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the Prequel's Progress: 21446. Sat down yesterday to work on the orgy scene and what came out instead was part of the narrator's death, but hey, it's wordcount. (Both scenes happen to involve a scuffle with the same antagonist, and I guess the second fight just elbowed the first out of the mental queue...) Would have done more today, but I didn't wake up until 6 pm because of the heat; will see about getting new headphones so I can shift over to nocturnal work-schedules for the summer months.
Today's mail call brought the "sorry, we're full up" form letter from Agent #2 -- about what I was expecting, in truth. On to Agent #3.
Updating the saga of my library consumption rate:
New this week:
Daniel H. Burnham: visionary architect and planner · Sewer, gas & electric: the public works trilogy · Fool on the hill · Pearl buying guide: how to evaluate, identify, and select pearls & pearl jewelry · Opening Skinner's box: great psychological experiments of the twentieth century · The sorrows of empire: militarism, secrecy, and the end of the Republic · Celebrity-in-chief: how show business took over the White House · A place so foreign and eight more: stories · Alphabet of thorn
Books OUT:
The president of good & evil: the ethics of George W. Bush: basically he hasn't got any, according to a professor of same.
New magics: an anthology of today's fantasy · Dark matter: reading the bones · 100 wicked witch stories: anthologies, house policy for which is to read the stories that interest me and skim the rest.
Prairie style: research for the Prequel.
Japan: an illustrated history: more research for the Prequel, as it turns out.
Scurvy: how a surgeon, a mariner, and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail: you never know when you might need to know these things...
Elfquest: wolfrider. Volume one: ended up being the right-sized snack for Snip's emergency room visit
The accusers: I'm not usually big on mysteries, but Davis's Falco is a marvelous narrative voice, and I like the SFnal conceit of the PI-in-Imperial-Rome notion.
So basically I've been avoiding the 24/7 Reaganfest on the telly by working and reading, which I suppose is marginally better than some of the alternatives (which tend to end with "...got picked up by the Justice Department for having Un-American Thoughts and was never heard from again"). Man, I can't wait for this week to be over... (Although I actually rather liked the way Nightline handled the issue last night; respectful, but not overblown and sugarcoated like what the cable newsbots have been falling over themselves with all weekend. I get it, he's dead and you're sad, but dear god, why do we need hours and hours of a live feed of the coffin? Are you expecting him to rise on the third day or something?)
Today's mail call brought the "sorry, we're full up" form letter from Agent #2 -- about what I was expecting, in truth. On to Agent #3.
Updating the saga of my library consumption rate:
New this week:
Daniel H. Burnham: visionary architect and planner · Sewer, gas & electric: the public works trilogy · Fool on the hill · Pearl buying guide: how to evaluate, identify, and select pearls & pearl jewelry · Opening Skinner's box: great psychological experiments of the twentieth century · The sorrows of empire: militarism, secrecy, and the end of the Republic · Celebrity-in-chief: how show business took over the White House · A place so foreign and eight more: stories · Alphabet of thorn
Books OUT:
The president of good & evil: the ethics of George W. Bush: basically he hasn't got any, according to a professor of same.
New magics: an anthology of today's fantasy · Dark matter: reading the bones · 100 wicked witch stories: anthologies, house policy for which is to read the stories that interest me and skim the rest.
Prairie style: research for the Prequel.
Japan: an illustrated history: more research for the Prequel, as it turns out.
Scurvy: how a surgeon, a mariner, and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail: you never know when you might need to know these things...
Elfquest: wolfrider. Volume one: ended up being the right-sized snack for Snip's emergency room visit
The accusers: I'm not usually big on mysteries, but Davis's Falco is a marvelous narrative voice, and I like the SFnal conceit of the PI-in-Imperial-Rome notion.
So basically I've been avoiding the 24/7 Reaganfest on the telly by working and reading, which I suppose is marginally better than some of the alternatives (which tend to end with "...got picked up by the Justice Department for having Un-American Thoughts and was never heard from again"). Man, I can't wait for this week to be over... (Although I actually rather liked the way Nightline handled the issue last night; respectful, but not overblown and sugarcoated like what the cable newsbots have been falling over themselves with all weekend. I get it, he's dead and you're sad, but dear god, why do we need hours and hours of a live feed of the coffin? Are you expecting him to rise on the third day or something?)