"...cycling by, through windows of our past lives."

[greygirlbeast]

Both The Drowning Girl and my short story "Fake Plastic Trees" have been nominated for the 2013 Locus Award (this makes four nominations and one win for The Drowning GirlIt seems like a long time since I made an entry here, but I see that it was only Wednesday. A hop, skip, and a jump. Hardly seventy-two hours ago. I'd meant to take two days off. I

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[alumiere]

You write so beautifully here... The air yesterday - and today - is filled with cherry blossoms, like whirling clouds of pink snow. Thank you for sharing the bits of your life with us.

[martianmooncrab]

The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor.

ooh, that sounds interesting, both history and dinos..

[rexallen]

A good quote by J.B.S. Haldane that highlights the implicit contradiction in Hawking's point about "chemical scum":

"It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms."

[greygirlbeast]

Er...no.

[rexallen]

Doesn't Hawking make essentially the same point in A Brief History of Time?

"Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe. But there is a fundamental paradox in the search for such a complete unified theory. The ideas about scientific theories outlined above assume we are rational beings who are free to observe the universe as we want and to draw logical deductions from what we see. In such a scheme it is reasonable to suppose that we might progress ever closer toward the laws that govern the universe. Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from the evidence? Might it not equally well determine that we draw the wrong conclusion? Or no conclusion at all?"

[everville340]

Any day that I step outside the apartment is almost by default a good day - in theory, at least - merely for actually stepping outside the apartment (given the choice I'd much rather not).

Spring in Providence is beautiful. Paper Nautilus, albeit a dangerous place, looks tres cool! The fact that it's an actual living, breathing bookstore no doubt makes it enticing, but "ephemera, and assorted oddments"...who could resist that?

[kiki60]

Since today is mother's day I would like recommend "Tangled". This is fairly dark movie for Disney. Rapunzel's real parents don't have a speaking role, so the witch is Rapunzel's emotional mother, The witch tries to cripple
Rapunzel emotional by playing on her fears, and insecurities so she can stay young forever. Rapunzel just wants once to be free, and see the world. Fighting past guilt, Rapunzel faces her fear. She finds that not only are fears false, but her greatest joy. In the end Rapunzel rebels against her mother, She will be free, or die fighting. The witch realizes she can't control Rapunzel anymore, so she murders her dream instead. Big knife to the heart and all. No blood, but hey it is a kid's movie. If the dead just stayed dead, the movie would have been perfect. I don't know how they slipped this one past the big wigs. Happy Mother's Day.