Various Things Which Do Not Make a Post
Jun. 24th, 2014 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessWow. Hadn't realized just how much time had gone by since I blogged here. Partly this has been illness; partly the complete lack of a blogging bug. But, still, a few random things from here and there:
1. A biography/history that for once, I don't have any real complaints about: Superman: The High Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero. Definitely on the popular side, with sex! Murder! (Ok, to be fair, insinuations and discussions of murder.) Flying accidents! Lawsuits! Quotes from basketball players! Gossipy little tidbits! A failure to completely get all the decisions made with Smallville! (We all feel you there, Mr. Tye, we all feel you.) Interviews with all of the (not murdered) still alive people involved with Superman! Analysis of why the dude is so popular. The book stops short of reviewing Man of Steel, since it went to print before the movie, but otherwise does a pretty thorough job of following Superman through newspapers, comic books, radio, television and film. Nothing deep here, but a fun pop culture history with more Superman gossip than you probably ever needed to know.
2. I'm not against the general idea of leaving politics out of Hugo voting, but if you really want me to seriously consider, say, your novelette for a major literary award, it might help if you did not spend the day spreading false allegations about a professional writers group that I happen to be a member of.
Just saying.
3. Speaking of the Hugos, I seem to have most of my plans in place for my upcoming trip to World Con and Shamrockon in August. This is my first trip to the UK in awhile, and my first trip ever to Ireland, so this should be interesting. Also I will be crossing the Irish Sea in a boat, which should be very interesting, so this is a general warning to those I'm meeting in Dublin that I don't expect to be overly coherent at first, especially if Macnamman mac Lir chooses to be unkind. Let us hope.
4. On a World Cup note, I was very sad to hear that today's headlines about the Biter From Uraguay did not, in fact, mean that the World Cup is now featuring teams of vampires biting each other between ball kicks. World Cup, you disappoint me. On the other hand, VAMOS COLOMBIA!
1. A biography/history that for once, I don't have any real complaints about: Superman: The High Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero. Definitely on the popular side, with sex! Murder! (Ok, to be fair, insinuations and discussions of murder.) Flying accidents! Lawsuits! Quotes from basketball players! Gossipy little tidbits! A failure to completely get all the decisions made with Smallville! (We all feel you there, Mr. Tye, we all feel you.) Interviews with all of the (not murdered) still alive people involved with Superman! Analysis of why the dude is so popular. The book stops short of reviewing Man of Steel, since it went to print before the movie, but otherwise does a pretty thorough job of following Superman through newspapers, comic books, radio, television and film. Nothing deep here, but a fun pop culture history with more Superman gossip than you probably ever needed to know.
2. I'm not against the general idea of leaving politics out of Hugo voting, but if you really want me to seriously consider, say, your novelette for a major literary award, it might help if you did not spend the day spreading false allegations about a professional writers group that I happen to be a member of.
Just saying.
3. Speaking of the Hugos, I seem to have most of my plans in place for my upcoming trip to World Con and Shamrockon in August. This is my first trip to the UK in awhile, and my first trip ever to Ireland, so this should be interesting. Also I will be crossing the Irish Sea in a boat, which should be very interesting, so this is a general warning to those I'm meeting in Dublin that I don't expect to be overly coherent at first, especially if Macnamman mac Lir chooses to be unkind. Let us hope.
4. On a World Cup note, I was very sad to hear that today's headlines about the Biter From Uraguay did not, in fact, mean that the World Cup is now featuring teams of vampires biting each other between ball kicks. World Cup, you disappoint me. On the other hand, VAMOS COLOMBIA!
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Date: 2014-06-25 04:09 pm (UTC)Hope to see you at Loncon, anyway!
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Date: 2014-06-25 04:20 pm (UTC)And yes, hope to see you at Loncon!
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Date: 2014-06-25 04:23 pm (UTC)Our Ireland plans aren't finalized yet, but we'll be doing touristy things; once Chad & I have things sorted out, want me to touch base with you, or do you prefer to explore on your own/with people you know better?
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Date: 2014-06-25 04:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-06-25 04:31 pm (UTC)Unfortunately we're planning to come BACK to London sometime on Friday, so I suspect there will be no effective overlap. Loncon, then!
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Date: 2014-06-25 04:34 pm (UTC)I didn't want to rush over to Dublin post con - I figured I'd be tired - so I'm taking a nice leisurely "see England on the way" trip. But yes, Loncon it is then!
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Date: 2014-06-25 04:35 pm (UTC)Yeah, we're doing England before the con, then Ireland after, then I go back and Chad goes to Sweden for work (had we realized he was going to Sweden, we would have arranged things differently, but the invite came through the week after I bought our plane tickets . . . ).
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Date: 2014-06-25 04:40 pm (UTC)I think Irene Gallo said something on Twitter about a Tor.com meetup thing at Worldcon. Or maybe it was someone else? Anyway, you, me, Liz Bourke, Irene and John Chu count as a meetup in my head even if we never actually assemble.