no this isn't a list of my books. am way too disorganized (read: lazy) to do that sort of thing, make lists and things. however, of late, i *have* been consumed with the problem of how to organize my little Library of Chaos, and stumbled into this through Mr Gaiman's blog:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4182224
of course, it's far more likely i'll be putting everything in boxes any which way they'll fit (i'd start out neatly, almost obsessively, meticulously sorting books by author or genre or target audience or cover texture or probability of sticking or probability of getting a mildew infection or probability of spreading a mildew infection or general state of wear or size, but eventually digress into shoving them into every gap, corner and/or crawlspace available, i expect. i'm just that sort of guy), and ship them out of the apartment.
in other matters, Banzai Cat has put-up a free-for-all story idea, in case anyone's interested.
anyone at all interested in M. John Harrison would do well to check out Uncle Zip's Window. i'm now more or less convinced that the man has low latent inhibition, the same 'condition' that purportedly makes the Wentworth Miller character on Prison Break a 'genius'.
i find it interesting how both autism and low latent inhibition are thought to play a roll in that thing the rest of us call 'genius'. though i personally suspect that they aren't mutually exclusive (and perhaps i'm mistaken, my google investigations not really making me an expert on the matter), their definitions to my mind put them on opposite ends of the spectrum of subjective experience.
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R.I.P.: Joseph Barbera, definitely one of the shapers of my life.
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saw ep 3.3 of House ('Informed Consent', reviewed by Scott over on politedissent here) last night and the medicine is getting horrendously bad. despite everything i said a couple posts ago, am starting to feel exasperated meself with the 'medical mystery' angle of the show. you can only push the Star-Trek-technobabble-analogy so far; after all, House, unlike ST, has the burden of 'provable' and 'known' real-world facts weighing down on it...am on my way to see what Scott has to say now.
perhaps House's penchant for General Hospital is meant to be a sort of post-modern-ish comment on the show...soap operas *do* tend to abuse the 'average viewer's' lack of 'extensive medical knowledge', and House proves to be no exception, but, while it's simply dumb for shows like GH, i have to admit it seems plain irresponsible for a show that purports to be 'smart'. certainly, in its way, House is far more 'intellectually stimulating' than GH, but 'smart'...? more and more i find myself waiting for them to just drop the whole 'medical mystery' angle and go full-on with the soap opera side of the show...which, imho, won't be so bad. Scrubs, for instance, rarely delves into actual medicine, focusing on aspects of the *practice* itself and on the people, thereby managing to be 'truer-to-life' than most shows of the 'medical drama' genre i enjoy (imho).
will Dr Gregory House and his team redeem themselves in coming episodes? stay tuned...
1 comment:
Heh. I remember reading that article before, coloring the bookshop in different colors. Personally, I'm the same as you- finding the last space available anywhere and sliding a book into it. (Which is why Zoran Zivkovic reads my dreams.)
On the other hand, I gotta clarify: I picked up the 15-minute thing from some fellow bloggers and I've used it to write vignettes to sharpen my hand. Usually it's concepts that I can't get out of my head but I can't do as a short story.
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