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greygirlbeast

"Other hands than it should pass through..."

Feb 21, 2009 12:11

An odd day yesterday. After breakfast, I sat down and did my journal entry. I emailed my editor at Penguin, and I emailed Andrew Migliore about the Lovecraft Film Festival. And then, suddenly, I felt as though I was coming down with the flu. Within half an hour, I was aching and could hardly sit up, much less think clearly enough to write and/or ( Read more... )

sirenia, blah days, gaming, idiots, aliens, tarot, movies, the red tree

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chris_walsh February 21 2009, 17:18:25 UTC

this person, named "whydoilive,"

True story! A writer sent an unsolicited and badly-written manuscript called Why Do I Live? to an editor. The editor sent it back with only one note, next to the title: "Because you send manuscripts by mail."

(Recounted in The 776 Nastiest Things Ever Said by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras)

robyn_ma February 21 2009, 17:38:34 UTC

'some defense mechanism for an irony-obsessed generation incapable and afraid of taking anything serious'

I've thought about that myself. This new generation of kids seems rather more callous, and yet they're also the huggiest kids I've ever seen. I think the lol-whateverism is not so much a defense mechanism as an escape hatch. These are kids who grew up with Columbine and 9/11 and the war. They're imprinted with fears that they have to deny just to get through the day. They're definitely fucked up; then again so were we all at that age, just in a different set of ways. They do take things seriously, perhaps more deeply than we know, but they'd die before actually showing it. I think, also, we forget about the natural rebellious teen urge to be dismissive of what adults take seriously. This isn't meant to argue; I've had the same reaction, and I see a lot of teenagers at the library. In some ways they're no different than my generation when we were teens; in other ways they're very, very different, and I sit there a lot during dead ( ... )

greygirlbeast February 21 2009, 17:40:51 UTC

and yet they're also the huggiest kids I've ever seen.

I have noticed this, as well.

and I sit there a lot during dead periods and study the behavior.

I try to repress the gag reflex and just watch, because it is fascinating, and sad.

martianmooncrab February 21 2009, 18:22:27 UTC

tyransitiuon: (noun)

thats the kind of cult I would join.

jtglover February 21 2009, 22:13:38 UTC

Good luck with the last line edits on The Red Tree!

Yesterday I returned home from work and was thrilled to find A is for Alien sitting on my doorstep. Just went to my local used bookstore and had the (delightfully strange) dust jacket covered, and now to see if I actually manage to parcel the stories out day by day instead of consuming them in one gulp.