Life is busy, but nothing exciting to report. So instead, a couple of nice things you might not have read:
Wired have a collection of incredible six word short stories. The brief was for science fiction, fantasy and horror, so they might not be to your taste, but there are some awfully clever ones. My favourite is by Eileen [...]
Edward Gorey’s Amphigorey. Actually this was last week’s acquisition, the first of the three, courtesy of Ralph (thanks again!). Except that it’s misbound, with half of two stories repeated instead of half of two others, so I’m going to have to send it back. A shame, because apart from that I think it’s the loveliest [...]
It’s crazy busy at the moment, hence the recent shortage of news. But a cd from Mike turned up in the mail yesterday with photos from his visit, and I just had to share the one of Andi (boatmate) rocking it on his cello during our extremely laid-back jam session.
Here’s the photographer; as you can [...]
I received excellent news today: I’m to pay a fine of €20.
I’m not kidding, this is excellent news. I’d expected to have to fork out much more.
Ooh ooh wow oh wow. November 21st can’t come soon enough. Think I might have to buy this one in plastic — a 94-page booklet?! I don’t see myself downloading that, somehow…
House of Leaves, or perhaps I should say “Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, by Zampanò, with introduction and notes by Johnny Truant”. It’s complicated — basically it’s an annotated version of the partially destroyed notes for a critical work concerning a documentary film about a haunted house. Although you could also suggest that the [...]