- Still catching up — but back to normalish tomorrow. Speaking of picture books, which we weren’t
, Christopher and I both greatly enjoyed Bret Bertholf’s The Long Gone Lonesome History of Country Music. The art’s perfectly suited to the topic and the writing is snappy; puzzling out who’s who is fun and you can even get your own country music nickname. Yeehaw. Unrelatedly, I also finally got around to The Dairy Queen sequel, The Off Season, and yep, it surpasses the orginal in pretty much every way and that’s saying something. Um, and one last thing: It’s LBC-a-palooza time again. Megan announced the news of Read This! pick Matthew Sharpe’s Jamestown today. I’ll be posting about Nicola Griffith‘s Always tomorrow and we’ll be discussing it starting next Monday. And that "we" definitely includes you, assuming you’ve read the book and/or have something to say about it or about Nicola’s work in general — just e-mail me or drop a comment if you want to participate; posting at your own site highly encouraged, but please point me to it so I can link from here and the LBC site. It’ll be fun. Big things planned, etcetera. Now to linksies. - Man, this Dark is Rising movie just gets worse and worse looking All The Time.
- On doping and sports in the NYT. (Via Justine.)
- How walkable is your neighborhood? (Via Ed.)
- More fabulous Julie Larios poems in Swink. I particularly like "What We Meant."
- NYC undercity explorers in the NYT. Makes me want to de-trunk my undercity novel and revamp it. But that’s just the middle of the current book talking. Some-other-day.
- The one and only Literaticat is answering questions. Lots of questions. (Start there, then just go to all the recent entries.)
- Fashionista has put the entire November 1992 issue of Sassy online. (Via.) It makes me happy.
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My neighborhood scored a 91; apparently Astoria is a “walker’s paradise.”
Ugh. I saw the trailer for “The Dark is Rising” and if I didn’t know it was based on the book I wouldn’t have recognised it! They couldn’t pay me to watch it now.
I was one of the original subscribers for Sassy magazine — I actually got the mail ad they sent out before the first issue. I’ve lovingly kept all of my Sassys from number 1 on.
I don’t know the copyright logistics of scanning in a magazine that’s 20 years old. If I could get away with it, I’d scan ’em in. Nobody should have to pay for them on eBay.
Vintage Sassy should be free!!! *shakes fist*