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fitz_clementine

there is such thing as a tesseract

Jun 11, 2011 07:35

Oh, my. It stormed all night. I might've got thirty, forty minutes of sleep. It was exciting, though, energizing, and I sat up and I got some milk and I listened to the thunder and felt like Meg Murray at the beginning of A Wrinkle in Time.

I have a copy of this anthology, which I've been reading-- it's quite good overall, but it's an ( Read more... )

summer, insomnia, poetry, books, all-nighters

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avi_chiara June 12 2011, 00:02:29 UTC

It may not have been obvious to Jewel? I was maybe laughing a little at your short rant.

fitz_clementine June 12 2011, 18:03:33 UTC

Cool.

(I was half-worried that someone on my friendslist would turn out to be a huge Jewel fan and take offense.)

At one point, I had in my possession a zine that was entirely devoted to making fun of bad song lyrics in popular music, but I lost it a while ago & don't remember much about it besides the general idea. I don't think it had any Jewel lyrics, but it did target Billy Ray Cyrus's "Achy Breaky Heart."

signifiers June 12 2011, 05:58:20 UTC

This entry made me think of this.

fitz_clementine June 12 2011, 17:55:21 UTC

A THIRSTY POOL OF PATIENT FLESH

spacklegeek June 24 2011, 00:48:00 UTC

BORDERTOWN.

(I actually meant to respond to this entry shortly after I read it the first time, and then I forgot.)

I absolutely want to borrow it, although I'm not sure how long I'll be in PA - maybe only 2 weeks at the end of July. But I'd love it if you could mark the stories you liked best - maybe in some awesomely colored pencil again? :)

Is it as good as the earlier collections/stories? I really really want it to be.

fitz_clementine June 24 2011, 15:57:37 UTC

Ah, no, I was thinking you could borrow it sort of indefinitely if you wanted-- I'll have finished it by the time you get back, and even if I were going to have much space in my schedule for leisure reading once school starts, I've plenty of other books and plenty of other recent releases I've been wanting to take a look at. Plus, I know you'll like it.

There's a setting update, of course, so that the cultural references are 2000's-2010's rather than 1980's-1990's, and I think it's interesting how the various writers choose to deal, or not deal, with considerations like the internet, the modern ubiquity of cell phones, and so on. Cory Doctorow, of course, wrote his entire story about Bordertown internet, but it suffers from his usual great-concept-played-out-by-poorly-written-and-poorly-developed-characters problem. I think it's a good collection, anyway, not the same as the earlier ones, but true to them in spirit.