IM IN UR MUG . . . STEEPIN UR TEA

[snurri]

Check out merylinabarrel's Jack-O-Lantern. It passes the Turing Test. At least, A Turing Test.

Austen update: gave up on Mansfield Park, moved on to Emma. Emma herself isn't all that likeable, but she's at least amusing. Fanny was a doormat. Edmund was a pompous twit.

Also reading about elephants again--this time, Cynthia Moss's Elephant Memories--and thinking about the elephant novel. The reason I got stuck on it at first, I think, was that I got all these story ideas before I really knew anything about the animals. Now I've absorbed enough information and gotten enough distance from my original idea for the parts to start to rearrange to reflect fact, or at least possibility. Still want an arcology in there. Think I've got that figured out.

I keep forgetting to mention that one of my fave under-published authors, Eleanor Arnason, has a blog. She's also posting at a group blog started by her writer's group, the Wyrdsmiths. I particularly liked her post on her least favorite truism, "Show Don't Tell."

Moon Knight? Really? I'm so not clamoring for that one.

Finally, in case this post isn't random enough, have some classic A Tribe Called Quest. "Damn, Tip, what'd you drive so far for?

Comments

[cassiphone.livejournal.com]

I have a deep and utterly irrational love for the Greer Garson & Laurence Oliver P&P, though it is utterly wrong in many regards. The BBC series is of course the best!

Emma Thompson's S&S is pretty good, and makes the characters all far more interesting than they are in the book (even the one played by Hugh Grant!!!) The Frances O'Connor Mansfield Park takes excessive liberties (Jane would have hated it) but just about turns it into a tolerable story.

I haven't seen the film of Persuasion, but it has Caesar in it! (Ciaran Hinds from Rome) so must be good.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs!