Marginalia

[coalescent]

Things I should have linked to ages ago:

A logarithmic map of the universe. (Root page here, but it seems to do weird things to Safari.)

A conversation with Joe Hill (author of the rather good 20th Century Ghosts) at the Mumpsimus.

Battlestar Galactica season two deleted scenes.

Nattering on:

"If a writer insists on (or is obsessed by) returning to the same themes and forms"? Well, now, in my reading of Shakespeare, of Dickens, the Romantic poets, Hawthorne, James, Thomas Hardy, Hemingway, Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Yeats--actually of almost all serious writers still worth reading, I seem to find constant return to "the same themes and forms." Am I supposed to have grown "irritated"? Silly me. I just assumed that this was the mark of poets and novelists "obsessed" with the subjects that most interested them, that most strongly provoked their own powers of invention and led them to invest their "forms" with both imagination and authenticity. If I had only known they were just nattering on.

An excerpt (admittedly in a horrible font) from Ian R. Macleod's next novel, Song of Time.

The Top Blog Posts of 2005, allegedly. Number one is a livejournal post I missed completely.

The editors of the American Journal of Bioethics on the fabrication of stem cell data by Hwang Woo-suk,

And now I should go and do some useful things with my afternoon.

Comments

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

And now I should go and do some useful things with my afternoon.

Watch Veronica Mars?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Sadly, more like going to the bank and the post office and possibly to get a haircut, and then doing SH things.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

You disappoint me.

[blackbeltbarbie.livejournal.com]

Do you have season 1 of VM? Can I watch it?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Are you getting confused by everyone using the same icon, too?

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

The icon is awesome. Confusion is a small price to pay.

[ajr.livejournal.com]

Until you said this I hadn't realised it wasn't Liz who was commenting above. Clearly more than one person using the same (or similar) icon should be a BANNED event.

[blackbeltbarbie.livejournal.com]

... maybe...

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Most of VM season 1 is either on my shared H:/ drive or on some CDs in my room, barring two episodes I don't have. Alternatively, snowking has the season 1 DVDs.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

I do, but I live in Boston ...

(I assume you thought I was Liz?)

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

well, we're both AWESOME. so I guess it is easy to confuse us.

[blackbeltbarbie.livejournal.com]

Yes. I thought you were Liz. Damn you for using the same icons. Oh well. Its not like anyone expects me to notice stuff.

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

http://www.blogpulse.com/blogs2005/2005_TopBlogPosts.html

I like this a lot because I never pick up on big blog stuff going on so it's very handy.
Number four is making me laugh a lot. I am mean.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes you are.

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

You didn't laugh? Not even once?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I don't think I said that ... :-p

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

We are both mean girls!

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

are you mean too?

*clears space at lunch table just incase*

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

of course.

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

Ah, chance88088 = secritcrush? I was easily confused for a moment there.

Sit at the lunch table with Niall and I, today we are wearing pink :D

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

If this conversation goes in a pants direction, I'm leaving.

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

You just took it there! God, you're just an endless source of filth aren't you?

ROMG

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

Neill is a very dirty boy.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

yeah, it is confusing, and er silly.

(and hee. I totally was wearing pink, well socks.)

[ajp.livejournal.com]

A logarithmic map of the universe

Cool...

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

Yay for battlestar deleted scenes but large levels of growl for the fact they've now moved the extended 90 minute pegasus from the season 2 part 1 box set to part 2.

Meh.