I love books. As I write this I am literally surrounded by them. Every wall, floor to ceiling. I have friends who write books. I have other friends who are just as nutty about books as I am. I read a lot of blogs and other sources of information about authors, publishers, etc. Consequently, I have spent a decent amount… Read more →
Year: 2007
The Day The Bulls Won
I meant to mention this last month, and then things got out of hand. So, you know the “running of the bulls” in Pamplona? I don’t get it, but then there’s a lot of that Hemmingwayesque butch stuff that I don’t get. Knowing that “Injuries are common, both to the participants who may be gored or trampled, and to the… Read more →
I like Sherlock Holmes.
I don’t think it ever occurred to me that Arthur Conan Doyle‘s lifespan had convergence with the period in which film, particularly film with audio, was a common technology. I certainly don’t think of him being alive until 1930–in my mind he’s all about gaslight, and certainly set in the period well before WWI. However, reality is, as is often… Read more →
Mixing It Up 5: Minksellaneous
OK, after a pause long enough for the Minks to cross most of Canada–so much for the “do some easy posts to keep the blog going while work crested” plan–we come to the last one ..and let's finish up with an unthemed mix of various things. They’re all appropriate in some way, but they don’t fit nicely into themes as… Read more →
I am an information junkie
I just read through the 600+ posts that my RSS Reader had stored up for me in the “High Interest” category while I was working too hard over the last several weeks. I had occasionally popped into the reader and read some of what might be called the informal “Very High Interest” subset (I really should formalize that), but still… Read more →
I think the madness is over…
…or at least I am past the peak of it. The last three weeks of insanely intense work, with days getting longer as the week progressed–in the last 10 days I have been working almost all of my waking hours, including weekends, and I have seen the sunrise from my desk on three different occasions–were frankly brutal. I think I’ve… Read more →
Also…
…work is kicking my ass. Yes. I expect that if I make it through this coming week, I may survive the rest of the year. Read more →
Mixing It Up 4: “Love Songs”
Those scare quotes are important. Most straight up, earnest love songs bore me–unless they feature a lot of use of the word “baby” in which case they positively repell me. These songs are all songs about love, of one kind or another, but they are not what you would call “love songs”. (If you’re wondering why that image for this… Read more →
Mixing It Up 3: Late Night And Mellow
So this is the one for making the exact middle of the night slip by… Back in the days when I used to do a lot of team road-tripping, we determined that 3:41 (the whole minute) is the exact middle of the night. If you make it past 3:41, you can go all night. They try harder and harder to… Read more →
U.S.A. Number One!
I think that’s probably just Ted A’Zary screwing up the curve for you guys. (Still, that’s a crazy gap. No wonder you guys can’t tell Fox News from reality any more.) Read more →
Mixing It Up 2: Late Night Giddy
So, for the second disc, the idea was to gather together some upbeat and amusing songs; songs to keep you feeling a bit silly during long night drives. Maybe songs to keep your spirits up when cold rain is falling on you in the dark. As with all these mixes, these are only a subset of the songs I have… Read more →
Mixing It Up 1: Immortal Tunes
“I believe that when you’re making a mix tape or CD, you’re making history. You ransack the vaults, you haul off all the junk you can carry, and you rewire all your ill-gotten loot into something new. You go through an artist’s entire career, zero in on that one moment that makes you want to jump and dance and smoke… Read more →
Mixing It Up 0: The Introduction
Since I’ve been insanely busy with work the last couple of weeks, and I don’t see it clearing up in the immediate future, I’m going to resort to a little easy posting. Let me explain… Two of the girls (do I have to call them women now?) who work at my excellent local comic shop are members of an all-girl… Read more →
I want matches in case I have to suddenly burn
Do you remember way back when I was lamenting my lack of knowledge of what Nicole Blackman was up to? And then she replied to the post, resulting my great blog-joy? Well, at the time she replied she pointed us to her story, “Dumped”, in Brooklyn Noir, and mentioned the current performances of the Courtesan Tales. While I didn’t manage… Read more →
