Fanatical Pupil

If you’re “in this club” should you really be calling it making love? I kind of thought that’s what the word “sexin’” was for. Doesn’t “I want to sex you up in this club” rhyme just about as well?

[From SFSignal]

I will admit to trying to sneak glances at Witchblade comics when I was younger. I suppose I should also admit to hanging out in comic book stores. Mostly just for the X-Men, though. I was terrified of even the idea of trying to purchase a comic like Witchblade. Scared of what the guy at the counter would think. How I would sneak it into the house. What I would say if my parents did eventually find it. And that was before I even heard there was some psychosexual interactive between the Witchblade and the person using it. [I think that's right, but maybe I'm thinking of some other fictitious comic weapon]

I’m not positive that it’s as sure a sign of the apocalypse as, say, a remake of Robocop and a movie version of 21 Jumpstreet, but Witchblade is coming in 2009. And judging by the poster, I will probably revert to my 10-year-old self and not be able to fight through the shame to actually buy a ticket.

This has been languishing in my “drafts” pile for a while for no good reason, really. It was jacked from Wyrdsmiths who got it from somewhere else… i.e., a meme.

A list of the books most often listed as “unread” on librarything. These are not the original instructions but for my list, it will be: italicize books started but not finished, bold books read, and strikethrough books read for school.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (I’m counting this because it’s sitting on my shelf right now)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude (but I liked it, though)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Mark Terry talks a lot about his life as a writer. In this post he talks about other people who write as a hobby (like me), and also asks if people think that writers are all rich because it seems like everyone is a New York Times Bestselling Author, or poor, beret-wearing, coffee shop haunting, struggling artists.

I recently interviewed a couple physicians who also write novels. It was a pleasant enough interview and their recent novel sounds interesting. What threw me a tiny bit–but probably shouldn’t have–about the interview was their acknowledgment that writing novels for them was essentially a hobby with relatively small financial gain.

Well, I know for me, writing is still essentially a hobby with relatively small financial gain. I’ve made some decent money from totally selling out Give Me The Rock, but other than that, I’m only breaking even on writing ($0 in, $0 out), and running a large negative time deficit.

As for the Rich vs. Poor argument, I feel like I read enough blogs by authors to see the gray area in between. Not sure if that makes me unique, or just enlightened, or just in a small minority of people polled.

… is this. In 100 years, is anyone going to make “albums” anymore? The question does have some relevance to me.