Feb. 24th, 2009

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1. Today is the launch day for Catherynne M. Valente's Palimpsest. If you want a taste, the short story from which the book came is here. Also, because Cat is seriously made of awesome, there is a trailer:


2. The vendetta of the universe against black-footed ferrets continues. First it was poisoned prairie-dogs, then plagiarism, and now plague. The ray of hope here is that the giant gerbils of Kazakhstan may help save them.

No, you read that right. The giant gerbils of Kazakhstan.

3. [livejournal.com profile] buymeaclue has a beautiful post about what horsemanship is. Hannah's posts regularly make me wish I had the time and the money and the guts for serious equestrianism, and this one is no exception. "There is a crack in everything," Leonard Cohen says. "It's how the light gets in."

4. Yesterday, [livejournal.com profile] matociquala induced an epiphany in me re: John Bellairs and The House with a Clock in its Walls.

5. [livejournal.com profile] ursulav makes me hurt myself laughing on a regular basis. This entry is an excellent representative sample. Also, it reminds me to hope that these pit bulls are continuing to prosper.

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