If Hitler invaded Hell, I would give a favourable reference to the Devil.
Friday, June 17
Picked up The Hallowed Hunt today. This is the third book in the series that began with The Curse of Chalion, the best book to date by one of my favourite authors, Lois McMaster Bujold (better known for her Miles Vorkosigan novels).
Also in the store was John Varley's latest, Mammoth. I didn't buy that one because (a) it runs foul of Pixy's 77th Law (all books titled "Mammoth" suck), and (b) his last novel, Red Thunder, was complete crap. Maybe when it comes out in paperback.
Update: SPIT! It's US$16.47 at Amazon. Here in Oz it's A$54. Will someone please round up the Australian book publishing and distribution industry and shoot them? Thanks.
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Friday, May 27
Why doesn't "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" translate as "The beautiful woman who never says thankyou"?
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Saturday, February 12
So here I am, browsing through the contents of my iPod. Look, I have three separate copies of Bananarama's Nathan Jones: The extended version from their album Wow; the version from the Rain Man soundtrack, which seems to be the same; and the compress-the-hell-out-of-the-dynamic-range version off their Greatest Hits. Which sounds like dog dirt by comparison.
Now I'm over the formatting debacle, I'm a lot happier with it. But why can't iTunes rip music from multiple CD-ROM drives at once? Huh? Why, Apple? Why?
(I have six versions of Glenn Miller's In the Mood on there too. It's not that I'm a Bananarama freak... Or not just a Bananarama freak.)
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Thursday, December 30
Just got back from seeing The Incredibles with my family.
This film is a work of art. In my opinion, the best film from Pixar to date, and that says a lot. There were only a couple of moments when it slowed down - for the rest of it (and at 2 hours, there was quite a bit of rest of it) I was totally involved in the film.
The short that accompanied it, Boundin', was also a delight, and introduced my family to one of my personal favourite quintessentially American critters, the jackalope. None of them had ever heard of a jackalope before, so they were probably wondering why I was laughing so hard at that point.
Unlike Finding Nemo, The Incredibles isn't for really young children. There's actually a fair bit of violence in the film, and unlike, say, Bugs Bunny, the violence clearly has consequences. But for older children, and for us grown ups who haven't forgotten being children, it's an absolute must-see.
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Saturday, November 06
I've been getting this sudden rush of Google hits, and I just realised why. Here you go, boys and girls, the complete lyrics for TISM's Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me, translated from Pub Strine into fairly standard English for your convenience:
Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Everyone else has had more sex than me.Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does anyone else get that feeling?
Teenagers, naked, couple in threes
Grandparents swing from the ceiling.Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Everyone else has had more sex than me.Corporate capers and office amore.
Shenanigans outdoor and in.
Resist and then later your find out there's more
Regret in not doing the sin.Our lives have to die
Of that there's no help
My favourite way to end them
Is the orb-weaver spider's whose pedipalp
Enters the female pudendum.Then dies on the spot
His corpse there still stuck,
Left for his rivals to curse at.He would rather die than not get to fuck
Personally I reckon it's worth it.Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does anyone else get that feeling?Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does everybody else get that feeling?...
Does everyone think...
Videos here (pure brilliance), website here. Grab yourself a copy of the White Albun today!
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Tuesday, November 02
Cool lyrics of the day:
Our lives have to dieExplanation here.
Of that there's no help.
My favourite way to end them
Is the orb-weaver spider's whose pedipalp
Enters the female pudendum.Then dies on the spot
His corpse there still stuck,
Left for his rivals to curse at.He would rather die than not get to fuck -
Personally I reckon it's worth it.
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Tuesday, July 13
New Janet Evanovich novel. Byee!
Oh, okay, I'll do some welcome emails first. Ppppt!
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Friday, May 07
New Terry Pratchett book. See you tomorrow.
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Wednesday, May 05
The Confusion, which constitutes books 4 and 5 of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver being books 1 through 3), is a rather better-written and more cohesive work than its predecessor.
Indeed, in many ways it is clear that the main purpose of Quicksilver was to set the scene for The Confusion and the concluding volume (to come), The System of the World. A 900-page introduction is still rather on the wordy side, but I agree with what others have said: That The Confusion retroactively improves Quicksilver; and indeed, the way the ending of the former points towards the opening of the latter (and yes, I meant it that way) is rather neat.
In fact, I am now even willing to give Cryptonomicon another go.
(Neal Stephenson's web site, on the other hand, sucks.)
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Sunday, May 02
Just finished reading Quicksilver.
My take: Far too long. Stephenson needs to be ruthlessly edited. Or, you can take the view that it's not a novel, but a collection of short stories and essays, in which case it still needs to be ruthlessly edited.
It's a decent book, and interesting, but it would be a much better book if there was less of it.
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