{"id":576,"date":"2010-09-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/05\/weekly-tweet-digest-2010-09-05\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T17:44:30","slug":"weekly-tweet-digest-2010-09-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/05\/weekly-tweet-digest-2010-09-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-09-05"},"content":{"rendered":"

if @plasticbrentley<\/a> and @tofermoran<\/a> were police officers. http:\/\/bit.ly\/clJr5F<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
today's new music: the books – the way out. http:\/\/bit.ly\/cyXZVX<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
new music: royksopp – senior. http:\/\/bit.ly\/bpzYty<\/a> (via & thanks to @jephjacques<\/a>) #<\/a><\/li>\n
@vyemoran<\/a> good to know my subliminal crib speakers are still working. finn's say "i will be a nobel prize winning playwright." in reply to vyemoran<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
http:\/\/bit.ly\/74Lpnl<\/a> bloodelephant and friends. #<\/a><\/li>\n
instead of blog posts about all the backlog of books i read last year & change, i’m going to use twitter. #lazy #books<\/li>\n
Cacioppo, J; Patrick, W – Loneliness. nonfic. all i remember is the story about monkeys & dolls-why do we always torture the monkeys? #books<\/li>\n
Ballard, JG – Crash. i read it on a roadtrip; you should not. instruction manual sex & heavy cars & violence & personal isolation #books<\/li>\n
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke – Rashomon & Other Stories. chunky prose that feels translated. stark venomous shorts. standout: “in a grove” #books<\/li>\n
Ballard, JG – War Fever. some effective shortstories, some gimmicky ones. standout: “Report on an Unidentified Space Station” #books <\/li>\n
Barker, Clive – The Thief of Always. tighter structured than coraline but not as visceral. #books<\/li>\n
Beagle, Peter S – A Fine and Private Place. quiet book in which not much happens. wellobserved, poignant, & welldrawn. a scout. #books<\/li>\n
Black, Holly – Tithe. brilliant first sentence, constant obstacles & a quick read. her current books far outstrip this, though. #books<\/li>\n
Black, Holly – White Cat. frothing fan of cassel & his hurting ways. watch him make doomed decisions. also: scams. #books<\/li>\n
Black, Holly – Ironside. i’m a sucker for faerie politics and angst and running around. #books<\/li>\n
Black, Holly – Valiant. my favorite of this series. drugs & homeless kids & fairies (& a troll). more running around. #books<\/li>\n
Brecht, Bertold – The Threepenny Opera. first: the beggar’s guild. & amazing music, once weill gets to it. #books<\/li>\n
@hollyblack they say it takes something like ten years to master a craft, & judging by the difference between tithe & white cat, that’s true<\/li>\n
@hollyblack & anyhow i enjoyed tithe too, so no sad points for it–i read it in one sitting. but white cat is ++good, and blows the rest out<\/li>\n
@hollyblack all deserved, of course. you put people in some untenable situations. i’m waiting with the twitchyeye for red glove to come out.<\/li>\n
the longer i watch this dog dance, the more i wonder: what if the bomb fantasies of the 50s were prophecies of mercy? http:\/\/bit.ly\/achMyB<\/a><\/li>\n
Bukowski, Charles – Factotum. seedy people drunkenly doing bad things to one another. grit & poetry. #books<\/li>\n
Calvino, Italo – Invisible Cities. read this after marco polo. the world should be filled with cities like these & i’m sad it’s not. #books<\/li>\n
hanging sheets to dry in the upper room (have to ascend a ladder). first thought was: “man, this would make a pretty sweet bedouin fort.”<\/li>\n
Collins, Billy – Sailing Alone Around the Room. sweaterweather fresh air and teatime poetry. #books<\/li>\n
Crais, Robert – The Monkey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Raincoat. quick and smooth, arresting characters; renewed noir, which means a fresh, human protagonist. #book<\/li>\n
de Saint-Exup\u00c3\u00a9ry, Antoine – Wind, Sand and Stars. i love every part of this book. i want a biplane. best storm description i’ve read. #book<\/li>\n
Delany, Samuel R – Dhalgren. hazy odd future that feels like the sixties. sex, philosophy, loops of interaction, but readable & clear #books<\/li>\n
Disch, Thomas – Camp Concentration. claustrophobic, insideout feeling. reminded me of the camp in v for vendetta. smart selfdestruct #books<\/li>\n
Dorfman, Ariel – Desert Memories. initially drew me to chile. stories of miners & their now obsolete way of life. #books<\/li>\n
“Ist mir m\u00c3\u00aen leben getroumet, oder is es war?” — Walther von der Vogelweide<\/li>\n
Ellison, Harlan – Dangerous Visions. best anthology in sf, designed to push publisher censorship. not a single bum story. leiber ftw #books<\/li>\n
Forster, EM – Aspects of the Novel. aspirational analysis, a peptalk on what’s possible. and again: books are about people. #books<\/li>\n
Fraser, George MacDonald – Flashman. q: how offensive can we make this protagonist? a: rather quite, pip pip. #books<\/li>\n
Freeman, Grace Beachum – Midnight to Dawn. tranquil, nature loving poetry; gardens, time, & loss. standout: boy watching a mushroom. #books<\/li>\n
Gaiman, Neil – M is for Magic. shortstories not necessarily for kids, collected. standout: how to talk to girls at parties. #books<\/li>\n
today explained in spanish: philosophy of minimalist rock & roll, various etymological influences of english, & why american girls are loud.<\/li>\n
Gaiman, Neil; Zulli, Michael – The Last Temptation. the first of gaiman’s comics i haven’t really liked. mopping bradbury’s gravy. #books<\/li>\n
Gardner, John – On Becoming A Novelist. you will be poor. work is hard. pay attention. #books<\/li>\n
Garner, Alan – The Owl Service. an entirely foreign fantasy. legends are coming & they don’t care for you. more welsh than s. cooper #books<\/li>\n
RT @lizargall: Listening to Kim Stanley Robinson’s guest of honor speech http:\/\/bit.ly\/anV5m1<\/a> Delightful & wonderful via @garykemble #aus4<\/li>\n
with smashing vocals by @vyemoran RT @tofermoran: In The Circuit Of The Sun “Light Out For The Territory”: http:\/\/bit.ly\/9pDpyP<\/a><\/li>\n
i have been summoned for jury duty in another hemisphere. my reaction has been both sedate and reasoned.<\/li>\n
A LINGERING ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT INFECTION IN YOUR EYES AND THE EYES OF ALL YOUR HOUSE FOR ALL TIME, BUREAUCRACY OF AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
if @plasticbrentley and @tofermoran were police officers. http:\/\/bit.ly\/clJr5F # today's new music: the books – the way out. http:\/\/bit.ly\/cyXZVX # new music: royksopp – senior. http:\/\/bit.ly\/bpzYty (via & thanks to @jephjacques) # @vyemoran good to know my subliminal crib speakers are still working. finn's say "i will be a nobel prize winning playwright." in reply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}