I'm not around LJ that much these days, but I thought I'd pop up just to say howdy, and happy New Year, New Baktun, etc.

OK, slinking back to lurkerdom now...

It seems like I should be blogging again, and I've been thinking about lists lately, so that's where I'll begin. (And let's hope I've remembered how the cut tag works in LJ...)

Last week, I was reading a copy of The Book of Fantasy (edited by Borges, Ocampo, and Casares) that I'd picked up among the wonderful selection of cool stuff at The Green ( Read more... )

I've been tidying the story descriptions on my fiction page, pruning the dead links, etc.

Quite a few of my early stories appeared at The Fortean Bureau, which stopped publishing in 2006. That's something like an eon and a half in internet time, so I'm really grateful it remained as an online archive for several years, although it's gone now.

On ( Read more... )

Until recently, I was writing short flash fiction stories every week or two for The Daily Cabal.

Now that the Cabal's wrapped up, I figured I'd get back into the swing of blogging again with a couple debriefing posts on the Cabal experience.

Here are my favorite twelve of the stories I wrote for the project. I don't know if these always succeeded in ( Read more... )

Paul Pope's Adam Strange serial was my favorite part of DC's Wednesday Comics this summer.

From what he says on his blog, those single-page installments shaped his approach to the bit of Dune that you can see full-size here.

Among the things that I particularly liked are Lovern Kindzierski's desert sky colors and the ornithopter's squiggly shadow on ( Read more... )

I'm always a sucker for some revved-up, reimagined folk music, and have been checking out what I can find online by The Imagined Village, who do some great versions of English folk music. (It's basically Eliza and Martin Carthy, plus assorted members of Afro-Celt Soundsystem, plus Sheila Chandra, plus Billy Bragg, plus even more folks with whom I'm ( Read more... )

The Day of the Dead is on my list of festivals I’d like to go to one day.

They seem to do a pretty good job of it in Tucson, witness this picture.

And what’s in the photo isn’t half as interesting as the context as described in the caption:

…An undulating snake of skeletons, bogeywomen and the deceased wend their way beneath a phalanx of stilted, ( Read more... )

Multi-dome house on the beach, via Robin Miller: http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/2008/12/bubbles-on-the-beach.html

Spiffy mirror-camoflaged treehouse, via Dinosaurs and Robots: http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2009/03/brilliant-treehouse-hidden-with-mirrors.html

...and back to the cabal story I'm working on for Thursday.

Howdy. I'm returning to the blogosphere, and finally starting to post on the blog over at www.rudidornemann.com, where things are cool and green. I'll probably cross-post everything here, though, so you can catch me at either locale.

*Links fixed now*

Came across a reference to an interesting-sounding book, the Codex Seraphinus, an encyclopedia from ( Read more... )

Most global-warming related news is fairly grim, but this post re. disintegrating ice sheets contains what I'm hereby declaring Rudi's phrase of the week (in reference to how the data was gathered ( Read more... )