Monthly Archives: May 2009

Oh, that's funny

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All three books are described as “A Modern Tale of Faerie”, and that’s what they are, putting faeries in prosaic locations like New Jersey and New York City — hardly the first or the last time it’s been done. They actually reminded me a lot of the Bedlam’s Bard series by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill, only not quite as complex. (link)

I giggled a bit at this, ’cause though I did love the BB books when I was in high school, I’d call them some of the most *straightforward* and un-complex of the early crop of “modern faerie” novels. “Folk of the Air” and “Jack the Giant Killer” might be better examples. Really, if you’re looking at something less complex than the BB books, I’m wondering how stripped down the genre’s gotten.

You may be missing the point

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There comes a time in most everyone’s life where they realize that their idols are… less than idol-licious.

These people that I had admired my entire New York existence ? they all disappointed me. I don’t understand how people can exist in such a dishonest way and still call themselves writers. (nymag)

It usually looks somewhat like that, but I’d make the comment that the author is confusing what one needs to be a writer with what one needs to be a decent human being. (One can be a halfway decent writer while having not the least shred of humanity, and many’s the intellectual who’s gone that route.)

This is somewhat paraphrased

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Manager: BigBoss is putting even more pressure on us to complete the database project of doom. You need to work faster. I may get a metronome or whip for this very reason.

Me: I will bean you in the head with a metronome and the idea of you with a whip skeeves me. I will use it to trip you and make you fall down.

Manager: Oh. But we do need to work faster.

Me: No prob. I’ll just put the rest of my job on hold today, ‘kay?

Manager: Sounds good.

Put down the stylus dear…

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It’s a lovely day out and I will not spend the whole thing working on paintings. Really. I shouldn’t have even opened the damn file but the shadows need more work before I can even think about adding more background texture, not to mention the book-in-progress that I haven’t worked on in a week and the housework that’s sitting around not getting done either and…

Ok. Chilling out now. :) And walking away from the computer. Um, right after I run a backup.