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Interesting
There has been a massive uptick in spam attacking my LJ lately. Weird. -
What's with all the "Fiction must reflect the horrors of reality" snobbery lately?
Charle Stross just posted a polemic on why he hates steampunk, most of which seems toreflect the thought that because it is set in the 19th century, it should reflect all the horrors of that time. Tobias Bucknell says basically the same thing with an added hate on fantasy thrown in. China Meiville gets the hate on for Tolkien, again, ostensibly, ( Read more... ) -
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I just finished 2 books from this year's Hugo list: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
I have to say I liked Boneshaker better, but only just a little bit. And I didn't love either one of them. I had problems with the endings in each and similar problems with character in each...that being that I hated one of the ( Read more... ) -
I wonder what Samuel Taylor Coleridge would do?
I keep thinking that I should join the Satan School of the Romantic period. Coleridge and Shelley and Byron were all pretty successful writers...And they clearly had slain their internal editors (I mean, c'mon - a 5-Act Play about incest THEN?).
See, that is my actual quest. I have a bunch of half-written stories and articles and screenplays and I ( Read more... ) -
Congratulations Eugie!
My dear friend Eugie Foster is celebrating the release of her new collection of short stories Returning My Sister's Face and Other Tales of Far Eastern Whimsy and Malice. Follow the link to her virtual launch party!
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Linus is mad at me
My basset-beagle mix is mad at me right now. He hates his allergy shots and I had to stick him 3 times today to give him his shot because he kept pulling away from the needle ( Read more... ) -
My musical obsession
I look over my life as a 40 year old and see some tendencies that society, should the know about them, would frown upon...Like my obsession with the music of teenage female performers. Now, let me say that only one of the performers themselves actually offers me anything obsession worthy...the rest seem pretty bland as people. But they are putting ( Read more... ) -
Coleslaw!
I've been cooking a lot lately. If I were a good blogger, I'd take pictures and post them, while cooking. I'm not so I didn't. But I have discovered my new favorite coleslaw recipe this summer. It's tangy and tasty and creamy which is everything I like in a coleslaw ( Read more... ) -
Sticker Shock...
Okay. Fine dining restaurants are expensive. It goes with the territory. However, I was a little shocked to see how much the tasting menu at Spiaggia was after drinks were added. Not that it wasn't good. But $500 for two (including tip), that was a little surprising ( Read more... ) -
Sigh
Candi had another seizure tonight. It's been 18 months, give or take, since her last one, which is good. And it's about 30 minutes past and she seems alright, if a little tired. But I had kind of hoped that she was done with seizures. They are hard on little dogs and make me feel stressed out, too.