Exquisite YA
The ever-fabulous Cecil Castellucci posts the exquisite corpse written at last night’s speakeasy event featuring a bunch of LA YA luminaries.
Monday Hangovers
- If intention becomes reality, the posting schedule will be a little closer to normal this week, emails will be answered, and that sort of thing. (Oh, and the third column will start loading again, if Typepad gets back to me on that.)
- Someone more industrious needs to add a note about John Green’s use of "fug" in Abundance of Katherines ala Mailer to the Wikipedia list of fictional expletives. (List via the one and only Ms. Meisner.)
- Halloween costumes by some design luminaries previously seen on Project Runway.
- Dream house, er, cottage. (Via the Endicott Blog.)
- John Crowley on meanings that come to shade certain words, both personally and in general.
- Kelly Link recommends Slither, which is now out on DVD.
- Frank Portman sings "Cingular Wireless, Worse Than Hitler." (Via Literaticat.)
Another Cold or Just Sleepy?
A poem, in any case, to make it better:
A Rough Guide
Be polite at the reception desk.
Not all the knives are in the museum.
The waitresses know that a nice boy
is formed in the same way as a deckchair.
Pay for the beer and send flowers.
Introduce yourself as Richard.
Do not refer to what somebody did
at a particular time in the past.
Remember, every Friday we used to go
for a walk. I walked. You walked.
Everything in the past is irregular.
The steak is very good. Sit down.
There is no wine, but there is ice cream.
Eat slowly. I have many matches.
– Mark Haddon
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Thursday Hangovers
- Notes from a writer who who attended Lynda Barry’s Writing the Unthinkable workshop. (via Austin)
- Cylon jack-o-lantern! Robotic Dalek Pumpkin! (via Big Blog O Cheese) And a haunted house made of balloons! (Via Deanna Hoak)
- Six word stories at Wired, including lots of outtakes that didn’t make the mag. (via EVERYWHERE)
- The Wednesday Chef makes liking Chipotle acceptable with one fell–albeit subtle–swoop.
- Niall Harrison on the dangers to readers of stories using real people as jumping off points. I avoid these dangers by assuming all fiction is lies, LIES!
- Two excellent responses to M.T. Anderson’s most excellent Octavian Nothing: Matt Cheney and Meghan McCarron. I will get around to writing about this book more fully here, but, basically, I second everything these guys have said.
- The divine Lauren Cerand on online publicity for writers.
- Jenny Davidson on Marvin Millar’s delightful book The Good Fairies of New York, which I am beyond thrilled to see Soft Skull finally bringing to the U.S. I read this novel years ago in a British omnibus edition with several of Millar’s other novels. So much fun. Not your usual fairy-types. And, yes, the only book that readily leaps to mind where a protag has a colostomy bag.
- Mr. McLaren on aging and his shifting interpretation of a W.B. Yeats’ poem.
- Back later/tomorrow with a post on airplane reading & other stuff.
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VeronicaMarsTalk
But, of course, there is always TV to talk about in my absence:
Charlie Don’t Surf. When Logan (Jason Dohring) is informed that his inheritance is running low, he become suspicious and enlists Veronica’s (Kristen Bell) help to sort through his financial records. Veronica uncovers that large sums of money have been going to a man named Charlie Stone (Matt Czuchry). Meanwhile, Keith is hired by Harmony (Laura San Giacomo) to investigate her cheating husband. Jason Bloom directed the episode written by Diane Ruggiero and Jason Elen.
On the Road (updated)
And no free wireless anywhere. Back Thursday. Or possibly Monday.
p.s. Portland is awesome!
p.p.s. Yeah, so I sprang for the in-room high speed. I’m a junkie, I know. And I still won’t have time to post. But I am so loving this city: quick, someone offer me a job here.
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One Song: “Hotaru”
"Hotaru" by Kama Aina – The most beautiful track I’ve had stuck on repeat this year. Club Kama Aina comes out soonish, I believe, and I can hardly wait. Kama Aina is a project from Japanese musician Takuji Aoyagi, who has said of this music: ‘Kama Aina represents me as a fan of music which comes from islands, as well as referring to myself living in an island country. I sometimes think that my music reminds me of a remote island somewhere. On the other hand it also sounds like a champroo music of an island, which is a melting pot of everything from the outside world. Again I thought the word would suit my position well.’
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Unacceptable!
I did the Muppet quiz, but I refuse to accept Elmo. I hate Elmo! I am not Elmo-esque!
Now that we’re clear on that, don’t expect much of anything else from me for a few days (besides the Friday song, of course). Houseguests arriving sorta eminently and &tc.
Thursday Hangovers
- I want this jacket.
- A USA Today blurb on why Joe Hill didn’t wear an "I’m Stephen King’s Son" sign on his forehead AND back when he published his collection and was shopping his novel. (Via GalleyCat.) For the record, my impression of Hill is that he’s a supremely classy guy, in addition to being outrageously talented.
- The Pan’s Labyrinth trailer is amazing. I love the Guillermo del Toro and can’t wait to see this. (Via Midori at the Endicott blog.)
- Max on the red tide hitting newspaper book sections; see comments for interesting discussion.
- Tod Goldberg discovers that apparently kids do still write in each other’s yearbooks.
- Annie Leibovitz profile on the occasion of a new book, A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005, which also features photos of her long-time partner Susan Sontag.
- Phantom magazine # 0 will have new stories by F. Brett Cox and Hannah Wolf Bowen, to name a couple; order it now.
- Michael Kors: designer par excellence or just the cattiest cat of them all?
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VeronicaMarsTalk
Whoopsie, I’m late:
Witchita Linebacker. Veronica (Kristen Bell) is hired by a campus football player to help him find his stolen playbook before the next practice, or risk losing his scholarship. As a result of the expose Veronica wrote about the campus sorority, Dean O’Dell (guest star Ed Begley, Jr., "Arrested Development") threatens to expel her if she doesn’t reveal one of her sources. Logan (Jason Dohring) tells Veronica his schedule is keeping them apart, but she realizes he has been spending time participating in illegal gambling. Meanwhile, Veronica convinces Keith (Enrico Colantoni) to hire Weevil (Francis Capra) to assist with office work at Mars Investigations.