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[jan_event]

They are smarter than me. For all my book learning, for all my management bullshit, for all my travelling, they're smarter in ways I never even contemplated. This isn't being street smart, this is being the street

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[sharplittlteeth]

Prayer flowing from tower to tower to mind; ancient networks with no IP addresses

Nice.

[jan_event]

Thanks. One of those lines I can't really take credit for because it just came to me as I looked around the city from a rooftop.

What's the best book you've read recently?

[sharplittlteeth]

Recently?

World War Z, by Max Brooks. I love how he uses zombies as a geologist's hammer, cracking open the world to show what it's made of.

Before that: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Which I liked enough to give Docotorow money, but not so much I needed the hardcopy cluttering up my flat. Fortunately, he set up a "donate a copy to a library" program, which I did.

Currently reading a Margot Lanagan collection of YA fantasy short stories. Not enjoying it as much as people raving about lead me to believe I would.

And you?

[jan_event]

Well, I'm relying more on people and libraries in a, perhaps vain, effort not accumulate as little as possible.

I haven't read WWZ, but in the same genre, the collected series of Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman is excellent. I think Hammo just bought the first volume. There are eight - I've read 7 - and it just keeps getting better.

The best book I've read recently, though, is Stephen King's On Writing. Even if you don't like his writing, the things he says about the craft are dead on the money.

Thinking about this question has made me realise that I've read a lot of shit. :)

[missmalice]

Lovely :)

[illdrinn]

Now that you mention it you do look a little Spanish. I generally get accused of being English or South African.

I'm interested to know why the reaction to Deb, because she's a girl, because of her arm or because she's alternative?

[jan_event]

I get Spanish, Greek, Italian, etc etc all the time. Most recently my grandmother told me that the older I get the more like a Tartar I look. Apparently my great-great-grandmother was Tartar which is where my dark looks come from.

And my love of steak Tartar. Boom tishh.

Interesting question. I think the people there had genuinely never seen green hair before. She got comments all the time, but never in a negative way, always admiring. This is the men, the girls would look in silent... jealousy, I guess. I think she had one comment from a girl, something like "I love your style". (This is, of course, coupled with the fact that she's quite pretty, too.)

She didn't get any comments about her arm, except one where some kids said something in French about her being a thief. Though I'm not sure if they were being malicious or just kids.