Thursday, June 30, 2005
Oh, great.
Now Blogger is screwing up this blog, too. I know I can't complain too much about a free service, but I'm running two blogs on it, and both of them have gotten corrupted through no fault of my own. The whole point of using Blogger was so that I could quit spending a lot of time futzing around with the code and just post entries quickly; if I can't do that, I might as well not use it.
Discoveries
Via Bookslut, I've just discovered Maureen McHugh, and now I want more, more, more. What did it for me is this:
"We’re not as remote as the classic Presbyterian family (my husband says that in moments of great emotion, the men in his family would shake hands) but we don’t touch each other much."
OMG, I thought, does one of my sisters have a secret life, writing as Maureen McHugh? Or maybe it's my cousin on my father's side. But besides the personal connection, the writing is amazing--even the commentary just flows.
Just yesterday I heard a presentation in which the speaker said he was going to get his 4-year-old a cell phone with a GPS that will--get this--alert him if she wanders outside a parent-specified zone. [Personally, I think the Baby Boomers have forgotten that those neat stories from the 50s by writers like Phillip K. Dick and Robert Sheckley about near-future (now past) dystopias were science fiction.] So I was already considering the implications of this kind of thing, and "Oversite" was quite timely.
"We’re not as remote as the classic Presbyterian family (my husband says that in moments of great emotion, the men in his family would shake hands) but we don’t touch each other much."
OMG, I thought, does one of my sisters have a secret life, writing as Maureen McHugh? Or maybe it's my cousin on my father's side. But besides the personal connection, the writing is amazing--even the commentary just flows.
Just yesterday I heard a presentation in which the speaker said he was going to get his 4-year-old a cell phone with a GPS that will--get this--alert him if she wanders outside a parent-specified zone. [Personally, I think the Baby Boomers have forgotten that those neat stories from the 50s by writers like Phillip K. Dick and Robert Sheckley about near-future (now past) dystopias were science fiction.] So I was already considering the implications of this kind of thing, and "Oversite" was quite timely.
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Then... and again
Monday, June 06, 2005
Coincidence?
So last week I was watching one of my all-time favorite creepy movies, Troll, and I realized that the hero--an adolescent boy who wants to learn magic, before he discovers that his sister has been possessed by an evil troll--is named... wait for it... Harry Potter Jr.. The interesting thing about this (other than that Michael Moriarty plays his father, Harry Potter Sr.) is that Troll came out in 1986. The story is pretty standard and the special effects are really awful, but the music is nice, and it's the only time I've ever seen Gary Sandy play a character other than Andy Travis.
Still. Harry Potter Jr. Weird.
[UPDATE: No, I'm not implying that J.K. Rowling is a plagiarist, or anything like that. Other than the name and June Lockhart's costume, Troll doesn't have a lot in common with the Harry Potter books or movies (see my note about the special effects).]
Still. Harry Potter Jr. Weird.
[UPDATE: No, I'm not implying that J.K. Rowling is a plagiarist, or anything like that. Other than the name and June Lockhart's costume, Troll doesn't have a lot in common with the Harry Potter books or movies (see my note about the special effects).]
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Summer reading
Via Bookslut: a summer reading list that doesn't suck (and also doesn't tell me to read Prep, The Kite Runner, or that other book everybody's all excited about).
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