Someone made this Flatiron Building mask for the work Halloween bash, but then abandoned it in the Sales Department somewhere along the line-- It has been sitting in between my desk & Kelly's desk since then, & the other day Kelly took some pictures of me wearing it. Of which this is the best. So that is where this picture came from! I'm terrible about taking pictures, I know-- no matter how ...
23 Hours by David Wellington. In Emerald City No one can hear you scream! "Oz" meets "30 Days of Night." Every time I read one of Wellington's vampire novels, my opinion of him ratchets up a few notches. I started out just thinking these were fun, throw-away pulp reads; then by the time Vampire Zero came out, I realized I was snatching these up & reading them as soon as I could get my ...
(Meat Man, from Mythbusters , aka my next Promethean character-- not pictured, diving helmet!) A diary? Writing to record my happenstances? What ho! Last night I got a martini or three courtesy of friend the gentleman Pierce , who I met through a mutal affection for Paizo & Nicola Griffith, oddly enough. What a juxtapose! We met up at the Algonquin, which I'd never managed to get my act ...
Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan. Souls for Stygia! Souls for Heaven, souls for Hell! Limbo's confusing. I'll cop to it, I'll own up. I've been slack about reading. Heck, even when I have been reading, I've been paging through old roleplaying books. Three plot devices are to blame-- one my NaNoWriMo , which gobbled up chunks of my time. Speaking of gobbling, two-- Thanksgiving. We had two of ...
... with 500 words left to go. Panic! Still. I maybe cheated because the novel isn't done done. I mean, I won NaNoWriMo by writing 50,000 words in 30 days, but like I was telling mordicai , when it got down to the wire I had to end the novel by writing a one-paragraph alien holocaust of flying saucers that destroys everything and everyone in the novel. I will now go back and delete that. ...
Hayate X Blade volume V. Special S-class fight! Special maid costume cafe! Sword-duel a go-go! The most recent Hayate X Blade , & just as confusing & sort of addicting as the rest. The plethora of characters-- including a Sid & Nancy, now?!-- are a big hard to navigate, especially considering that family names, given names, & nicknames are all bandied about interchangably. Doesn't wreck...
House of Cthulhu by Brian Lumley. The Land Before Time! Starring...Littlefoot! Not really, but that would be sweet. I guess my opinion of him hasn't changed from The Taint ? Or Necroscope for that matter. He's fine but...not great. I actually thought I was going to put this down...but then I'd read a story I did like, & would carry on. Here is sort of the deal: he tries to pastiche ...
I know, I know! It is November, though, & I've been working on my NaNoWriMo instead of doing journalese. I'm at 39k, which puts me near about where I want to be. I've gone back & forth-- I hated it for a while, what I've been outputting, but I have kind of gotten back to a good place. Here is what I've learned-- I like epistolary documents, & I like putting together scraps. Nothing quite so ...
The Deep by John Crowley. The Just raised the Gun. The Gun is named Suddenly. Then, Suddenly speaks. I liked this better than Engine Summer I think? Well, it is tough to say. They each have strong points over the other. The biggest problem with this is also a perk-- what exactly is going on, here? I mean-- just what is going on? That said, I really like the pieces of this. I enjoyed it ...
Inversions by Iain Banks. The Good Doctor said: "Ah, so you are serious." The drone killed them all. Cheating! I shouldn't be writing this here but want to at least get something down before I lose my train of thought. This isn't officially a Culture book, but it might as well be. Well, it might as well be a fantasy novel, set in a made up land-- with two suspiciously advanced people, a ...
