A short while ago I had an email from somebody about something I was being debunkery about on my website, saying that they had seen a picture of [thing in question] in A Book they had read about 20 years ago -

- and yes, I totally concede that that in itself does not conduce to confidence -

- of a popular nature. By one of those people who has ( Read more... )

(May not be entirely coherent as am still terminally jetlagged.)

This riffs off the 'Secret Decoder Ring' panel at Wiscon, but is about the other direction that reading takes one - not the need to know all the references and allusions and influences of other stories or narrative conventions that the author puts in, but getting out new directions to ( Read more... )

Woke yet again at extremely silly hour, but at least managed to get back into a state of cosy doze, if not deep sleep, until a more eligible getting-up time.

Went to the 'Can Internet Drama Save the World' panel, which was excellent - I think the general consensus was that it might not save the world, but that debates over racism, sexism, ( Read more... )