massive linkdump
Jun. 28th, 2011 12:25 pmCharity auction of several John M. Ford books, including the alternate-Borderlands novel The Last Hot Time and both of his fantastic story+poetry collections. (Noted here primarily for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rbandrews, because it includes From The End Of The Twentieth Century, which includes "To The Tsiolkovsky Station," JMF's essay on the train system in Growing Up Weightless.)
After All, We're All Somebody's Father: "Even understanding this vast conspiracy as well as I do, however, I still found myself astounded by the many types of Father's Day cards on offer."
Dear Photograph: the About reads "Take a picture of a picture of the past in the present." Neat.
Great Expectations, by Dickens Charles: of interest to anyone who's ever read the footnoted edition of any translated literature.
An interview with Norton Juster (author of The Phantom Tollbooth), and another. "One day I made up these three demons for [illustrator Jules Feiffer], one short and fat, one tall and thin, and the third who looked exactly like the other two, and of course you can’t draw it. It’s impossible. The way he got his revenge, there’s a picture of the Whether Man, which is me."
Buried in this piece on Aardman Studios (the Wallace & Gromit studio) is mention that their next movie will be The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. "Remember my motto: 'I like ham!'" "It's a very good motto, sir."
*pant* Okay, that should be enough for now.
rbandrews, because it includes From The End Of The Twentieth Century, which includes "To The Tsiolkovsky Station," JMF's essay on the train system in Growing Up Weightless.)After All, We're All Somebody's Father: "Even understanding this vast conspiracy as well as I do, however, I still found myself astounded by the many types of Father's Day cards on offer."
Dear Photograph: the About reads "Take a picture of a picture of the past in the present." Neat.
Great Expectations, by Dickens Charles: of interest to anyone who's ever read the footnoted edition of any translated literature.
An interview with Norton Juster (author of The Phantom Tollbooth), and another. "One day I made up these three demons for [illustrator Jules Feiffer], one short and fat, one tall and thin, and the third who looked exactly like the other two, and of course you can’t draw it. It’s impossible. The way he got his revenge, there’s a picture of the Whether Man, which is me."
Buried in this piece on Aardman Studios (the Wallace & Gromit studio) is mention that their next movie will be The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. "Remember my motto: 'I like ham!'" "It's a very good motto, sir."
*pant* Okay, that should be enough for now.