nonblogging; or, unreliable narrators rock hairy anus

it didn't take me long to decide i had to say something about this. just got out from between the covers, in fact; however i refuse to say that i'm back to blogging; still, i just spent half a day devouring an entire book. now me, i'm a slow reader; nothing like that has happened in a long time. especially not while i'm, er, otherwise preoccupied.

in fact, i don't think i've read an entire book in a day (much less half a day) since i burned my eyes out on my brother's Hardy Boys collection and a few Robotech novels. (not even, methinks, with Lemony Snicket's books.)

so Javier Cercas' 'Speed of Light' is definitely of note in my, er, book.

in case that isn't clear, yes, Javier Cercas' 'Speed of Light' is the book i've just finished reading, and it's the book that i'm pimping right now as being utterly amazing enough for me to have spent an entire half a day to finish without feeling i'd wasted a minute of my weekend, and then haul my skinny arse right over here to tell you about it. might go and do it again tomorrow, in fact, if i didn't have other umpety-umpety things to do, and a whole bunch of other books to get through. i could tell you more about it, but that would be blogging, wouldn't it?

now while i'm here, i suppose i might as well pimp a few other things i've read so far these past couple or so months that i really think more people ought to be reading:

Rupert Thomson's 'Death of a Murderer'
James Salter's 'A Sport and a Pastime'
Anais Nin's 'Children of the Albatross'
Rupert Thomson's 'Death of a Murderer'
Richard Feynman's 'QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter'

(i refrain from adding M. John Harrison's 'Nova Swing' to the list because i'm pretty sure some of you are sick of hearing about it from me by now.)

(and yes, that's Rupert Thomson's 'Death of Murderer' twice, because there's a book i really really really think more people should be reading.)

have i said all of the above books are amazing for both very different and very similar reasons that you should go find out for yourselves? i haven't? well now i have.

currently reading:
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky's 'Roadside Picnic'
Anais Nin's 'A Spy in the House of Love'

about to read:
Ian McEwan's 'The Child in Time'
Albert Einstein's 'Relativity'

on the spinner:
David Holmes' 'Ocean's Thirteen' motion picture soundtrack
Maroon 5's 'It Won't Be Soon Before Long'

meanwhile, in lieu of a proper blogpost, i present this little conundrum: my right hand informs me that i'm statistically more likely than the average joe to be gay, though my left hand insists i'm more likely not. what's up with that?

The Capital Kyu Strikes Again

yes, the clever among you have probably figured out that that be my new-ish nick for the utterly capital Kenneth Yu, editor of the Digest of Philippine Genre Stories. feel free to use it when you address him or in any other way happen to refer to him. (that's simply 'Q' in SMS or email speak.)

right. no, keep it in your pants, i'm not back to blogging just yet, but i'm here to say, yes, the Q strikes again! (that's still pronounced 'Capital Kyu', by the by, in case that wasn't clear.)

this time, he's got a nifty little trailer to announce his return (i'd want one for 'Saint', too, if it hadn't been written to be 'unfilmable'):



this be also viewable through the following link, where there be excerpts:

http://philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com/2007/06/issue-number-3_25.html

and, ostensibly, somewhere on youtube.

whoddathunk,,,

...Mr Don Herbert would get me to blog again. just this once, of course, but still.

i know i'm coming late to this; if it wasn't for Stephen Colbert i might never have found out until it was much, much, much too late to say anything at all.

being as it's already too late anyway, i won't say anything more.

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Jakarta, Indonesia

tomorrow til Tuesday. work work work.

fyi.

(now wasn't that far more efficient than any of that ballyhoo i used to bother with?)