Until yesterday, the way I organized my writing was horrible. I had a series of finalized folders up to various dates, each one of them holding writing from different periods, each period organized in a different way. The main categories were Fiction, Poetry/Songs, and Essays & Other. But within each folder was a bewildering bunch of different folders classifying works in various different ways, and all in all, it was a horrible useless mess to track, to dig through, and to manage in general. So I sat down and rearranged most of it in a few hours yesterday afternoon. I …
Month: October 2006
Documentary on Disbelief
After a long silence, the exxcellent Marvin of The Electric Smack Shack has posted links to Jonathan Miller’s wonderful documentary A Rough History of Disbelief, which apparently is available on Google video. Highly recommended.
“What A Terrorist Incident in Ancient Rome Can Teach Us” and Thoughts from George Soros
This New York Times piece deals fascinatingly with the parallels between the fall of Rome and what’s happened in the government of the US since 9-11. (Via Shawn Scarber, Insurgent Fantasist) UPDATE: Ritu also posted something along vaguely similar critical lines (though without thoughts of the ancient world), something written by George Soros.
Rejection #3: Clarkesworld, “Pahwakhe”
For those who read “The Woman Who Married a Ghost”, the revised version of this Clarion Story is now called “Pahwakhe” and it was just turned down by Nick Mamatas at Clarkesworld, with some encouraging comments and thoughts. I’ll look at it again with his suggestions in mind and see what rings true — I’ve heard at least one of his suggestions before, but remain not quite convinced. The fiction editor at the Canadian journal Prism International encouraged me to send it up, though, so maybe I’ll give it a go there first. Ha, maybe I’m just not sending out …
Viridian links
Worthwhile links from the most recent Viridian Note: rubber sidewalks, making fuel from CO2, and evidence of the acceleration of the melting of the ice on Greenland. I worry that no matter what, everything is indeed falling apart. We humans are just stupid enough to keep pushing for cash until the world collapses, I sometime think.