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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Twitter Digest – 2008-11-30

Sunday, November 30, 2008

You do think I’m beautiful, don’t you, Charlie Brown? # Fair enough. # 3000 miles overdue for an oil change. Huh. # guardian angel run yielded another box of books. highlights this time: paradise lost, nonfic africa in world politics, and the morte darthur # And I got “Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret,” [...]

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Twitter Digest – 2008-11-29

Saturday, November 29, 2008

well said, jon. well said. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/post/61990366 please do not lose hope. your local public library is still open. #

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Titus Groan

Saturday, November 29, 2008

I heard or read someone recommend the Gormenghast novels at some point, but I don’t remember who it was, or if they were trustworthy. Based on that flimsy and possibly imaginary endorsement, I picked up the omnibus at the library. It’s not supposed to be a trilogy, but Mervyn Peake died before he could write [...]

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Twitter Digest – 2008-11-28

Friday, November 28, 2008

So much for the “violent video games make children better shots” myth. #

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The Master and Margarita

Friday, November 28, 2008

Due to Soviet censorship, Mikhail Bulgakov never saw his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, published. In 1967, twenty years after he was safely dead, it was published in a trimmed version with the omitted sections published underground, through grassroots copiers (samizdat) in what sounds like an early politically motivated sneakernet. The devil, who is called [...]

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Twitter Digest – 2008-11-27

Thursday, November 27, 2008

c’est la guerre. (pronounciation guide, and a cool parent site indeed: http://tinyurl.com/5jql8c) # switch on summer with a slot machine… (not that i’d want to. autumn for the proverbial win.) # dear cat stevens: you fix the things that are broken. you fix them right well. # @ryanquattlebaum sorry about what? my love for cat [...]

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Twitter Digest – 2008-11-26

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

@documentingme wow, so it’s official? this site is good for some cheap glasses, so i hear: http://zennioptical.com/cart/home.php # @smoonen tom coda recommends them. i haven’t used them, but i hear many good things. and i also have spent much more money than necessary. # time to sleep. i think i’m getting sick. in other news, [...]

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Briar Rose

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Jane Yolen is a deft writer, and in Briar Rose, she punches me in the guts. Repeatedly. Then the face, then back to the guts. I remember picking it out at the library, thinking, Oh yes, a retelling of Sleeping Beauty. How nice. Surely it’s not actually about Nazis. But it is. The events of [...]

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Twitter Digest – 2008-11-25

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

spinning my wheels on a short story. spin spin. # according to @grader, i’m the 7th highest ranked twitterkind in durham. level 65, hooray. # @documentingme i feel bad writing in this pristine of a notebook. i will, as they say, get over it. # digging felguk’s jelly jam (original mix) # “It’s true: / [...]

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The Graveyard Book

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

I don’t think you can know me for very long without realizing I like Neil Gaiman’s writing quite a lot. Some of it’s better than other bits, but over all, the man continues to put out wonderful books. His newest novel, The Graveyard Book, underscores his reputation as a great writer. I read it in [...]

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