Friends on high bookshelves

Friends on high bookshelves

In addi­tion to the recent US launch/re-release of patch­workkid’s novel, The Music of Razors, I just dis­covered a whole tri­logy of young adult novels by old Galaxy cus­tomer and fellow fairy-tale fiend, Justine Lar­balestier. Justine and I had...

While I’m at it…

I never posted this Keith Olber­man video from July 3, a scath­ing indict­ment of Bush’s reign that ends with call­ing for his resignation. I don’t think I men­tioned either that on July 4, I read the Declar­a­tion of Inde­pend­ence and was sur­prised...
Friends on high bookshelves

Young fodder

I think the most dis­turb­ing thing about Amer­ica for me is the fre­quency with which I hear young teens talk about their friends leav­ing for boot camp. For a lot of other people vis­it­ing the US and hanging around with adult friends, I don’t think...
Icons and facebook and more

Icons and facebook and more

The last few days have been some­what wear­ing on my soul. So, this after­noon I have been wast­ing time fid­dling around with Face­book (cer­tain people who shall remain name­less enticed me there and since it’s well done – the Devil is always seduct­ive – I’ve...