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The following is an annotated list of books that arrived in my mailbox last week -- both the publishers of those books and myself hope that I'll eventually review those books and greatly enjoy them. However, this is a fallen world, so it's likely that I'll never get to many of these books and ...
Books
Instead of writing a new post for today, I spent the last hour cleaning up and adding content to my "Reviewing the Mail" post from Monday; I guess I am obsessive. So, have some old content repurposed, so that there's an Antick Musings post dated today. This is another post I'm exhuming from ...
Film
We're coming into a very important and meaningful season in the Western world -- I'm referring, of course, to the frenzied shopping season that salvages the accounts of most major retailers, running for approximately the next five weeks. The detached but reportedly benign intellects at Amazon ...
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"We can all agree that children are ugly. Their heads are to big, their legs are too thin, their fingers too fat and grasping -- they are a complete mess. But what's most shocking about them is that their greatest ugliness is on the inside . I speak, of course, of their bigotry. I shouldn't even ...
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And so I'll give you a sneak preview of the reviews I should be writing, in reverse chronological order as I read them: I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb -- It's published as YA (which means it's a really cheap hardcover) and it's exactly the ...
Books
I'm back from my business trip, but I'm feeling grumpy, depressed, and uninterested in blogging -- partly because of the recent travel & vacation, partly because of how much work is piling up at the office (this is the busy season), and partly because of one particular e-mail I just saw ...
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First comes the general disclaimer: these are the books that arrived in the mail last week. I intend to read many of them, but I haven't read any of them yet. (And, this week, I've barely even glanced at any of them.) So this is not a "review" in any real sense of the word: it's a collection of ...
Film
I'd been saving this SF Signal post about "International Science Fiction Reshelving Day" -- coming up quickly on the calendar; it's next Wednesday -- because I wanted to rain scorn and bile on the idea. But I don't need to, since the estimable Charles Tan has already done so . So, to repeat: ...
Books
Charles Stross
Imprimus : I have just arrived in San Francisco (for the second time in two months) for the always-electrifying Business Valuation conference of the AICPA. (This one starts at 6:45 Monday and Tuesday, he said, shuddering visibly.) I expect to be chained to a booth for most of the forty-eight ...
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I should be typing up the list of books that came in the mail last week, but this one is shorter, so I'll do it first in hopes it inspires me... I went to my usual comic shop today after work, for the first time in about two months, and was more disorganized than usual. I've also fallen out of ...
TV
Two from Nick Paumgarten's recent New Yorker article (from the 10/12/09 issue) The Secret Cycle , on Martin Armstrong and financial cycle theory: In the Kondratiev waves and other commonly cited cycles -- the Kitchin (three to five years), the Kuznets (fifteen to twenty years) -- the time span ...
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That big online bookstore -- well, we still think of it as a bookstore (particularly when we are in the throes of planning our Co-Op for the first quarter of 2010), but they clearly see themselves as a general retail behemoth -- would like all those of you who wear clothes to know that they now ...
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Work is really busy this week -- particularly since it's a short four-day week sandwiched between the big family vacation and a business trip (starting Saturday morning, no less) to San Francisco -- and so I haven't had two brain cells to rub together to do any blogging. Tomorrow is less ...
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I was deep in the wilds of Disney when this was announced, and I'm still thousands of posts behind (in two separate feed readers, no less), but I did catch up far enough to see the winners of the 2009 World Fantasy Awards were... Lifetime Achievement : Ellen Asher & Jane Yolen Best Novel ...
Books
World Fantasy Awards
Jeffrey Ford
Kelly Link
Sometime this week, there will be my usual "Reviewing the Mail" post in this space, covering whatever books came in last week. But it's not here yet, because I'm still at Walt Disney World, and have been during every mail delivery this week. So I have no idea what books are waiting for me, ...
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Right at this moment, I'm still at Disney World, and the last thing on my mind is blogging. Luckily, I have emergency posts stored up in the attic for just such situations as this. The Internet, as always, feeds on spare time and produces odd thoughts. This was true even back in 2004, when a ...
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It's a miracle that Christopher Buckley came out halfway normal, with two such attention-grabbing parents as Patricia (socialite among socialites) and William (prime mover of the conservative movement, writer at immense length about nearly everything, and premiere stuffed shirt of the 20th ...
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"'And I myself,' continued Ford in a voice so superior it would have caused single-cell life forms to accelerate their evolution so that they could use their fab new opposable thumbs to pick up a rock and beat him to death. 'I myself base most of my calculations on emotions.'" - And Another ...
Books
The Return
Jeffrey Ford
Douglas Adams
"Since masturbation is what erotic writing so often leads to, that was reason enough to make [D.H.] Lawrence's novel [ Lady Chatterly's Lover ] controversial; but in addition, through the character of the gamekeeper, Lawrence probes the sensitivity and psychological attachment that man often ...
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Because all I have to say about them can be said more succinctly: Things Undone by Shane White (NBM/ComicsLit, November 2009, $12.95) This is White's second graphic novel, after North Country , which I didn't see. His hero, Rick Watt, is a mopey twentysomething who moves jobs from ...
