Happy Valentine's Day!
Yeah, Valentine's is not until Monday, but Monday is going to be full of things that suck so I'm taking mine early, on my free day.
Sargon and I had an amazingly quiet lunch out today. The food was nothing more complicated than a burger and onion rings, but I convulsed in ecstasy just the same. We have some mighty fine burger joints in this town, I have to say, and nothing beats a burger when that's all you're in the mood for.
After, we went to Borders where he bought me my Valentine's present - books two and three of the Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey. I've been reading the first book for two days, and can barely peel my eyes from the pages long enough to shovel food into my mouth.
To everyone who told me to read them, I just want to make you aware:
You were right. You were SO right. Assuming Carey doesn't screw things up at any point, this may get shortlisted for favorite fantasy series. Carey can write her ass off, her world is incredibly vivid and fascinating and beautiful, her characters are superlatively cool, and some of them are so hot I keep smelling burning hair. (Is anything sexier than an incredibly gorgeous, incredibly dangerous guy who has taken a vow of chastity? Thought not.)
Note: anyone who posts anything even remotely spoiler-y will be banhammered. For once, I have managed to get hold of a series without knowing Jack-fuck-all about how it ends.
In other news, Sargon, as a music reviewer, got an advance copy of the new Kamelot album, The Black Halo. I just spent the last hour shitting gold-plated nickels over how cool it is. If you are into metal (real metal, not the hardcore stuff they play on the radio), you need Epica, the album that came before, and you need The Black Halo.
Come on. It's Goethe's Faust told as a three-part concept album (Halo is part II). Only unlike practically every other concept album ever made, it doesn't suck. Kamelot are an incredible band, and they just keep getting better.
So, I had a foodgasm, then an eargasm. And I have incredibly well-written, intelligent, plot-heavy books to read, which will no doubt lead to multiple bookgasms.
And, in about an hour, I have a writers' meeting to go to. So I must take my leave, lest I smother you with attention.
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Sargon and I had an amazingly quiet lunch out today. The food was nothing more complicated than a burger and onion rings, but I convulsed in ecstasy just the same. We have some mighty fine burger joints in this town, I have to say, and nothing beats a burger when that's all you're in the mood for.
After, we went to Borders where he bought me my Valentine's present - books two and three of the Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey. I've been reading the first book for two days, and can barely peel my eyes from the pages long enough to shovel food into my mouth.
To everyone who told me to read them, I just want to make you aware:
You were right. You were SO right. Assuming Carey doesn't screw things up at any point, this may get shortlisted for favorite fantasy series. Carey can write her ass off, her world is incredibly vivid and fascinating and beautiful, her characters are superlatively cool, and some of them are so hot I keep smelling burning hair. (Is anything sexier than an incredibly gorgeous, incredibly dangerous guy who has taken a vow of chastity? Thought not.)
Note: anyone who posts anything even remotely spoiler-y will be banhammered. For once, I have managed to get hold of a series without knowing Jack-fuck-all about how it ends.
In other news, Sargon, as a music reviewer, got an advance copy of the new Kamelot album, The Black Halo. I just spent the last hour shitting gold-plated nickels over how cool it is. If you are into metal (real metal, not the hardcore stuff they play on the radio), you need Epica, the album that came before, and you need The Black Halo.
Come on. It's Goethe's Faust told as a three-part concept album (Halo is part II). Only unlike practically every other concept album ever made, it doesn't suck. Kamelot are an incredible band, and they just keep getting better.
So, I had a foodgasm, then an eargasm. And I have incredibly well-written, intelligent, plot-heavy books to read, which will no doubt lead to multiple bookgasms.
And, in about an hour, I have a writers' meeting to go to. So I must take my leave, lest I smother you with attention.
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