Black Cherry Blues

[tracker7]

It is a cool and very windy morning.  We've had a lot of stormy weather (go on, sing, you know you want to) in the past few days, but thankfully nothing like much of the southeast and northeast.  My aunt's home (Logan County, W. Va.) was surrounded by high water, and there are two people in the county reported missing.  Flood warnings out in the eastern end of Kentucky.

Instead of the Horsemen game (Lexington 66, Ohio Valley 33), Erin and I spent yesterday afternoon at the LexPubLib.  She tried to find biographical information on Danny Elfman, and I tried to read one of Kevin Anderson and The Younger Herbert's Dune prequels.  Very quickly, I abandoned that in favor of a book on steam locomotives.

She is now hooked on the Discovery Channel's Planet Earth series.  It is absolutely beautiful.

Comments

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

Kevin Anderson has written some good stuff, but also a lot of crap.

I've been morbidly fascinated by the people who are running the Boston Marathon today in gale force winds and freezing rain.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

My first exposure to Anderson's stuff was his Star
Wars work, and it was utter shit. His original stuff isn't bad, but I think he really shines as an editor. I've got a handful of anthologies where he's credited as such, and the stories are very tight and nicely in line with each other.

He's also one of the most effective names in the electronic anti-piracy drive, and for those efforts, I'm willing to overlook some of his sins.

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

I read Resurrection Inc. many years ago, and I remember liking it, though I could tell you nothing about it now.

[spoe.livejournal.com]

...I tried to read one of Kevin Anderson and The Younger Herbert's Dune prequels. Very quickly, I abandoned that in favor of a book on steam locomotives.

Good choice. Pretty abysmal, aren't they?

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

I try to give any book 100 pages before I put it away. I tried. I really did.

[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

It is windy liek woah here too. Like scary windy. Like I'm wondering if a hurricane is imminent windy.