David Duchovny's Pens Next Novel
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If Holy Cow and its impending musical special aren't enough for you, then you're in luck. David Duchovny's second novel will be headed to shelves next year! Bucky F&%@ing Dent "is a story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, and grapples with the urgent need to find our story in an age of irony and artifice".
The book will be released on April 5th, 2016. Very much in line with "The Unnatural", David seems to be keeping with his love of the game:
When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty, is dying of lung cancer, he immediately moves back into his childhood home, where a whirlwind of revelations ensues. The browbeating absentee father of his youth is living to make up for lost time, but his health dips drastically whenever his beloved Red Sox lose. And so, with help from a crew of neighborhood old-timers and the lovely Mariana--Marty's Nuyorican grief counselor--Ted orchestrates the illusion of a Sox winning streak, enabling Marty and the Red Sox to reverse the Curse of the Bambino and cruise their way to World Series victory. Well, sort of.
You can pre-order a copy of Bucky F&%@ing Dent now on Amazon.
Howard Gordon Weighs in on Fandom, X-Files Revival
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Former X-Files writer and producer Howard Gordon is a busy guy these days with Homeland and some new projects underway. In an article posted at Den of Geek, he spoke with Matt Allair (also known from X-Files Lexicon) about The X-Files, fandom, and what he's working on currently.
Gordon found great success post-X-Files and told Allair that the show was "a formative experience in [his] education as a writer and a producer. I really cut my teeth on that show and discovered what was possible on television."
He also spoke about the evolution of fandom and how the many choices viewers have today makes for a more fractured audience than when The X-Files was in its heyday in the '90s.
While Gordon is not involved in the current revival, he didn't rule out involvement in the future. He told Allair "If Chris asked me and time permitted, I would jump at the chance to be involved in The X-Files. I’m really looking forward to seeing what Chris, Jim, Glen, and Darin have come up with."
For the latest on Gordon's current projects you can find Matt Allair's full interview here.
FanArt Wednesdays - Ian Wiesen
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This week’s chosen artist is Ian Wiesen from Texas. You can find his work on Tumblr and Twitter.
Here's a little about Ian:
1 . When did you become an X-Phile?
Around March 2015. It's strange that The X-Files has existed almost my entire life and I am just discovering it this year. I can't believe how much I was missing! My brother was the one who was getting into it on Netflix at first, he'd been watching it and I'd join him. I was a "fan" for the first couple seasons and the episode I realized I was really becoming more of a "phile" when I saw "Quagmire". After that episode I knew I was deeply invested in the characters and show. As we progressed in our binge-watching, before I knew it we finished season 5 and it had us driving all over town looking for a DVD copy of "Fight the Future"! Then I definitely knew I was an X-Phile.
2. What is the first episode you watched?
"Pilot", which I saw earlier this year. The story of how I started watching The X-Files: I was watching a terrible movie on Netflix called Killer Mermaid with my family, and there was this music in it that sounded somewhat like the X-Files theme. So we started talking about The X-Files and decided to start watching it just to see what it was all about, and in that moment my life was changed forever, ha. It's possible I've seen an episode in the past that I'm not conscious of but I was only 3 when The X-Files started airing. Not to mention I was absolutely terrified of aliens as a kid so if I so much as heard the theme song on TV I would not want to be in the room. I do remember seeing The Simpsons' X-Files crossover episode when it originally aired and even that scared me. Thankfully I've gotten over it. :P