QueryLily "...I would never have thought of asking How you'd got that peculiar name..."

curiouser

I've finished "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", a wonderful, near unputdownable read from the pen of Mark Haddon. A very touching, very engaging, clever book, that could have just as easily been too clever for its own good. Now I'm off on another one of my two book binges. Thanks to a post by Cory Doctorow over at boingboing which planted the seed, I've started with Kim Stanley Robinson's alternate history, "The Years of Rice and Salt", which I picked up on Friday at the !thankfully still here! Other Change of Hobbit, and the late Keith Hopkins' "A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity", which I located on my Sunday excursion to Moe's.

[31 May 2004] link?

sympathy for lynndie england

Steven Shaviro has an engaging piece on what separates those who follow orders and are held accountable and those who give them and claim full responsibility.

[09 May 2004] link?

wonder

Saturday, I took the grandson over to Wondercon. I hadn't been to one since the granddaughter was seven or eight, and she's fourteen now. I do believe he had a good time. I did. I drooled for a moment over some seventies era Wonder Woman comics, priced way out of my budget, then got over it and proceeded to complete my collection of Grant Morrison's "The Filth", picked up a copy of "Jennie One", signed by writer Brian Wood, several issues of Rick Veitch's delectable "Rarebit Fiends", and the first four issues of Bongo Comics' "Heroes Anonymous", getting the first issue signed by Bill Morrison.

And the grandson? He didn't do too badly. He especially scored at the Bongo Comics booth, getting a Bill Morrison sketch of Bart Simpson on one of his acquisitions.

[03 May 2004] link?