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Friday, 27 October 2006 12:37 pmMichael Marshall Smith! Who knew? The man is a storyteller - pace, character, amazing world-building. He is also:
1. Batshit insane.
2. Lateral, off-the-wall, surreal, and blackly, ironically funny.
3. An acute and satirical social commentator in a post-cyberpunk mode, like a less pretentious Neal Stephenson with an edge of slightly more comprehensible and good-natured Murakami.
4. A fellow cat-fancier whose respect for the species I have to salute.
5. Batshit insane.
I think I may be in love.
In other news, the PhD comic currently has an extended gag depicting academic supervisors as Doctor Frankenstein, which, given the combination of my employment woes and a recent round of Mary Shelley lectures, is making me giggle helplessly and suspect that Jorge Tam has been subjecting my so-called life to covert surveillance, in which case I can only say that I'm glad someone's getting some use out of it.
Also, my sentences are too long, but I blame the end of term.
1. Batshit insane.
2. Lateral, off-the-wall, surreal, and blackly, ironically funny.
3. An acute and satirical social commentator in a post-cyberpunk mode, like a less pretentious Neal Stephenson with an edge of slightly more comprehensible and good-natured Murakami.
4. A fellow cat-fancier whose respect for the species I have to salute.
5. Batshit insane.
I think I may be in love.
In other news, the PhD comic currently has an extended gag depicting academic supervisors as Doctor Frankenstein, which, given the combination of my employment woes and a recent round of Mary Shelley lectures, is making me giggle helplessly and suspect that Jorge Tam has been subjecting my so-called life to covert surveillance, in which case I can only say that I'm glad someone's getting some use out of it.
Also, my sentences are too long, but I blame the end of term.
