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Oh hey, comics has meta?
So today I found the comics meta section of the library. Sometime in the last decade, I'm not entirely sure when, the local library set up a graphic novel section on the ground floor, next to the sci-fi. (Their SF/F classification is ridiculously shoddy, but that's a different post.) I believe there is a corresponding set of shelves in the back ( Read more... ) -
Check your closets. You never know.
I heard about this early last week, and it's still amazing: newly-recovered recordings on wax cylinders that have been sitting in a box in Edison's laboratory ( Read more... ) -
Doctor Who: Birthdays
I've been playing with Doctor Who fanfic* and one of the publishable results is the following: Birthdays, a snippet concerning the Master during the Time War ( Read more... ) -
Christmas snippet
I've been dabbling in Doctor Who, with three or four WIPs that haven't quite turned publishable yet.
One of them involves that alternate universe, and practically everyone scheming against the Doctor already, and then Lucy Saxon pushed her way in, like so. I'm afraid she'll get along just fine... -
Brick, Mortar, and Tubes
This week there's a NYT op-ed about Amazon's latest maneuver in its war against brick & mortar, and Amazon versus bookstores generally. It hits all the warm fuzzy points about how great local bookstores are, ignores much of the good of Amazon, and the comments section was very interesting. Farhad Manjoo at Slate fired back on behalf of Amazon ( ( Read more... ) -
Inbox Zero!
I miss wrisomifu. Very much. But my place is clean, the inbox is empty, and there's food in the refrigerator, so December isn't all bad.
I finished one story, Blindman's Bluff during the month. It's Dexter, with major Lithgow-season spoilers. I posted the first two parts in August, when I was mostly done with the third section. Then I froze ( Read more... ) -
I am pleased.
Today I thought of something that makes one of my projects, for want of a better phrase, not boringMy usual creative outlets are writing and embroidery. The basic skills are very accessible - most middle-schoolers can string together a sentence and avoid tragic needle accidents. But there's technical competency, and then there's figuring out ( Read more... ) -
Dear Hollywood...
I am somewhat face-blind. In real life, this means that people recognize me more often than I recognize them, and which leads to hilarious-in-retrospect exchanges while I try to figure out if I know the person from work, school, volunteering, dating, friend-of-friend I've met once, ACK! Apparently that does not happen to other people ( Read more... ) -
The fourth time 'round
It's been my month for sequels ( Read more... ) -
Issues and Fanfic
I have issues and also fanfiction.
The fanfic: Trajectory, a bit of Sparrington fluff or angst or...whatever. It's a companion piece to One Shot, because I can't leave bad enough alone.
The issues... were detailed in the rather longer version of this post that got eaten. Perhaps later!