random incoherence and infantile meanderings

This is an uncompleted post from 2008. I’m never going to finish, so I am releasing it as is. Enjoy.

First off this is not only a vampire novel, it is published under a romance imprint. So, yeah, there is some fairly graphic sex here. Thankfully, it has NOTHING on the sheer amount of kink in a current Anita Blake novel. What does make me a bit nervous is this is the first in a series, so I have a feeling that it is going to get extremely out of hand really quickly. I enjoyed this entry, but I doubt I am going to seek out the next volume.

Secondly, this is the first book that I’ve read in eBook form. A few months back Tor released a series of no cost downloads of some of their books to readers who had signed up for their newsletter, and this is the first one that I’ve completed. I’ve spent a few hours of face-to-face time lamenting how much it hurts my eyes to read any significant amount of text on a screen, so it was refreshing to me how nice this was on me in a physical way. Maybe it had more to do with the small screen size (on my AT&T Tilt) and maybe it was the LCD vs CRT, but I read the whole thing in a fairly short period of time with no mechanical difficulties.

1. Dead Robots’ Society Episode 113 – The Plot Is The Thing – My take away from this was: Revision is writing. It seemed like the pantsers and the plotters both needed to “catch-up” on the other half of the character/plot equation during the revision stage. In fact, at this point, I think it has been said often enough that I am beginning to wonder just how much of writing can be reduced to these type of truisms?
2. Sword & Laser Interview with Daniel Suarez – The S&L Podcast #027 – Saurez sounds fun. I would follow him on twitter, if he were there.
3. Agony 804: Jeremy Lassen Looks to the Future
4. Agony 805: Poetry Santa Cruz — Adrienne Rich Reads Capitola Book Cafe – Here I discover that I do not like listening to poetry. I’m not very surprised at this, but it is slightly disappointing.
5. Agony Poetry Santa Cruz — James Scully Reads at Capitola Book Cafe
6. EP233: Union Dues – The Threnody of Johnny Toruko – I liked this story. It built up very nicely and left a twist to my gut at the end.
7. ClarkesWorld Herding Vegetable Sheep by Ekaterina Sedia (audio)
8. The Road to Magical Happy Greatness Episode 2: Caution: Southern Girl Rambling
9. DarkCompass 5×05 Rattlin Netlabels
10. The Empress Sword Episode 00 – Preview – PJ! w00t!
11. Tor.com Story Podcast 005 – “The Starship Mechanic” and “Looking For Truth In the Wild Blue Yonder” by Ken Scholes and Jay Lake – Both stories are quite good, but my favorite part was when I realized they were referencing each other and other authors.
12. Out of the Coffin Episode #55 – Happy Second Podcast Anniversary!
13. The History of Rome 80- Optimus Trajan – I think I want to be Optimus Scry.
14. Unquiet Desperation From the Vault: Interview with Jonathan Coulton – The Hutch is correct. This was an excellent interview.
15. Touching the Toucher’s Touched Monolith Episode 32 – Sixth Sense from TED – I like be talked about. I’ll make you a deal. You talk about me and I’ll actually make use of iTunes long enough to leave a rating. (And then I’ll scurry back to ZiePod.) M’kay?
16. Jack Mangans Deadpan #151: Duel of the Fates Season 3 Finale
17. Dave’s Psychology 1107 (Winter 2010) – Cognition and Language 02 and Intelligence 01

33:45 | 40:33 | 29:20 | 11:13 hrs of podcasts since the last update.

1. Buzz Out Loud 984: Pre comes to Verizon
2. Der Geek�Folge 32: Deutschland Voicemails
3. GRDsWeekly 48 – Balticon 09
4. Get Published, Episode 6 – The 12-Year Overnight Success, an Interview with Philippa Ballantine
5. 1UP.com – Listen UP – 05/15/2009
6. LLAP�Episode 115: Flat Stomach; Follow this One Simple Rule!
7. Tor.com presents Bugs in the Arroyo by Gould
8. ATYCLB 09 – An interview with Steve Peifer (part 1)
9. Evoat11 39 – Land Before Fern Gully Started Dirty Dancing
10. Creative Screenwriting�Star Trek Q&A
11. Dan Carlin’s Common Sense Show 152 – Sick Politics
12. Drabblecast 115- Clown Eggs by Jay Lake Drabble- The Absurdly Connected Machine by J. Alan Pierce
13. Slice of SciFi #213: Voice Mail Show