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Finally sort of not ill. Finally sort of moving forward.
Today is "Family Day", which makes it the fourth uninterrupted day of Cal at home. Thankfully, Steve's here, allowing me to do things like transfer all my notes thus far on Tree of Bones into an .odt Open Office file, do additional research, etc. My favourite nugget today has to be this curt run-down on a particular tzitzimime star-demon: "Tlaltecuhtli, earth goddess and first sacrificial victim. She is a monstrous creature." Also, why does it totally not surprise me that there's an "Aztec metal" band called Mictlantecuhtli? Check them out here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8TMkZH8SAY).
Otherwise, I've spent a lot of time fending off my insomnia by watching episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, almost all of which contain moments where you just want to grab Darren McGavin by his shoulders and shake him, yelling: Carl, shut the fuck up! Carl, just LIE, Goddamnit! Don't be so ridiculously, continually 'surprised' that the authorities don't believe you about the hooker being a vampire, or the doppleganger setting people on fire, or that damn haunted computer! We could shave a good twenty minutes off of every episode if you'd just assume no one will ever listen to you, and act accordingly!
That said, I still end up enjoying the show, more often than not. I'm particularly fond of the guy who plays Kolchak's editor Vincenzo, Simon Oakwood, who looks startlingly like Gary Farmer. Is it possible they cast a Native person to play an Italian? In a show which once cast Richard freakin' Kiel as the rampaging ghost of a Medicine Man, why not? Oh, and there's an episode where a young hotel executive from Mexico turns out to be an avatar of Xipe Totec, which I'd totally forgotten. So awesome.;)
Other good news: Creatures!, the anthology edited by PG Tremblay and John Langan, is on its way--they're reprinting my story "Blood Makes Noise", of which I'm quite fond. Read the TOC and admire the cover art here (http://pgtremblay.livejournal.com/398266.html). And Francesca Forrest sold an absolutely vicious fairytale, "The Yew's Embrace", to Strange Horizons. It's live right now, and incredible (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2011/20110221/yew-f.shtml).
All right, back to the blood-encrusted grindstone...
Today is "Family Day", which makes it the fourth uninterrupted day of Cal at home. Thankfully, Steve's here, allowing me to do things like transfer all my notes thus far on Tree of Bones into an .odt Open Office file, do additional research, etc. My favourite nugget today has to be this curt run-down on a particular tzitzimime star-demon: "Tlaltecuhtli, earth goddess and first sacrificial victim. She is a monstrous creature." Also, why does it totally not surprise me that there's an "Aztec metal" band called Mictlantecuhtli? Check them out here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8TMkZH8SAY).
Otherwise, I've spent a lot of time fending off my insomnia by watching episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, almost all of which contain moments where you just want to grab Darren McGavin by his shoulders and shake him, yelling: Carl, shut the fuck up! Carl, just LIE, Goddamnit! Don't be so ridiculously, continually 'surprised' that the authorities don't believe you about the hooker being a vampire, or the doppleganger setting people on fire, or that damn haunted computer! We could shave a good twenty minutes off of every episode if you'd just assume no one will ever listen to you, and act accordingly!
That said, I still end up enjoying the show, more often than not. I'm particularly fond of the guy who plays Kolchak's editor Vincenzo, Simon Oakwood, who looks startlingly like Gary Farmer. Is it possible they cast a Native person to play an Italian? In a show which once cast Richard freakin' Kiel as the rampaging ghost of a Medicine Man, why not? Oh, and there's an episode where a young hotel executive from Mexico turns out to be an avatar of Xipe Totec, which I'd totally forgotten. So awesome.;)
Other good news: Creatures!, the anthology edited by PG Tremblay and John Langan, is on its way--they're reprinting my story "Blood Makes Noise", of which I'm quite fond. Read the TOC and admire the cover art here (http://pgtremblay.livejournal.com/398266.html). And Francesca Forrest sold an absolutely vicious fairytale, "The Yew's Embrace", to Strange Horizons. It's live right now, and incredible (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2011/20110221/yew-f.shtml).
All right, back to the blood-encrusted grindstone...
