genre Conflict at the Heinlein University, Colorado) to argue, basically, that my protagonist is better than Jeff’s protagonist.
In retrospect, perhaps I was over-achieving a bit there. So once again Jeff – a million apologies! I abase myself, etc etc.”
Can you believe this guy? You might see why the whole project devolved into a shouting match between us. To see the unholy mess collapse right before your eyes, you can check Orbit’s web site, where they’re posting more videos of our failed experiment. Here’s parts two and three:
PART TWO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubxGs5D0lfo
PART THREE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQ_quCAcdM