Comments | greygirlbeast: After noon already.

greygirlbeast

After noon already.

Jun 28, 2006 11:46

So, we made our way through the heat to Lenox Mall and the Apple Store, where Spooky's iBook stubbornly refused to repeat even one of its various psychotic behaviours for the nice geek at the Genius Bar. Which, on the one hand, was good news, as we've only just paid off the new logic board, but, on the other hand, meant we'd sort of wasted most of ( Read more... )

clive, sirenia, sonya, ernst haeckel, joey lafaye, unpredictable ibooks, ebay, swarming insects

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desperance June 28 2006, 17:50:23 UTC

Spooky made the unfortunate discovery that her newly dreaded hair has the power to extract winged insects from the air, rather the same way that that the baleen of whales extracts plankton from seawater. A great deal of flailing and chaos and slightly squished bugs ensued.

Oh, that is lovely. Well, not for Spooky, obviously, but I will feast out on the image tonight. I have never seen baleen in a simile before, and I want to know why...

coppervale June 28 2006, 17:58:51 UTC

I had exactly the same question about "Haeckel's Tale", and I think you're right.

i wish he'd do more shorts, too - although I love to become immersed in one of the books when I have a weekend off.

sovay June 28 2006, 18:19:58 UTC

I'm very glad you liked "The Depth Oracle." Thanks!

oneirophrenia June 28 2006, 19:10:10 UTC

I just read "Haeckel's Tale" last night, too, and was surprised that Clive Barker actually managed to write something worth reading again! He seemed to burn out with Imajica, the last truly great piece of work to come from his word processor, and since then...Ugh. Coldheart Canyon was so abysmally bad I didn't it even make it to the hundredth page.

But "Haeckel" is classic Barker: a tight, eerie narrative fueled by absolutely perverse sexuality. What a great little tale!

Now..the question is--where do I find a woman like that?

eldritch00 July 1 2006, 12:26:54 UTC

I haven't read it, but I saw the Masters of Horror adaptation which was downright nasty. And then my Mum entered the room, and my sister, and her boyfriend. My brother and I were verrry embarrassed.

laudre June 28 2006, 20:54:52 UTC

Looking at that picture of the moon, all I can think of is that, taken out of context, it'd end up as a picture of a UFO in about two, three months.