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  • I cannot look away

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    Like too much candy, too many mundane-beautiful images make me sick. I began with sympathy. I could see why the airbrushing occurred, why the smoothing of skin was desirable, why pleats were ironed out and bruising and other marks swept away. By the end, I craved the bags under the eyes and the stray hairs…

  • What really matters

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    boingboing rounds up noodly links for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Also, benpayne gives us a fairly reasonable to-do list. benpeek says something about audience. canoblivious is pleased we’re talking scene. azhure has a poll. And probably more besides. What an engaging week! Also: it is difficult to type around the edges of a cat. In…

  • This’ll get letters

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    Ouch! girliejones fearlessly asks: Do editors/publishers know what is *good*? Who wants to play? :)

  • Mopping up

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    Whew! I’m surprised & delighted by the amount of debate that spun out of the mention of punkrocker1991‘s editorial. Very cool! Russ, I suspect you really could do with some functioning forums over at Ticonderoga Online. I like that people are willing to engage on this, & that the intelligent to-ing & fro-ing rarely degenerates…

  • Still happily self-indulging

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    August 24, 2005 “We are all failures–at least, the best of us are.” — Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), British writer http://www.quoteworld.org/

  • Plethoria Mediocrita?

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    Over at Ticonderoga Online, punkrocker1991 muses in his editorial about the state of modern SF writing in Oz. “Yes, we’re publishing more, but is our writing getting better? I’m not convinced.” Healthier, he says, but not stronger. (Also, he mentions my name. I wish he wouldn’t do that, it makes it harder to quote him…

  • Yikes, Jung.

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    From quotez: “The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.” -Carl Jung Not sure I’d stretch it to ‘all’ mental illness (though, y’know, out of me & Jung, pick the famous psychologist type. So … ), but I’d pay this one. Avoidance is a mental ouroboros. A green-eyed monster that…

  • Writers talk shop

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    docbrite makes some nice comments about writing rules here and here. I particularly like: “In light of all the recent discussion about “self-indulgence” in fiction writing, I have decided I believe self-indulgent writing is generally of a higher quality, more enjoyable to read, and likelier to touch a chord in readers’ hearts than non-self-indulgent writing.…

  • Crucial poll at metaquotes

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    You should go there & vote because otherwise Pirates will win. Ridiculous! http://www.livejournal.com/community/metaquotes/3762364.html

  • I’m serious, I really want this on a shirt

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    I am pleased to announce that I have discovered the one true way, which I think should be taught in all schools. I am Pastafarian. Of course. Not only because I wish to believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but because …. actually *only* because of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/19/pastafarianism_flyin.html Edit: and also because…