A back injury in mid-May landed me on my back, in pain. Which meant I got a lot of reading done this month, not only books I’ve been meaning to get to, but also the chance to catch up on my magazine subscriptions. Of course, I have a new copy of both Interzone and...
Read more →Not a jazz post. Just a note: I’ve posted a few things on private setting. If you sign in, you can see them. Or friends signed in at livejournal can also see them on my LJ, which mirrors my content here. Sensitive subjects or private ones.
Read more →Lately I’ve been experiencing something new to me: news rage. It’s not the stories in the newspaper that get me. Rather, it’s the Korean news stories that never make it to the English newspapers that get my blood boiling. Stories about teenaged girls being raped and left to die from exposure in the cold,...
Read more →You know, I decided to give Derrida one more try, by perusing a bit from Of Grammatology — the bit collected in A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds, edited by Peggy Kamuf. The only thing that resonated with me was a bit of a footnote, which I’ll quote here: Linear writing has therefore indeed...
Read more →Just nerve pain. Walking seems to help a little. More real content coming soon, including some big news as soon as the contract is inked. Until then, here’s my girlfriend’s Meez to amuse you. Good thing she really does love nerds.
Read more →I’m not totally recovered from my back pains, but things are much better now. Those who are paying attention to my sidebar might have noticed I’ve been doing a tremendous amount of reading in the last week, at least compared to usual. I’m caught up on my subscriptions to F&SF and InterZone, with one...
Read more →Back pain. Doing better. Not writing or posting much. That’s why. Reading a lot, though, while stuck on my back doing stretches and resting my weary back muscles. I’ll update on recent readings when I am feeling better… as well as launch into revisions of “Lester Young”, post long-overdue crits to friends, and start...
Read more →No date set, but she did say yes, and this time, since she’s wearing a ring, it really actually officially counts. I asked a couple of days ago (on Wednesday), but we were waiting till I could call my mom on mother’s day to let her know about it. Yay! PS: Yes, for those...
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