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Reading: THE MAGICIAN and Easter Wine
Music: Billy Bragg and The Clash
TV/Movie: Family Guy
Link o' the Day: Efanzines.com
Looks like I found our third roommate for Torcon! Woohoo!
Got a couple of more Bulletin articles done tonight and got a good amount of time in writing. Now that it's TV finale season, I doubt I'll call off tomorrow night's work because of The West Wing (unless it's one I haven't seen yet) although I should get cracking on a little bit more of The Great Apartment Purge before Pretty Maggie arrives this weekend. It's amazing how quickly I can amass piles of stuff when I'm not paying attention. Case in point--my desk which was nice and clear this past weekend is now teetering with stacks of data CDs, DVD and CD cases, envelopes, correspondence, junk mail, bills, folders, notes, and so on. It's sort of like that scene in The Birds where the woman is sitting on the park bench and there are one or two birds behind her on the jungle gym, then a few more... then a few more.. then a couple of _hundred_ more!
Frightening.
I picked up Tecumseh and Whisps tonight for work. I feel pretty good about it, despite the mess on my desk.
THE MAGICIAN has taken a really dark turn. Maybe not entirely unexpected, but darker than I picture an author like Maugham taking. Granted, it's an earlier work and he's taking some chances and having some fun, but yeesh. There is a lot in the story about evil, and the nature of evil. And what is magic and what is imagination. What happens in the story can't be explained away by simple hypnosis. I'm starting to have thoughts on the nature of evil and free will, but have been too busy lately to do more than just mull things over. Mayhaps when the book is finished in the next day or two I can meditate upon this some more.
As a writer, I'm finding it an useful and intriguing exploration of thought. I have a hard time writing bad guys, and this may give me some insight. There's some attention spent on tragedy as well--another thing I have a hard time writing about. I'm tempted to go find a copy of Camus's THE PLAGUE soon.
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Today's link of the day is a repeat, Efanzines.com, but for a reason. There's been some loose, wild talk lately on one of the fannish e-lists about trying to get Bill Burn's Efanzines.com a special recognition award at the next Hugos. I don't know how receptive the Torcon committee will be to something like this, but I'd be willing to do what I could to get the site some special recognition at the 2004 Worldcon in Boston if Torcon doesn't work.
What's the big deal, you ask? Anyone who is interested in looking into the current state of fanzine fandom should look to Efanzines.com for their start. The majority of fanzines being passed around today are available there either in archive or in link for easy download and it's a great way to begin one's involvement with fanzine fandom. And it's an international sort of site with 'zines from the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
Every now and then the topic of the "graying of fandom" crops up on the fannish e-lists and while each you you get one-or-two folks under-40 entering the scene, I doubt they'd get even that without the readily-available zines at this site. I can only see the potential for this site going up.
Music: Billy Bragg and The Clash
TV/Movie: Family Guy
Link o' the Day: Efanzines.com
Looks like I found our third roommate for Torcon! Woohoo!
Got a couple of more Bulletin articles done tonight and got a good amount of time in writing. Now that it's TV finale season, I doubt I'll call off tomorrow night's work because of The West Wing (unless it's one I haven't seen yet) although I should get cracking on a little bit more of The Great Apartment Purge before Pretty Maggie arrives this weekend. It's amazing how quickly I can amass piles of stuff when I'm not paying attention. Case in point--my desk which was nice and clear this past weekend is now teetering with stacks of data CDs, DVD and CD cases, envelopes, correspondence, junk mail, bills, folders, notes, and so on. It's sort of like that scene in The Birds where the woman is sitting on the park bench and there are one or two birds behind her on the jungle gym, then a few more... then a few more.. then a couple of _hundred_ more!
Frightening.
I picked up Tecumseh and Whisps tonight for work. I feel pretty good about it, despite the mess on my desk.
THE MAGICIAN has taken a really dark turn. Maybe not entirely unexpected, but darker than I picture an author like Maugham taking. Granted, it's an earlier work and he's taking some chances and having some fun, but yeesh. There is a lot in the story about evil, and the nature of evil. And what is magic and what is imagination. What happens in the story can't be explained away by simple hypnosis. I'm starting to have thoughts on the nature of evil and free will, but have been too busy lately to do more than just mull things over. Mayhaps when the book is finished in the next day or two I can meditate upon this some more.
As a writer, I'm finding it an useful and intriguing exploration of thought. I have a hard time writing bad guys, and this may give me some insight. There's some attention spent on tragedy as well--another thing I have a hard time writing about. I'm tempted to go find a copy of Camus's THE PLAGUE soon.
* * *
Today's link of the day is a repeat, Efanzines.com, but for a reason. There's been some loose, wild talk lately on one of the fannish e-lists about trying to get Bill Burn's Efanzines.com a special recognition award at the next Hugos. I don't know how receptive the Torcon committee will be to something like this, but I'd be willing to do what I could to get the site some special recognition at the 2004 Worldcon in Boston if Torcon doesn't work.
What's the big deal, you ask? Anyone who is interested in looking into the current state of fanzine fandom should look to Efanzines.com for their start. The majority of fanzines being passed around today are available there either in archive or in link for easy download and it's a great way to begin one's involvement with fanzine fandom. And it's an international sort of site with 'zines from the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
Every now and then the topic of the "graying of fandom" crops up on the fannish e-lists and while each you you get one-or-two folks under-40 entering the scene, I doubt they'd get even that without the readily-available zines at this site. I can only see the potential for this site going up.
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