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I would take pics but there are no batteries and I am lazy. Emma’s very "glad you’re home" mellow needy, but Puck (aka Baby Moon, or as my nephews christened him "Agent Fox") is all "where are you going? please don’t go away again!" and it’s hilarious and cute. Hemingway is a mix of the two, in full-on grabbing and punching as I walk by mode.

It is good to be home.

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Monday Misc. & Hangovers

3 Comments / Hangovers / By Gwenda / July 30, 2007

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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Home!

Nattering / By Gwenda / July 28, 2007

And almost R&Red back into a Person with Firing Neurons, courtesy of our lovely, leisurely time in Northampton.

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PSA

16 Comments / Moving Pictures / By Gwenda / July 27, 2007

Do not see the movie Sunshine. You won’t like it. It’s terrible. It’s stupid. It’s SO bad.

I say: "How? Why? So confused."

Kelly says: "It follows the exact plot of Event Horizon."

Gavin says: "This is the dumbest film ever made."

Christopher says: "Event Horizon is a stupid stupid movie, but comparing the two is a disservice to Event Horizon."

We are all in agreement here.

More Book Group.

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The Future is Now

1 Comment / Scientifiction / By Gwenda / July 26, 2007

The Wall Street Journal has chosen to turn its attention to the legacy of Heinlein:

Robert A. Heinlein, who died in 1988, lived a life inspired by two great loves. One was America and its promise of freedom. As one of his characters put it: "Your country has a system free enough to let heroes work at their trade. It should last a long time — unless its looseness is destroyed from the inside." And he loved and admired women — not just his wife, Virginia, who provided the model for the many strong-minded and highly competent females who populate his stories, but all of womankind. "Some people disparage the female form divine, sex is too good for them; they should have been oysters."

Layers upon layers of meaning… (Thanks, Shana!)

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