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Haven't posted much aside from typical comic stuff and dreams. The New Year tends to be the start of a slightly more depressive and isolated mood, so once again, if I'm less talkative than usual, that's probably why. It's not you, it's probably just SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder or whatever).

Book Foo! Finished: Cell, by Stephen King
Started: Big Planet, by Jack Vance

Enjoyed Cell. Like a lot of Stephen King novels, it fell down a bit towards the end, but it was a fun ride. I actually think it's one of my favorites of his. And it was inevitable for me to read it. I can resist a new Stephen King novel. I can resist a 'zombie apocalypse' novel. But put the two together, and I have to read it.

A little more detailed and spoilery thoughts behind the cut (though not terribly spoilery still), along with a selected quote.
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Anyway, moving on, the book also inspired me to start on my own Great Canadian Zombie Apocalypse Novel! I was walking the other day and was idly thinking about different variations on the zombie apocalypse, how King had a neat one in terms of cause, and so my mind wandered towards what I'd do, and I came up with an idea I liked. Like King, it's not truly 'zombies' and affects a large number of people all over the world at once, but the cause, effects, and who gets chosen vary. That's about all I'll say on it.

Speaking of writing though, I'm back on the horse. After PerExWriMo I decided to take December off and start wrting again in January. Of course, since I hate New Years Resolutions, I couldn't actually start on the first of January. I decided to wait a week. Well, a little more, actually.

Anyway, here's the plan: ( Read more... )Walking helps the plotbunnies.

Speaking of that walk, won't go into why, but I got to thinking about Copyright and the Public Domain again. I've mentioned before that eventually, if I became a famous author (yes, I realize that's nearly as unlikely as my 'if I ever got superpowers' imaginings, but bear with me), I'd want to donate a good deal of my work into the public domain so anybody could use it any way they wanted.

Yesterday, though, I thought about (probably not for the first time, but I'm not sure) specifically setting out as a project to create something for the public domain. Maybe alone, maybe collaboratively. Like, for example, ( Read more... )

I think I have some memes to do, too. Alphabet Meme, stolen from soleta_nf...
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Do I have any TV foo to do? I don't think so. Nothing's really been new. Torchwood finale sucked, btw, I'm done with the show. New Grey's Anatomy tonight though.

This week I got 4 books:

Birds of Prey #99 (despite myself I find myself liking the 'new Batgirl')
Cable & Deadpool #33 (usual level of quality for the title)
Runaways #21 (my Pick of the Week, can't wait to see how it goes from the closing)
X-Factor #12 (less enthused with this issue than the last, but there's still a pretty cool moment)

Full reviews up as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.

Also picked up a copy of Ilium, by Dan Simmons, at the used book store, because, well, used bookstores are like catnip to me... they do nothing for me, but stone my cat. No, wait. Uhm, they're like potato chips, I can't stop at just one! Well, that's almost true, but not what I'm going for. They're like popcorn, delicious, and better salted.

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I'm sorry, my similies seem to be on the fritz today, check back later.
The point is that I saw it in a used bookstore, so I got it.

For lunch I had the last of the turkey salad from Thanksgiving, in sandwich form.

And of course did the long walk thing today (though didn't walk all the way home from work). Most of the time during the walk my mind was composing replies to this thread on Newsarama which started with a simple question but then turned into a debate about copyright and the necessity of the public domain. I couldn't resist, because that topic is actually one of very few issues that I care passionately about, think there is 100% a right side and a wrong side, and yet I always feel that for some inexplicable reason I'm in the minority (well, considering people who are opposed and the much larger number of people who simply don't care or think about it at all as the same 'side', since they're usually a large number of "don't cares" leads to the other side winning more easily. The other issue like that that comes to mind is, of course, AI rights (I'm pro, as all of you should be. It doesn't matter if there's no AIs yet). Anyway, I don't generally get into online arguments (even civil ones like this one has been so far)... I dunno, I always have this feeling that I'm really bad at arguing. Here though I think I've done a fairly good job, at least in my own opinion.

Oh, and I seem to have developed a spontaneous new friend, so hello!