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 F&SF, but that’s a good thing, actually. Magazines: Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2007 I wasn’t crazy about the Gene Wolfe story, so all the articles in praise of him just sort of muddled things for me; I thought the best pieces were (definitely) the David …
Month: May 2007
Au Privave
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.
News Rage
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, for example; or about a desperate family approaching cops, begging them to help find their kidnapped daughter who is in the neighborhood, and being yelled at for interrupting some fucking cop’s precious sleep — only to find the daughter the next day, raped (of course) and …
Derridian Nonsense, Story Idea
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 [“]constituted, during many millennia, independently of its role as conserver of the collective memory, by its unfolding in one dimension alone, the instrument of analysis out of which grew philosophic and scientific thought. The conservation of thought can now be conceived otherwise than in terms of …
Worse Again…
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.