Nerding out, MBTI Style

So, I do apologize for all the Myers-Briggs talk last night! But since you all seemed interested, I thought I would post some links to explore type and personality.

For those of you who had miss last night's meeting, we had a great discussion about the book, followed by a great discussion about personality style. Some of us speak freely and others are more reserved - but we all want to contribute.

If you have not taken the Myers-Briggs, you can do a rough version here:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

As an official MBTI person I have to give the caveat that it is not the "real thing." Take it and compare your results to this page:

http://www.personalitytype.com/quiz.html

... to be sure it feels accurate. The second link also gives an interpretation of your four letter type.

I'm an INFJ, and the dominant type in the US as we discussed last night is an ESTJ.

“Call me Jonah. My parents did or nearly did. They called me John.”

 

vonnegut's fiction, minus one

I was told to avoid Slapstick for a first read, other than that, here are wikipedia links to Vonnegut's fiction. Shall we say vote on three?

• Player Piano (1952)
• The Sirens of Titan (1959)
• Mother Night (1961)
• Cat's Cradle (1963)
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; or, Pearls before Swine (1965)
• Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade (1969)
• Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (1973)
• Jailbird (1979)
• Deadeye Dick (1982)
• Galápagos (1985)
• Bluebeard (1987)
• Hocus Pocus (1990)
• Timequake (1997)

panels to stills

Since Malka posted about the trailer, I thought I'd link to the GEEKANERD blog (yes you are in the land of the truly dorky now) where they took a few stills from the trailer and compared them to panels from the comic. See lots of side by sides here and here. Although it looks like they kept pretty faithful to the comic, I'm glad I will have read it first.

movie trailer!

What do you guys think? Does it look like you imagined from the book?

New Frontiersman vs. Nova Express

What are you thoughts on these two newspapers and their political stances? What do they add to the story? Fire away!!!

Warner-Fox dispute over rights

Found this article on the New York Times website about the gritty details on the production rights for The Watchmen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/movies/20watc.html?ref=movies

annotated watchmen

For all your detailed Watchmen related needs, there is a super nerdy and detailed annotated site that goes over the graphic novel frame by frame.

Speaking of super nerdy:

i was told (at my bookclub) there'd be an HBO series...

Oh yeah, here are those other Sloane-y bits I was talking about:

According to a NY Observer article from June:

TV rights for I Was Told There'd Be Cake, the best-selling essay collection by Vintage publicist Sloane Crosley, have been sold to HBO for series development. This according to an announcement posted on the Publisher's Marketplace bulletin board over the weekend.

Also, the details on that Sloane diorama is over at Gawker, and it looks like they feature everyone's favorite essay about a bathroom mystery.

it's a blog holy smokes!

Internets!

Remember our first meeting? Seems so long ago now that we're a twice-met book club!