Guillermo del Toro has apparently written a screenplay for a film adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft story At the Mountains of Madness.

I love del Toro.  I think he and Lovecraft both share this eery, hallucinagenic genius that would prove to be a good fit.  I would bet that this movie will kick some serious ass.  If it’s ever made.

I’m addicted to Neil Gaiman’s new collection of short stories, Fragile Things.

“Beetles,” said Professor Mandalay. “I once calculated that, if a man such as myself were to eat six different species of beetle each day, it would take him more than twenty years to eat every beetle that has been identified. And over that twenty years enough new species of beetle might have been discovered to keep him eating for another five years. And in those five years enough beetles might have been discovered to keep him eating for another two and a half years, and so on, and so on. It is a paradox of inexhaustibility. I call it Mandalay’s Beetle. You would have to enjoy eating beetles, though,” he added, “or it would be a very bad thing indeed.”

That’s from a story called Sunbird.  There’s another story in the book, called A Study In Emerald – check out the coolest short story I’ve ever read – read it or hear it.