You know, I just wrote a story eerily lime like this… but with zombification, instead of proper rescusciation: Docs Change the Way They Think About Death Via Fragment of the Day
Month: May 2007
April Readings / Viewings
It’s been a busy month, but I’ve managed to do some reading and to watch a couple of movies. Deeper discussions of the books, less so on the movies. Books: Korea Bug: The Best of the Zine that Infected a Nation, by J. Scott Burgeson. I’ve finished it! Not that it was a ponderous read, but that I feel like I have achieved something here. It’s a really fascinating text, actually — all kinds of interviews with people in whom I would have been interested, if I’d thought to think of them. The last gisaeng (Korean geisha)… a shaman… interesting …
My Daemon
All the cool kids are doing it. Okay, I haven’t read the copy of Northern Lights that’s been on my shelf over a year now, but, hey, this is interactive and cool. Your feedback will change the result of this quiz. Check it out (and ljers can do so here):
Consolamentum
Whew! I just finished redrafting another story, “Consolamentum.” It’s dark, dark, dark little 500-word piece, and I could certainly expand it somewhat if it doesn’t end up being sent to Postcards From Hell. It is very much another take on the same theme I am dealing with in my story that’s currently being called “Jinni the Quae”… about the weirdness of a kind of willful self-suppression of knowledge that is complicit with, and fomented by, institutionalized suppressions of knowledge: the kinds of forgetfulnesses that are normalized and cultivated in societies, and what happens when there’s a fundamental breakdown in those …
Egan’s Back
“The Egan Thief” was rejected, poor fella… I’ll give him a look and see if his face is clean and cute enough, and then send him out the door tomorrow, when I have more time. Off to a presentation on how to give good presentations.