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After that season finale, I can only turn the piano over to the great Tom Lehrer to disinfect my brain:
( This is the way the filk ends.... )
( This is the way the filk ends.... )
Dec. 19th, 2011
Mission: BEING Accomplished!
Dec. 19th, 2011 08:22 pmWith a full twelve days of reading left in 2011, I've already hit my long-coveted goal of tackling a book a week for an entire calendar year. I wound up gorking previous references in entries here to #45, #39 and such, because I deleted a beta-read that I never quite finished for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
firynze and which, it turns out, she isn't publishing anyway; but even accounting for that subtraction, Terry Pratchett's Snuff will be #52 on your Read Parade.
I'm proud to have contributed editing to at least four of those 52, and to have gotten to know several of the other authors in various incarnations of real life. And today, in a layover in (where else?) a Rochester-area library, I added a bunch of books to my to-do list for 2012!
The first:
I've never tried any published Whofic before. Obviously, the nihil obstat from Neil Gaiman is a big plus, but. Are these worth the bother? Faithful to canon? (It's Eleven-era, so there'll be Amy about, but Rory's not mentioned on the jacket, so one wonders.)
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Next, mine eyes did see the glory of the non-fiction sec. Starting with this:
On the whole, I find MM a bit to the left of Kim Jong Il, and his rantings about the Evil Obama Administration to be over the top compared to the competition, but I've read and liked some of his prose (Stupid White Men, for one), and the couple of chapters I read from this while waiting in the reading room? Nicely done, poignant, and telling of some details I'd never heard before (like who Reagan was originally to have tapped for his 1980 VP, which would likely have spared us twelve nonconsecutive years of being beaten by the Bush(es)).
Then, a trip inside the workings of the World Wide Leader (and by that I do NOT mean Kim Jong Il):
I enjoyed Live from New York from the same authors, which chronicled the history of NBC Saturday Night (Live) from its late 1970s beginnings, and this tome seems to tread in similar areas from a similar era. It's bizarre to begin the book and realize that the now monolithical network of ESPN began, mainly, as a way for Hartford Whalers broadcasters to keep busy after getting sacked from their hockey duties. I watch very little of their content, but am painfully aware of how it influences the visibility and relevance of all the major sports based on whether their now-owning Mouse has tail in the game or not.
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So it already looks like a good start to 2012. I may not make it to 100, or even 60, as some of you have, but with stuff like this, I'll at least have a fighting chance. And now to finish the 52nd of '11, as I get back to Sam, Sam, Sybil, Spam, Spam, Spam, tomato and Spam.
firynze and which, it turns out, she isn't publishing anyway; but even accounting for that subtraction, Terry Pratchett's Snuff will be #52 on your Read Parade.I'm proud to have contributed editing to at least four of those 52, and to have gotten to know several of the other authors in various incarnations of real life. And today, in a layover in (where else?) a Rochester-area library, I added a bunch of books to my to-do list for 2012!
The first:
I've never tried any published Whofic before. Obviously, the nihil obstat from Neil Gaiman is a big plus, but. Are these worth the bother? Faithful to canon? (It's Eleven-era, so there'll be Amy about, but Rory's not mentioned on the jacket, so one wonders.)
----
Next, mine eyes did see the glory of the non-fiction sec. Starting with this:
On the whole, I find MM a bit to the left of Kim Jong Il, and his rantings about the Evil Obama Administration to be over the top compared to the competition, but I've read and liked some of his prose (Stupid White Men, for one), and the couple of chapters I read from this while waiting in the reading room? Nicely done, poignant, and telling of some details I'd never heard before (like who Reagan was originally to have tapped for his 1980 VP, which would likely have spared us twelve nonconsecutive years of being beaten by the Bush(es)).
Then, a trip inside the workings of the World Wide Leader (and by that I do NOT mean Kim Jong Il):
I enjoyed Live from New York from the same authors, which chronicled the history of NBC Saturday Night (Live) from its late 1970s beginnings, and this tome seems to tread in similar areas from a similar era. It's bizarre to begin the book and realize that the now monolithical network of ESPN began, mainly, as a way for Hartford Whalers broadcasters to keep busy after getting sacked from their hockey duties. I watch very little of their content, but am painfully aware of how it influences the visibility and relevance of all the major sports based on whether their now-owning Mouse has tail in the game or not.
----
So it already looks like a good start to 2012. I may not make it to 100, or even 60, as some of you have, but with stuff like this, I'll at least have a fighting chance. And now to finish the 52nd of '11, as I get back to Sam, Sam, Sybil, Spam, Spam, Spam, tomato and Spam.