Crivens!

Saturday's Dominion-Post had a (syndicated) interview with Terry Pratchett, which inted crypticly that in addition to the recent Hogfather miniseries (which is excellent, BTW), a US director was working on a Discworld movie adaptation. Looking on Wikipedia shows which book it is: The Wee Free Men

Crivens! Pictsies! Psycho scottish smurfs with drunkenness and violence! A frypan of fear! And of course a traditional faerie story about a stolen baby brother.

I'll be looking forward to this. Almost as much as I'm looking forward to Coraline...

Hogswatch Night

Today is Hogswatchnight, on which the Hogfather in his red fur lined cloak and sleigh pulled by four wild boars visits children. Good children receive pork products. Bad children receive a bag of bloody bones. And children with broadband who don't care too much about intellectual property rights receive a download of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather...