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Seen most recently at surrealis's place:
Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on something, favorite type of underwear, explain an interest, a fandom obsession, pre-fandom obsessions, whatever.
I'll answer in blog posts this week, I should imagine.
Also, if you, for some reason, are not bursting with questions about what experiments I ran today or what the sound of ejecting pipette tips really sounds like, talk to me about Warren Ellis. I heard somewhere that his short stories (Spider Jerusalem in particular was referenced) were some of the most extraordinary out there, and I'm really, really into short stories lately; but what I find is almost universally graphic novels. I certainly don't *mind* graphic novels, but they are not grabbing me with the same ferocity of short story collections these days. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Are they referring to graphic novels as short stories? Have you other short story authors to recommend? Other books you've read recently that you feel like the world should know about?
I've been reading Charnas's Walk to the End of the World, and I wish it weren't kicking me out as often as it is; but I persist. I am also reading Salman Rushdie for the first time, his East, West stories, and oh sweet cheesecake, I am in love with the language. I ration the stories so that I have time to properly process and consider the remarkable subjects despite the somewhat unreliable narrators. Extraordinary.
Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on something, favorite type of underwear, explain an interest, a fandom obsession, pre-fandom obsessions, whatever.
I'll answer in blog posts this week, I should imagine.
Also, if you, for some reason, are not bursting with questions about what experiments I ran today or what the sound of ejecting pipette tips really sounds like, talk to me about Warren Ellis. I heard somewhere that his short stories (Spider Jerusalem in particular was referenced) were some of the most extraordinary out there, and I'm really, really into short stories lately; but what I find is almost universally graphic novels. I certainly don't *mind* graphic novels, but they are not grabbing me with the same ferocity of short story collections these days. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Are they referring to graphic novels as short stories? Have you other short story authors to recommend? Other books you've read recently that you feel like the world should know about?
I've been reading Charnas's Walk to the End of the World, and I wish it weren't kicking me out as often as it is; but I persist. I am also reading Salman Rushdie for the first time, his East, West stories, and oh sweet cheesecake, I am in love with the language. I ration the stories so that I have time to properly process and consider the remarkable subjects despite the somewhat unreliable narrators. Extraordinary.