An interview with Catherynne M. Valente, author of The Labyrinth. Why should readers pick up your book as opposed to, say, just about anybody else’s book? Because my book is so much cheaper than LSD, and nearly twice as legal. You are required to brave up to 60% fewer dark alleys and abandoned factories to […]
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The Guardian has some questions up that are often posed to non-white, non-Christian and/or non-straight interviewees: now it’s time to turn the tables – Do you think of yourself as white or American or both? Ummm… Does it worry you that you got your job just because of your race? Yes. Where are you from?
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“Where one begins by burning books One will end up burning people.” –Heinrich Heine
Something to think about – A cool excerpt from the prize winning book Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. I’m definately picking this one up: “… Each image of a beautiful face or perfectly turned limb is not really about the subject that it appears to be, but rather what it is not.
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In the movie Master and Commander, one of the boys working on becoming an officer is told by Paul Bettany, ship’s doctor and amateur naturalist, that he has a knack for naturalism. And the kid says: “You don’t suppose I could be a sort of Fighting Naturalist, do you?” China Mieville is a sort of
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So, I sat down and watched the summer special-effects movie, The Day After Tomorrow. What can I say, I have a thing for Jake Gyllenhaal of Donnie Darko fame. Being me, there’s a little part of my brain attuned to the gender dynamics of the movies I’m watching. I watch them for their own sake,
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I jumped over to Atrios’ place and was troubled by this little post about Anderson Cooper and CNN’s apparent reluctance to air the matter of his sexuality on prime-time news. Whoa, buddy, hold on: His sexuality is nobody’s damn business. Who I take to bed is nobody’s damn business. The forced “outing” of celebrities and
Writing today. I’m sure I’ll find something hysterical to rant about tomorrow. Like this. See you then. In the mean time, here’s some calming breathing space: