I was talking with @zaboots a few months ago, about the fact that we've both slowed way down, in terms of reading printed books (ebooks included). Meaning, we weren't reading much lately, or at all, really ( Read more... )

This post of Seth Godin's, The Places You Go talks about how, very often, emotions are like rooms in our mental houses -- they are places we seek out because we want to be in that state, rather than something that happens to us.

Being a marketing philosopher, he of course connects it to brands, and mentions that the best brands figure out how to ( Read more... )

As I'm listening to Pillars of the Earth, I get really involved in it. I'm all, "Oh no! Will Friar Philip ever build his cathedral?? Will Lady Aliyena ever find peace and restore honour to her family name?" Though I often get involved in books and movies like that, this is an especially gripping book, and I like it more and more the farther into it ( Read more... )

So! The book, Palimpsest, that I was raving about?

It comes out today! As you've probably gathered in that post, I think it's a stunningly, ridiculously, achingly good book. It is one of my all-time favorite novels (the other one being probably Little, Big by John Crowley).

Grab it! Check out the Palimpsest art & merchandise page@! Come to a ( Read more... )

Who can resist 'if operating systems were like airplanes'-type comparison lists? yuki_onna and I certainly can't. Therefore:
Programming Languages Are To Literary Schools As...

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We went to an Introvert Party at kythryne's house this weekend. Those are a profoundly good idea. An introvert party is where people get together, bring some craft or project to work on ( Read more... )

yuki_onna's entry on Jeff Vandermeer's blog (she's guest-blogging there this week), titled Have I Ever Told You About My Love/Hate Relationship with Confessional Poetry? is fantastic, because aside from the fact that I cracked up reading it, it touches upon my favorite subject ( Read more... )

jordansc and I were talking the other day, trying to think of examples of genuinely great steampunk novels.

And, while neither of us has exhaustive knowledge of recent scifi and fantasy, we couldn't think of anyAll of the great examples that we came up with were somehow of a visual nature -- films, graphic novels, visual art, sculptures and physical ( Read more... )

Ok, so the Carriage House is my new favorite venue. The cozy be-lofted Tudor style carriage house was perfect for all the artwork, and just big enough to fit everybody, and there was this gorgeous grape arbor outside (if it was only warmer, we could probably have held it outside even).

That's where we had the art show / In The Cities of Coin and ( Read more... )

Here's the thing. If you're at all local or free this weekend, you should come to the In the Cities of Coin and Spice Cleveland Launch party.

It's at 7-10pm this Saturday Nov 27th, at The Carriage House (which is behind Fine Points).
12620 Larchmere Blvd
Cleveland OH, 44120
216-229-6644

There's gonna be live readings, and a performance by S.J. ( Read more... )

Back from a trip to Tennessee (part of a Valentines day pressie for Cat). The last four or so of my days featured ( Read more... )