dear world; book stuff; ramblings
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mimesereyou are ON NOTICE. Go eff yourself.
tomorrow is friday, pay day, and Giant Orc Mounted on a Wolf Statue Woo Hoo Gift Day. I got my Butch Walker Leavin' The Game on Luckie St dvd today and somehow today *still* blows. fuck this noise.
In less aggravating news:
Hey, people who read the telepathic wolves with bonus gay and gangbangin' action -- A Companion to Wolves or some such -- how likely is it to make me want to punch people in the face? 'Cause man, I'm willing to go to the ridiculous telepathic wolves with bonus gay and gangbangin' action place, but Sarah Monette's writing style um. Well. It makes me want to punch all the characters in the face. At least it does in those other books she writes. If it's the same, then I'm giving the wolf thing a pass, despite having many of my favorite things in the basic description. This is ditto Elizabeth Bear. Wait, you know what? Never mind. I will wait till it comes out in paperback as I can stand spending $8 for a book by two authors I normally don't like for telepathic gay wolf shenanigans.
I am currently reading Justina Robson's Quantum Gravity books (Keeping It Real) which have have wacky physics, alternate dimensions, magic, rock and roll, cyborgs, and elves. Entertaining elves. Ooh, also, essentially, a demonic Britney Spears. I am fully in favor. I am probably going to pick up the next book tomorrow.
Cyborg spies, drunk fairies, rock and roll, quantum physics used for cracktastical purposes, and ass-kicking. AWESOME.
Apparently, my secret kink is ridiculous magical spy hijinks. WHO KNEW? Someone should totally get on a ridiculous magical spy hijinks bandom AU. Or, you know, I could go for ridiculous magical spy hijinks in the faux-historical Caribbean.
Also, Rosemary Kirstein needs to come out with a new book soon.
Anyway. I have a dvd to watch and a book to read and tomorrow is Orc Mounted On a Wolf Statue Woohoo Gift Day and that is all awesome. And next week is our department outing to Dave and Busters to play trivia games and pool and eat and get ninety billion tickets. I'm trying to ignore the part where it is also Be At Work By 8 AM Day.
And then soon, I shall have a![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thelionforreal and a ladysorka and a missmollyetc and happy happy concert woo! Also, the FOB *and* Muse dvds drop that week. Ooh, ooh, also, I saw this post from muselive.com come across my flist and I laughed at the idea of Jon Walker fanboying Matt Bellamy some more.
why hello there, mood swings, how are you today? Also, the failblog makes me giggle every time.
And this: http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/4488/noonealivech0.jpg makes me laugh and laugh and laugh every time I look at it.
Okay, and? You guys, where is the fic where Patrick Stump is as crazy in love with Pete as Pete is with him, but he's just WAY better at hiding it? Not that I don't um, occasionally really like jailbait Patrick stuff, but come on, I want successful confident total-music-whore Patrick *now* being crazy in love. OH PATRICK STUMP, YOU ARE THE MARVIEST. Seriously, I don't know how it is that I am surprised *every time* by how good IOH and FUCT are, but I am.
Conversation I had at work:
boy I was totally not dating: "So, why is Jay-Z on that one Fall Out Boy song?"
me: "He likes them. Also he's their boss."
boy: "Really?"
me: "Well, he's the boss of Def Jam, which is half of the label they're on."
boy: "Wait, really?"
me: "Well, yeah, Island/Def Jam. Also, he likes them. He totally gave themthe ultimate ghetto pass Roc-A-Fella Records bling as a gift. But mostly he likes them."
boy: "Jay-Z likes Fall Out Boy."
me: "Yes."
boy: "*Jay-Z*."
me: "So does Kanye West. And Lupe Fiasco. And the Roots."
boy: "Are you shitting me?"
me: "Well, they like Patrick Stump, anyway."
icon keywords: action transvestite. An Eddie Izzard photo that makes me chortle with glee. It is one of my (many) icons of gleefulness. And or cheerful queerness. Or loving Eddie Izzard.
tomorrow is friday, pay day, and Giant Orc Mounted on a Wolf Statue Woo Hoo Gift Day. I got my Butch Walker Leavin' The Game on Luckie St dvd today and somehow today *still* blows. fuck this noise.
In less aggravating news:
Hey, people who read the telepathic wolves with bonus gay and gangbangin' action -- A Companion to Wolves or some such -- how likely is it to make me want to punch people in the face? 'Cause man, I'm willing to go to the ridiculous telepathic wolves with bonus gay and gangbangin' action place, but Sarah Monette's writing style um. Well. It makes me want to punch all the characters in the face. At least it does in those other books she writes. If it's the same, then I'm giving the wolf thing a pass, despite having many of my favorite things in the basic description. This is ditto Elizabeth Bear. Wait, you know what? Never mind. I will wait till it comes out in paperback as I can stand spending $8 for a book by two authors I normally don't like for telepathic gay wolf shenanigans.
I am currently reading Justina Robson's Quantum Gravity books (Keeping It Real) which have have wacky physics, alternate dimensions, magic, rock and roll, cyborgs, and elves. Entertaining elves. Ooh, also, essentially, a demonic Britney Spears. I am fully in favor. I am probably going to pick up the next book tomorrow.
Cyborg spies, drunk fairies, rock and roll, quantum physics used for cracktastical purposes, and ass-kicking. AWESOME.
Apparently, my secret kink is ridiculous magical spy hijinks. WHO KNEW? Someone should totally get on a ridiculous magical spy hijinks bandom AU. Or, you know, I could go for ridiculous magical spy hijinks in the faux-historical Caribbean.
Also, Rosemary Kirstein needs to come out with a new book soon.
Anyway. I have a dvd to watch and a book to read and tomorrow is Orc Mounted On a Wolf Statue Woohoo Gift Day and that is all awesome. And next week is our department outing to Dave and Busters to play trivia games and pool and eat and get ninety billion tickets. I'm trying to ignore the part where it is also Be At Work By 8 AM Day.
And then soon, I shall have a
thelionforreal and a ladysorka and a missmollyetc and happy happy concert woo! Also, the FOB *and* Muse dvds drop that week. Ooh, ooh, also, I saw this post from muselive.com come across my flist and I laughed at the idea of Jon Walker fanboying Matt Bellamy some more.why hello there, mood swings, how are you today? Also, the failblog makes me giggle every time.
And this: http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/4488/noonealivech0.jpg makes me laugh and laugh and laugh every time I look at it.
Okay, and? You guys, where is the fic where Patrick Stump is as crazy in love with Pete as Pete is with him, but he's just WAY better at hiding it? Not that I don't um, occasionally really like jailbait Patrick stuff, but come on, I want successful confident total-music-whore Patrick *now* being crazy in love. OH PATRICK STUMP, YOU ARE THE MARVIEST. Seriously, I don't know how it is that I am surprised *every time* by how good IOH and FUCT are, but I am.
Conversation I had at work:
boy I was totally not dating: "So, why is Jay-Z on that one Fall Out Boy song?"
me: "He likes them. Also he's their boss."
boy: "Really?"
me: "Well, he's the boss of Def Jam, which is half of the label they're on."
boy: "Wait, really?"
me: "Well, yeah, Island/Def Jam. Also, he likes them. He totally gave them
boy: "Jay-Z likes Fall Out Boy."
me: "Yes."
boy: "*Jay-Z*."
me: "So does Kanye West. And Lupe Fiasco. And the Roots."
boy: "Are you shitting me?"
me: "Well, they like Patrick Stump, anyway."
icon keywords: action transvestite. An Eddie Izzard photo that makes me chortle with glee. It is one of my (many) icons of gleefulness. And or cheerful queerness. Or loving Eddie Izzard.
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Date: 2008-03-14 06:12 am (UTC)A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-14 06:45 am (UTC)Dude, I think I should still have it on my bookshelves somewhere. If I can find it tomorrow I will send it to you gratis.
I have no idea if the writing would make you want to punch someone in the face. Um. I like both the authors, usually, and the writing for this one didn't necessarily remind me of either. So...
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Date: 2008-03-14 06:55 am (UTC)Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-14 06:59 am (UTC)And I am...really weirdly picky about books which, admittedly, given my singular taste in books, is probably not the way I should be. I was put off Elizabeth Bear by Blood and Iron which was just really, really not to my taste at all and I've picked up Melusine like, five times and put it down every time because the first few pages were iffy enough that I didn't want to spend the money. I know a *lot* of people who like both of them, but yeah. I don't even know. It could have been a bad timing issue too. That happens to me sometimes.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 07:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 08:04 am (UTC)(And I think Patrick exudes magical "everyone will love me!" rays. Because, dude. He is amazing and awesome and everyone does.)
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 08:22 am (UTC)P.S. I got my Bamboozle Left Tickets today!!!
Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-14 12:51 pm (UTC)I hate her introductions, but once I got past the first 20-50 pages, I actually really liked Bear's stuff. I could go for denouments that were a little more lived in (they're sort of like the Love Boat, in that people say, "I'm going off to live in the Archmidedes Complex with my grandma and clivak jaksom!" but we don't know where Archimedes is, clivakking jaksom was mentioned in passing one time, and Grandma is a character we've only run into via phone), but other than that, they're good, complex characters full of people trying to make change, some of them to do what's right and some of them for the completely wrong reasons but they mainly learn better or die, and very little whiny douchebaggery.
P.S. There are these weird bookstores called 'libraries' that let you try out books before you buy them. For free!
Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-14 03:43 pm (UTC)And I trust you! So if there is a minimum of whiny douchebaggery, then I will try it (as the impression of whiny douchebaggery was pretty much what kept me putting down Melusine).
My library kind of blows. New books -- books that are a year old or newer -- have a rental fee and the selection is not great, so I tend to just pick the books up myself.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 03:49 pm (UTC)And my hope is that gay telepathic gangbanging wolves are either going to hit my happy crack kinks or be so hilariously wtf inducing that I can coast on making fun of it.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 03:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 03:52 pm (UTC)Yes, yes, yes. Exactly like that. I must ponder this more!
p.s. YAY!
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 03:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 04:05 pm (UTC)Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-14 04:06 pm (UTC)Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-14 04:09 pm (UTC)Oh, gods, does Melusine start out with Felix's POV? Because Felix is pretty consistently a whiney douchebag and I want to punch him in the face ALL THE TIME. I love Mildmay beyond reason, though, and a bunch other recurring characters as well. Just. GRR. STUPID FELIX.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 04:13 pm (UTC)Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-14 04:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 04:49 pm (UTC)You were so right about Lupe Fiasco.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 05:54 pm (UTC)call me later, tell me about the statue
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 06:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 07:21 pm (UTC)Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-14 07:35 pm (UTC)Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-14 07:48 pm (UTC)Plus the computers suck. Given how much money my county has, the deplorable state of the library system is just depressing.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 08:11 pm (UTC)Lupe Fiasco is fantastically entertaining. Also a giant (angry) dork.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 08:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 08:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 08:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 09:21 pm (UTC)It wasn't bad. Not GREAT, but okay.
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Date: 2008-03-14 10:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 11:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-15 02:34 am (UTC)Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-15 03:13 am (UTC)Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-15 06:25 am (UTC)Re: A Companion to Wolves
Date: 2008-03-15 06:38 pm (UTC)