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typical of my Sundays, i forgot to set an alarm and i'm up and out of bed later than i would've liked to have been, but now i'm up i don't really feel like going anywhere or doing anything useful. so here i am instead.

i'm in the process of doing rewrites for a few things which mostly means i haven't done anything new in a while. rewrites are things i don't particularly relish doing, at least not once i've reached the end of something and i feel like i've put in almost all the things i wanted to put in at the beginning which means going over mostly the same thing and only occasionally adding anything new, or when i've reached the end of something and i feel like i haven't put in the things i wanted to put in it which means basically doing everything over from scratch and not moving on to something else, something different, exciting and new. but rewrites are also things i have to do, for some stories more than others, and they're particularly necessary for the few things i'm working on at the mo.

so i should probably wrap this up and get on with it.

here's something interesting from Neil Gaiman's journal:

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

2008 marks Weird Tales magazine's 85th anniversary and they want your help celebrating the weirdest:

http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/the-85-weirdest/

they're accepting submissions through 31 December 2007, which ordinarily means it's too late and it probably is. still, it's something to look forward to if you like lists. and who doesn't in January?

speaking of lists, i keep forgetting to put this up:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3127837.ece

...a list which has Mervyn Peake, Michael Moorcock and J.G.Ballard on it, which lets me lead into this contest to redesign the cover of the Harper Collins edition of Crash:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3078743.ece

also a tad late, but not too late.

currently reading: La-Bas (The Damned), by J-K Huysmans, which took several false starts in the months since i got a copy but is now going rather well. fingers crossed i actually finish reading this one (this month, i've already picked up and dropped Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Mervyn Peake, James Salter's Solo Faces, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus, Alan Moore's The Voice of the Fire, Russell Hoban's Kleinzeit and Alan Wall's China. all of which i plan on finishing eventually, but probably not before January ends. i've been rather finicky lately.)

on the spinner (literally now, as the CD does seem to sound better than the mp3s and i've recently dug up the old discman): The Bedlam in Goliath, The Mars Volta, which i talked about yesterday here.

right. rewrites. sigh.