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1. Thank you to everyone who has expressed enthusiasm for the podcast of Chapter 2. I was surprised and very pleased at how happy it seems to make people.
2. I would be more impressed with the Oxford World's Classics collection of M. R. James stories, and with Michael Chabon's introduction thereto, if someone had noticed that Chabon gets the name of the main character of "'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad'" wrong.
2a. Someone could probably do something interesting with James' "The Malice of Inanimate Objects" and Robert Benchley's essay on the same theme. Same starting point, and even some of the same tone, but radically different effects.
3. Two short story rejections in two days, both for very good reasons. I am baffled and disheartened at how easily I seem to have slid from writing good short stories to writing short stories that don't work--if I manage to write short stories at all. Also, I am trunking the zombie coyotes until they give me more story in their story.
3a. "Baffled and disheartened" is a pretty good description of how I feel about my writing and my career in general these days.
3b. Don't mind me. I'll just stand here in the rain and eat thistles.
4. As John Scalzi points out, Carl Sagan's Cosmos is available on Hulu.
5. I can't even think of a fifth thing, so have two videos of cats being, well, cats. The first is cute (and with extra bonus fennec!); the second is hilarious. My heart belongs to Bag Cat.
2. I would be more impressed with the Oxford World's Classics collection of M. R. James stories, and with Michael Chabon's introduction thereto, if someone had noticed that Chabon gets the name of the main character of "'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad'" wrong.
2a. Someone could probably do something interesting with James' "The Malice of Inanimate Objects" and Robert Benchley's essay on the same theme. Same starting point, and even some of the same tone, but radically different effects.
3. Two short story rejections in two days, both for very good reasons. I am baffled and disheartened at how easily I seem to have slid from writing good short stories to writing short stories that don't work--if I manage to write short stories at all. Also, I am trunking the zombie coyotes until they give me more story in their story.
3a. "Baffled and disheartened" is a pretty good description of how I feel about my writing and my career in general these days.
3b. Don't mind me. I'll just stand here in the rain and eat thistles.
4. As John Scalzi points out, Carl Sagan's Cosmos is available on Hulu.
5. I can't even think of a fifth thing, so have two videos of cats being, well, cats. The first is cute (and with extra bonus fennec!); the second is hilarious. My heart belongs to Bag Cat.
