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So the local library came through with a copy of Connie Willis' mammoth short story collection Winds of Marble Arch. I'd been in the queue since the end of last year. I was beginning to think they'd forgotten about me. It'll be interesting to see which stories I've already read from other collections. In some ways, I think Connie does much better with the shorter form. Not that I begrudge her Passage or Bellwether -- you'll have to pry those out of my cold dead heads. If then.

I did get around to reading Inside Job in the Year's Best Fantasy collection. I liked it a lot more than "D.A.", but maybe it's just the image of a certain Baltimore curmudgeon haranguing New Agers. There's a certain symmetry... or something.

So both my teams won this week. Bama blew out the Vols and the Skins held on for dear life against the Cardinals. We always used to have close games with them when they were still in the division. Next week is the juggernaut New England. Do not want!

I swung by the local library to return Connie Willis' "D.A" (short, unsubstantial, and disappointing) and discovered they've started a regular Graphic Novels section. They've had a comics/manga section in the Young Adult section with your Naruto and Spiderman and Xmen. The new section is small enough it's still shelved with the new books, but I brought home Will Eisner's "Best of Spirit" collection and I saw Fables and Meltzer JLA and the Complete Peanuts. I'm not sure what prompted this change, but we must encourage it, especially I see more DC represented.

Dinner with

confettiofstars chatting about everything and anything as usual. I now am the proud owner of a Ra-Heru-akhety statue. He's guarding my desktop. Maybe he can give me guidance over the monitor.

Yes, I'm having desktop issues again, the same ones I had before. For some reason, the monitor cable keeps coming loose. I can be working on perfectly and it'll be sitting for awhile and suddenly poof, no monitor. I've restarted it twice now. I'm going to hunt the Dell site and see if they sell a monitor cable. Or would they be a simple Best Buy visit? (It's a flat screen if that helps/hurts.) I really don't want to replace the monitor again.

Book #1: Bellwether by Connie Willis

I started my reading project with an old friend. This is one of those books that I frequently reread. I was little surprised to realize today that Bellwether is ten years old. Some of the trends and fads described do date it somewhat, but the big ones mentioned are the historical ones, like hair bobbing and the Hula Hoop. Almost everyone now has cell phones now. They were still enough of a novelty at the time of "Bellwether". Strangely very little else has changed. Corporate America is still changing policies and paperwork every other year in some attempt to stay ahead. Science may not have the Niebnitz award, but people are still discovering things in the damndest of ways. Barbie is still as popular as ever. If anything, frappucinos and lattes have taken up hold in the mainstream, rather than disappearing. The non-smoking bans have become more pronounced in recent years with whole cities banning them in public places. And sheep... are just sheep. What more can you say?

I do find myself playing Sandra Foster occasionally at Media West, studying trends in fandom and how they appear. Which fandoms will be big this year? Can I spot the signs before they appear? Or are they like the source of the Nile hidden in the recesses of the Net? Chaos only seems to reign on Friday morning of registration. And the big furry animals around are the con chair's Samoyeds.

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