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May 29, 2007 17:04

Being offline has been wonderful in many respects; my blood pressure is nice and healthy now that I'm absent from the standard hysteria, my wordcount output is *waaaay* up, and I've been reading nearly as much as I should be. I've been dipping in and out of Warner's Trouble With Normal and Robb's Strangers, and gazingly longingly at Jameson's ( Read more... )

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inlovewithnight May 29 2007, 21:16:02 UTC
I'm glad you're productive and well. But I still miss you. :)

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glossing May 29 2007, 21:19:06 UTC
I miss you like Jason misses kickboxing Bruce, lovely. SO MUCH.

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unholyglee May 29 2007, 21:54:17 UTC
Ok, so what is Checkmate a crossover between? You're second person in as many days to say something about it, so now my interest is piqued.

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glossing May 31 2007, 20:47:30 UTC
It's crossing over with Outsiders, so Dick's motley crew is running missions with Sasha's even motlier one. :D

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likeadeuce May 29 2007, 21:57:04 UTC
I just picked up the first run of Ed Brubaker's Criminal series, where he just rambles about stuff on the back page. One of his comments is that the Internet is both a wonderful resarch and interactive tool and, as a drain on artistic energy, "just this side of hard drug use." I wouldn't go THAT far but I can relate to it.

And I'm so glad to hear the Chabon book is good. I read the first chapter in the bookstore and really dug it, but haven't bought a copy yet (am hoping my sister finishes hers over vacation and leaves it with me).

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glossing June 6 2007, 14:01:58 UTC
One of his comments is that the Internet is both a wonderful resarch and interactive tool and, as a drain on artistic energy, "just this side of hard drug use."
Brubaker is a wise young man, he certainly is. Which we both already knew, but it's cool to have yet more confirmation. *g*

I had no idea how draining online stuff could be until it went away and all of a sudden, my brain cleared. I'm reading books, and writing, and generally *chilling* as well as thinking in ways I don't think I've enjoyed in years.

I hope your sister finishes her copy of YPU *very* soon; I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of it.

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wickedprincess3 May 29 2007, 22:05:00 UTC
I'm in the middle of the new Chabon right now and so seriously just *enjoying* it that I know one of the reasons I'm going slow with it is becasue I want to be able to sit and just *absorb* it (well that and I'm trying to read two other books at the same time, stupid job. stupid shot attention span). The story just feels so *human* and real too, that the characters breathe at me ( ... )

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glossing June 6 2007, 14:03:48 UTC
one of the reasons I'm going slow with it is becasue I want to be able to sit and just *absorb* it
Oh, my, yes. I wanted to absorb it, but I also wanted more and more, and I got torn between the two impulses -- and then the ending just snuck up on me. It's not abrupt or anything, but it's also not like many novels, however good they are otherwise, where the ending speeds up to you. This just...closed, and I turned the page and blinked and felt bereft. *g*

ne of the first things I thought as I read it was "God, there will be like three people on my flist/that I EVEN KNOW who will be about this book because it lacks Tragic Gay Man Love Story and is so easily Jewish without Tragic Jew Story of Jewyness"
AHAHAHAHA! Even the New York Review of Books reviewer was taken aback by - and this really irked me - "how Jewish it was". Um. It's *Chabon*, you know?

Part of me (the small, mean, vicious part, that is) is glad there's little-to-no Tragic Gay Male angle to it, because while I'd love to read yuletide fics set in Sitka, I kind of don't want ( ... )

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caiusmajor May 29 2007, 23:03:12 UTC
I miss you!

OMG, Back Issue has Cap/Falc? I should go look that up. I picked up an their Very Special Green Issue awhile back for my OTHER seventiestastic OTP and liked that a lot.

I love Kirby's New Gods, but they often don't work very well when they're interacting with the DCU proper--most of either you have to play, say, Darkseid's, power way down (Superman could pin him to the Cosmic Wall? WTF?) or you get, as you say, pawns.

I wouldn't blame Kirby for the Monitor infestation in COUNTDOWN, though. That was all Wolfman/Perez and the original Crisis (and I didn't like it back then when there were only two of them, either).

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glossing June 6 2007, 14:05:35 UTC
I missed you, too! But I'm back now, mwahaha. *clings*

Back Issue's article on Cap and Falc is really good and thorough, too - the meat of it seems to be based on an interview with Gene Colan.

either you have to play, say, Darkseid's, power way down (Superman could pin him to the Cosmic Wall? WTF?) or you get, as you say, pawns.
*nod nod* They're just incommensurable, absolutely, with the rest of the universe. My blaming Kirby was off-hand, really; I agree that CoIE is to blame for the Monitor-stuff, but at least it was kind of coherent there.

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