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Brought to you by the I Hate Tom Cruise department: according to IMDB (on which I was noodling around seeing if I'd watched enough Tim Burton movies to write an encyclopedia entry about him), today is Tom Cruise's birthday. Please join me in a ritual retching.
Ah, yes, encyclopedias. My nice editor has just mailed to me to say he's editing an Encyclopedia of Fairy Tale and Folklore for one of the American academic presses, and would I like to contribute in a number of exceedingly cool categories. There is much joy in the Department of My Academic Life. Will attempt to corner not only the metafiction, film, Byatt, Tanith Lee and Terry Pratchett entries, but also Diana Wynne Jones, Shrek, Gaiman, McKillip and McKinley ones. And possibly Tim Burton, although that's going to entail some fairly fearsome research.
Am v. amused by the notion of Popastrology, discovered while randomly following blogrings. Rather than constructing the chart of your stars at the moment of your birth, it attempts to define your character by the position of the pop charts at the moment of your birth, a self-consciously ironic project which rather appeals to me. I appear to be influenced by the Fifth Dimension ("The Age of Acquarius") and the love theme to Romeo and Juliet. There's irony for you on a whole new level.
Ah, yes, encyclopedias. My nice editor has just mailed to me to say he's editing an Encyclopedia of Fairy Tale and Folklore for one of the American academic presses, and would I like to contribute in a number of exceedingly cool categories. There is much joy in the Department of My Academic Life. Will attempt to corner not only the metafiction, film, Byatt, Tanith Lee and Terry Pratchett entries, but also Diana Wynne Jones, Shrek, Gaiman, McKillip and McKinley ones. And possibly Tim Burton, although that's going to entail some fairly fearsome research.
Am v. amused by the notion of Popastrology, discovered while randomly following blogrings. Rather than constructing the chart of your stars at the moment of your birth, it attempts to define your character by the position of the pop charts at the moment of your birth, a self-consciously ironic project which rather appeals to me. I appear to be influenced by the Fifth Dimension ("The Age of Acquarius") and the love theme to Romeo and Juliet. There's irony for you on a whole new level.
