David Flora VERSUS the accordion! I want to see a human trying to play the background part that starts about ten seconds before the end. I imagine him or her sweating, off-kilter, arms flapping as if about to be pushed out of a nest.
Category: Connections
This is nerdy but not as nerdy as you’d think.
Topher Grace is going to be Venom.
I like Topher Grace an awful lot. I like Venom. I…
I mean, really?
They have seen Venom, ever, right?
Some days you think you’re just yodeling down the pipe, and some days you get a powerful response and moving discussion and people caring and kind words.
Should have saved that one until tomorrow. Now the next story’s going to be a letdown.
The Grimbles was so good you have no idea. PHILISTINE.
Adam Burke is making comics again! After he finished The Incredibility Machine storyline in The Grimbles, I thought he was finally gone forever: washed away like ash in an electron tide, an early-adoption sharecropper on whatever plot of cloud is reserved for webcartoonists done good.
But he’s not!
Wow, Kelly Link’s first story collection is out there for free under a CC license! That’s only served to guarantee I’ll buy a print copy. And Small Beer Press, by which she’s published and which she helps run, is working on adding ebooks sans DRM. Man!
Kind of getting a hero-worship thing for Kelly Link.
Not Katrinablogging
“The music on the tape loops and looped. It was going round for a second time. We sat and listened to it. We’ll be sitting and listening to it for a while longer.”
Everybody needs to buy Magic for Beginners right now and read it because I need a discussion group to figure out what she is doing with tense, dammit. Or you can borrow my copy. You can’t borrow my copy! I’m reading the title novella to Maria and I have to read all the stories in it again anyway.
At its worst (“The Cannon”) the book descends into playful postmodern nonsense, but at its best it’s glorious. It may be less glorious to people who don’t share my borderline ADD.
The story I quoted above (“Lull”) is kind of about time travel, so maybe the tense ambiguity is tied to that, but it also shows up in at least one other story (“Catskin”) which is a fairy tale and not about time travel at all. But there are two distinct stories about zombies.
I need you to read this book so we can talk about it!
Something not to be cynical about
Miscellétudes: David Flora making music on the interweb! It was Lisa’s idea to make him do a weekly one-minute composition, but I get to host him for it.
I think this is frickin’ great!
Man, people are lovin’ on the Prior-Art-O-Matic. You guys are aware that Kevan with an A has done about a billion things that cool, right?