Friends-Only Post No. 15: Liking This No Lack of Lake
Added 2016-09-06 16:10:56 +0000 UTC
INTRODUCTIONALIZING MAUNDERINGS
Greetings, friends -- and apologies for the lateness of this missive. It happens that I am on vacation, spending most of my days near a lake with an actually good book to hand (Helen DeWitt, what up?), or cornfused and cornfounded by a corn maze (see images, anent), and legitimately forgetting what day it may / may not be.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK ETC.
But! Because J. rules and because we are The Only Podcast Who Cares, we managed to surge forth with a pair of episodes for your ecstasy, separated by a bare stretch of days, not the length-lingering week-spans we typically impose. And so it came to be that the Labor Day weekend (at least here in the States) featured:
* A Friends-Only Excursion Into the Graphic World of ... HEAVY METAL
* A Romp-Quest Through the Ultimate Tedium of ... DragonLance
EXTRAS TIME!
It was interesting to pile up so much fantasy reading / gazing / flinching in such a short time. Mostly because I enjoy revisiting the criticisms levied by my man Michael Moorcock, which You Can Read About at links:
* Epic Pooh: Tolkien in context of other mostly better, children's literature
* Brief Moorcock Profile 1: "the anti-Tolkien" (a label that doesn't make sense to me, though it seems popular)
* Brief Moorcock Profile 2: wherein is sketched out the incredible backwards-looking nature of most science fiction (and, for that matter, rock and roll, the most conservative artistic form in existence)
* How to Write a Novel in Three Days: in which a guy who wrote a handful of dozens of novels shows how it's done (and incidentally craps all over a bunch of writers who take 10x as long to write -3x as entertainingly / well)
UNTIL NEXT TIME
I'm on vacation.
ride the centaur, put your hands on its rump
--Collision for IDEOTVPOD
