June 16, 2009
Time to make the pancakes
Translated, that means I've had a full day writing entries for "Writers Gone Wild," and I'm off to make dinner (on my days off, I cook for the family). Three essays about Daniel DeFoe going to the pillory, Edith Wharton meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dashiell Hammett going to prison for refusing to testify during the Red Scare. About a thousand words, which is very, very good.
I did have a disappointing walk, though. Every afternoon, I go out and stretch my legs, and while I take my notebook along for sudden inspirations, I didn't take my camera. "Why bother?" I think to myself. "I've done this walk a number of times and never see anything interesting."
It's a bad habit to get into, if you're like me and want to record interesting things. Essentially, I didn't listen to myself, and I KNOW that I should.
This time, walking in front of the Hershey factory, on the long, freshly-mowed sward of grass, I saw Canadian geese.
No big deal, that. We have a pond about a half-mile away, in front of the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center, and they congregate there all the time. So why wouldn't they come here?
Except this time, a good dozen of them were sitting on the ground. Not walk around, but hunkered down, in formation. A flying V of Canadian geese.
They looked like they were swimming on the grass.
And me, without my camera.
I'm an idiot.
A few tabs, now:
Megan Fox, Hotter: CGI, is there anything it can't do?
Die, Star Trek fans, Die! And when you do, Get buried in this Star Trek coffin.
Back to the '80s: I was a big fan of Frank Miller/Bill Sienkiewicz's "Electra" books back in the day, so this riff on the "Flashdance" album cover made me grin.
More Austen Zombies: I liked "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" better than I would thought. It cut Jane Austen's prose, making it much more readable, and I admired the way the author tried to weave the two stories together (although the artwork sucked). Now, in the tradition of "Da Vinci Code," they're publishing the Deluxe Heirloom Edition of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, with redone artwork. Really, how difficult could it be to take public domain art and refashion it?
Dustbury lays it out: Women and the multiplier effect.
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