the new books said he wasn't such a great man after all

[freckles_and_doubt]

Oo, er. My book appears to be out this month. You know, the book the writing and editing of which I've whinged obsessively about for the last several years, and the publication of which will infallibly catapult me to the heights of academic acclaim? (not). Just for nostalgia's sake, have a bunny, because of course I owe it all to the bunny:



I have about a jazillion things to do today, including checking board schedules, retch hurl, so the description of my weekend in Elgin attending weddings will have to wait. In the meantime, have some random linkery to go with the bunny, namely Animal Review's take on snails. I'm particularly tickled by the characterisation of Evolution - "a manic-depressive genius and famously difficult to work with on anything". Word. Explains, among other things, the platypus, also likely to have been dreamed up while Evolution was off its meds.

Comments

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Does Ursula Vernon know it's finally out? She would probably be thrilled.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I did ask the nice editor lady to send her a copy when it came out, mostly because I think it would amuse Ursula to see her work adorning Serious Academic Tomes. I doubt she'd be particularly thrilled, she does a lot of cover art work and must be fairly used to seeing it around.

I still want to put together all this eroticism/representation stuff I lecture into a book called "Unreal Sex", and use the Ursula S&M unicorn as cover art. It would be perfect. Also perfectly dodgy :>.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

My impression of successful artists is that they must go "oh, more affirmation, yawn" but Ms Vernon appears to be freshly bowled over with astonishment every time someone does something nice with her art, or says something nice about it. Of course, the lolwut pear does seem to get around and no longer astonishes her.