So, while I was in Ontario last month (you remember the 10-day blog blackout?) I did get a chance to take a run into Toronto and visit a couple of my favourite specialty bookstores. The trip started with a visit to Canada’s leading mystery bookstore, The Sleuth of Baker Street, where I primarily was looking for new authors. I then… Read more →
Category: Books
I like books, I like alcohol
It’s not often that I see a description of a non-fiction book by someone I am not familiar with and know that I must buy it without any other supporting information, reviews, references, whatever. This is one of those, though: Alcoholica Esoterica : A Collection of Useful and Useless Information As It Relates to the History and Consumption of All… Read more →
Wednesday Linkfest
B3n (yes, that is a three), who is another online acquaintance from the Delphi days, is just as much of a language pedant as I am, and shows it while talking about the list of recent additions to the OED. I completely agree that they’re taking the whole ‘descriptive’ thing a bit far… While it does slightly warm my heart-cockles… Read more →
Authors With Feeds
So, I read an absolute ton of RSS feeds, in a number of different areas that interest me. One of the kinds of feeds I track are the ones from authors whose work I enjoy. I’ve got a pretty big list of them in my aggregator these days, and I’m always looking for more. (Really–feel free to email me lists,… Read more →
A Friday Miscellany
Best paragraph on technology I’ve read today: I don’t think we’ll ever have the feeling of the one place you have to be ever again… Increasingly, the name of the game will be software agents that bring the “places” to you and streamline their interfaces together for you, until it feels once again that there is just one place you… Read more →
Lovecraft
I had a pleasant surprise on the weekend, when I popped into one of the local independent bookstores to find all three volumes of Arkham House‘s collected Lovecraft, as well as the volume of “stuff Lovecraft ‘doctored’” sitting on the shelf. I don’t think I’ve ever seen these books in stock at a general bookstore–in fact, I think the only… Read more →
It is mine. Oh yes, it is.
Finally, the Complete Calvin and Hobbes is here. Quite pricey, but you can see where the money has gone into production value in the finished books. One thousand, four hundred, and fifty-six pages of pure C&H goodness, in three lovely volumes. (I wonder if I could read through this in one sitting if my family were out of town or… Read more →
Upbeat and assorted.
Yes, that’s correct. Apparently there is a BaldGuyz corporation making products just for… well, “bald guys”. As time goes by I am falling more and more into their target audience. I think these boxes look pretty funny though. * * * I wouldn’t actually buy BaldGuyz products, but as an engineer I think I am duty-bound to actually buy these… Read more →
War is Bad, Peace is Good…
…and Harlan Ellison is, well, Harlan. Anyone who knows anything about science fiction knows about Harlan, up to and including the fact that he once kind of took out a hit on an editor of his (well, actually a comptroller) over cigarette ads (it’s a funny story when he tells it) Apparently the Penny Arcade guys, didn’t know about Harlan. Read more →
Margaritas ante porcos
I am happy to report I have just pre-ordered my copy of the Subterranean Press limited edition of Tim Powers‘ new book. (Not the lettered one–I’m a rabid Powers fanboy, but not to the tune of $600US. Maybe if they double my salary.) Ordering of the book by the general public (I am so a laminate, sweetie) will open soon,… Read more →
Attention Small Press Publishers
I would gladly pay tall dollars for a really nice hard cover edition of Jeffrey Ford‘s The Physiognomy. Indeed, I would pay even taller dollars for a nice matched edition of it and the two subsequent books (Memoranda, The Beyond). Why won’t someone take my money? (I haven’t read the new one yet, but based on his past performance and… Read more →
My precious….
We must have it. Yes, we must. I wrote about this a few months ago, but now there are pictures… I’ve already got this on order at my exemplary local comic shop, but that picture links to Amazon.ca which is listing pre-orders at 30% off. (Of course that’s still an astonishing $140CAN for the collection.) Read more →
A few follow-ups
So, still sick, but capable of posting some follow-up links on some things I’ve talked about before. One of the topics I’ve discussed a lot is the whole “forcing creationism into schools” thing, one classic example of which was the whole evolution sticker thing. Well, you may recall that back in January the courts (correctly!) ordered the stickers removed. Apparently… Read more →
The always entertaining Alan Moore
Let’s ease back into this blogging thing with a little of the old linkblogging. You will recall my nerd-like nigh worship of Alan Moore. Well, the big story in comic book world yesterday was that Moore has finally had enough of one of his publishers, and is pulling all future projects from them–primarily over some problems with the movie adapation… Read more →
Biblioholism
I know it’s supposed to be a joke, but I can actually say yes to having done all of these: Awakened, the morning after a book-buying spree, unable to remember how many books you bought or how much you spent? Been reprimanded or fired for reading on the job? Become suddenly deeply interested in an obscure topic and immediately bought… Read more →
