in a HOT TUB--!

This probably isn't news to devoted Smallville fans -- and while I'm still a fan, yes, I'm not what I'd call devoted. I don't typically know about, say, Michael Rosenbaum's birthday or Tom Welling's upcoming movie unless I see an entry in somebody else's LJ, or an advertisement on TV. I don't go hunting spoilers or scripts. I'm a lowercase-f fan.

Anyway.

There's a series of DC-authorised novels based on the TV show (two series, actually, one that's targeted to a juvenile/teen/"young adult" audience and one that's... not). I've had bad experiences with these sorts of books, and besides, I'd rather read the fanfic, so I've been tangentially aware the books exist but wasn't much interested in them.

One of the forthcoming novels is called City, and was written by Devin Grayson (of Gotham Knights, Nightwing, and other comics-scripting fame). Here's part of what Devin had to say about the project in an interview back in November:
(yes, November, I did say this isn't exactly breaking news)

...you can imagine how bummed I was to find out that “adult series” merely means, “as opposed to the teen series line,” not “the XXX series,” as I was hoping. I did, however, manage to squeeze in a scene with Lex and Clark sharing a hot tub...

Yes. Sharing a hot tub. And if you know anything about Devin, you know hardly anybody is better at layering in the maximum amount of homoerotic subtext DC allows its house writers to get away with.

I may actually buy the damn book now. It's supposedly due out next month.

Pre-ordering for City available through amazon.com here.

Quote taken from this interview at The Comic Fanatic.com per that site's fair use guidelines.

google = god

If your days are like mine, you've probably already been to google.com today, and seen this. I'd hope you at least visit often enough to be familiar with the site's habit of periodically sprucing up its main page logo to note holidays and other current events.

Today, the logo's gone fractal.

I already can barely conceive of life without (or remember life before) Google. They don't need to keep making me love them more all the time...