I'm So In Love With You, I'll Be Forever Blue

[snurri]

I got my first LJ comment spam last night! It turns out, this guy? His wife left him for another guy? And there's video now on the Internet of her doing this stuff with the other guy? That she would never do with the first guy? So this guy wanted me to see the video of his wife and this other guy? . . . Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either. BUT, I figure this is some sort of rite of passage, and I fully expect to have chanting and nude bonfire leaping later.

I am experiencing the fatigue and heartburn that usually presage a cold. (Does anyone else get heartburn pre-cold? I hardly ever get it, so if it happens two nights in a row I can be pretty sure I'm getting sick. I've never heard of this as a cold symptom, but there it is.) I suspect that by tonight, or possibly tomorrow morning, I'll be miserably stuffed up. So I have that to look forward to, which is nice. (Maybe I should pass on the nude bonfire activities.)

It occurs to me that the whole Astronaut weirdness really just signals a new acceptance of the Astronaut people into our culture. Now they really are just like us! Just because they come from space doesn't mean they don't occasionally decide to murder each other. Man, I can't wait until the first Senator plots someone's murder. What? Why are you laughing?

I wonder if Pynchon already knew that the Vikings used crystals to navigate when he wrote Against the Day? (Which is AWESOME, BTW. It has airships and anarchists and journeys through the center of the earth and that's just in the first hundred pages. I'm still reading, though, so please don't spoil me for anything!) (I must say that the linked article is some pretty bad journalism: "Vikings were a seafaring race from Scandinavia who used their longboats to explore and conquer parts of Europe, Greenland, Iceland and Russia." WTF? The Vikings were a separate race? Did they came from space as well?)

Look! Smart people talking!

The fashion must-have for WisCon 50. (Via Warren Ellis.)

Excuse me a second. (What? Really? . . . huh. I, uh--are you sure?!? Well, I just thought . . . OK, fine.) Sorry, folks. Turns out Astronauts don't actually come from space. Turns out they are HUMAN BEINGS. (Vikings too?) Vikings, too.

Now I've got a wiggins.

Comments

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Is Gravity's Rainbow the one you keep starting, putting down at page 32, and never picking back up?

[susansugarspun.livejournal.com]

That's the one. The thirty-odd pages that I read (and have read five times), I absolutely love. I adore it. There is no reason at all that I haven't gotten any further.

Maybe this should be my new project.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Would it help if we offer to mock you if don't put in 10 pages a day?

... she says, having been stuck at pg. 84 of The Female Man for the past year.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

The Female Man isn't even long. You have no excuse.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Also, my college roommate? Was a comparative lit major, and she hated hated HATED having to read Gravity's Rainbow. Her bitching about it made for pretty funny stuff... but it pretty cemented a permanent excuse for not reading it into my brain.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

For me the thing about Pynchon is you can't read him fast, as I imagine she probably had to for a class. I do about a chapter a day, two if I'm pushing it. And it's not because I don't want to read more, but because there's a lot to absorb. The prose isn't that dense, it's just the ideas.