A Matter of Time
Jul. 14th, 2008 08:45 amDay Watch is spectacular. If you haven't seen it, but have seen Night Watch, DW is bigger, louder, flashier, sexier, and Russianer. If you haven't seen either, you are missing out on some great storytelling and spectacular effects and stunt work.
I finished reading Schismatrix Plus over the weekend, and greatly enjoyed it. I like Bruce Sterling's writing, and the transhuman/posthuman material here is good food for thought, particularly the comparisons between the cybernetic/bionic Mechanists and the genemodding Shapers.
I also read The First Apocalypse, by John Reston. It's a fairly detailed look at Europe around 1000 A.D., with all of the fears of the church and its constituents about the impending return of Christ as a recurring background. Much more focused than John Man's Atlas of the Year 1000, and the two books would likely make for good companion-volume status.
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tegyrius, Gil's All Fright Diner. A werewolf and a vampire encounter an off-the-main-drag diner beseiged by zombies. From there, the vampire falls in love with a ghost trapped in the graveyard across the road, a teenage sorceress attempting to open up a portal for the Old Gods tries to seduce the werewolf, and all manner of other weirdness affects the area. It's a good quick read, plenty funny, and you won't remember it in a year.
Work is going to be fairly awful this week. Only one auto sales rep in the office because of resignation and vacation, and since I'm only there half-time, we're going to be stretched very thin. I'm almost hoping that the new classified manager uses some of her considerable pull within the division to expedite my transfer, which is now a month overdue, and will likely be delayed another month. What a remarkable cockup all this is turning out to be.
Woke up out of a curious dream this morning. I was seeing a movie with an ex, except it looked nothing like her, but it was definitely her. The movie was a "director's/anniversary cut" of a movie that we both had really liked way back when, but of course being a dream, there was no clue as to what the movie actually was.
30 days until GenCon.
I finished reading Schismatrix Plus over the weekend, and greatly enjoyed it. I like Bruce Sterling's writing, and the transhuman/posthuman material here is good food for thought, particularly the comparisons between the cybernetic/bionic Mechanists and the genemodding Shapers.
I also read The First Apocalypse, by John Reston. It's a fairly detailed look at Europe around 1000 A.D., with all of the fears of the church and its constituents about the impending return of Christ as a recurring background. Much more focused than John Man's Atlas of the Year 1000, and the two books would likely make for good companion-volume status.
More reading: a loaner from
tegyrius, Gil's All Fright Diner. A werewolf and a vampire encounter an off-the-main-drag diner beseiged by zombies. From there, the vampire falls in love with a ghost trapped in the graveyard across the road, a teenage sorceress attempting to open up a portal for the Old Gods tries to seduce the werewolf, and all manner of other weirdness affects the area. It's a good quick read, plenty funny, and you won't remember it in a year.Work is going to be fairly awful this week. Only one auto sales rep in the office because of resignation and vacation, and since I'm only there half-time, we're going to be stretched very thin. I'm almost hoping that the new classified manager uses some of her considerable pull within the division to expedite my transfer, which is now a month overdue, and will likely be delayed another month. What a remarkable cockup all this is turning out to be.
Woke up out of a curious dream this morning. I was seeing a movie with an ex, except it looked nothing like her, but it was definitely her. The movie was a "director's/anniversary cut" of a movie that we both had really liked way back when, but of course being a dream, there was no clue as to what the movie actually was.
30 days until GenCon.
