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  • Mar. 5th, 2008 at 1:18 PM
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Yesterday I did 1,065 words on "Pickman's Other Model." Another good writing day. I'm really starting to fall in love with this story. I'm guessing I'll likely be able to finish it, at this rate, by Sunday or Monday. By the way, if you are unfamiliar with Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model," you may now read the entire story online (though I still recommend reading it from an actual book).

People who pre-ordered the new Subterranean Press edition of Tales of Pain and Wonder should be receiving their copies any time now. And if you haven't ordered, I think there might be a hundred or so copies left at the publisher.

This is, I think, actually going to be a genuinely shortish entry. Huzzah.

After the writing yesterday, we had a walk in Freedom Park. It was a little chilly for my liking, but the sky was filled with wonderful clouds. After dinner, we watched the first three episodes of Season Four of Angel, and I think the series is really starting to hit its stride right about here. And it was great getting Alexa Davalos as the "electrifying" Gwen in "Ground State," as I'd enjoyed her as Kyra ("Jack") in The Chronicles of Riddick. And getting to see a green Fred wasn't so shabby, either (in "The House Always Wins"), at least not if you are given to the sorts of...oh, never mind. I read "Dinosaur teeth from the Cenomanian of Charentes, Western France: evidence for a mixed Laurasian-Gondwanan assemblage" in the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. 27, No. 4). Later still, I had Second Life rp as Nareth the cyborg Nephilim in Toxian City. First, there was a bit of fetish magick and phylactery, raising a protective sentry for the Omega Institute, and then Nareth had some issues with absolute zero and temporal flux, and, finally, she was granted the ability to cry (whether she wanted it or not). There's a screencap behind the cut. That was yesterday.







And just in case you have not yet heard about the discovery, from a Welsh lobster pot, of the first-known "hexapus", well, now you have. As for me, I've no time for any 'pus at the moment but Herr Platypus, who needs a breath mint, I think.
  • Location:Rupes Tenuis
  • Mood: not so bad
  • Music:Seabound, "Torn"

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[info]blu_muse wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 06:59 pm (UTC)
Cer stopped by in Tox yesterday for a bit, saw Nareth through the library windows but thought twice and didn't go in. She still has an adversion to the Omegas.
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[info]greygirlbeast wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 07:06 pm (UTC)

She still has an adversion to the Omegas.

We're really not the bookish snobs everyone makes us out to be. I'm beginning to suspect we're something rather somewhat worse... ;-)
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[info]omegamorningsta wrote:
Mar. 6th, 2008 05:38 am (UTC)
Oh no, just booksnobs. promise. Nothing to see, move along.

(*insert manical laughter here*)

And Cer for what it's worth, you are welcome. :)
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[info]scarletboi wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 07:36 pm (UTC)
Zaaz now has her own Flickr account, and I've posted the first pictures.

I found eyes that work for the silver luminous eyes of Dead Girl-style vampires, and fangs, so Zaaz has completed her transformation into a creature of the night.

A couple of pictures here.
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[info]greygirlbeast wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 08:03 pm (UTC)

I found eyes that work for the silver luminous eyes of Dead Girl-style vampires, and fangs, so Zaaz has completed her transformation into a creature of the night.

Superb!
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[info]humglum wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 08:09 pm (UTC)


Ooh! Nice :)

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[info]serizawa3000 wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 08:11 pm (UTC)
It really did come from beneath the sea, after all
So I guess what started out as a budget constraint for Ray Harryhausen (did't have enough money to build all eight arms for the giant octopus in It Came from Beneath the Sea) has become an actual fact... :)
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[info]chris_walsh wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 08:24 pm (UTC)
Re: It really did come from beneath the sea, after all
Same reason Ursula in Little Mermaid has six tentacles! (Less animating involved...)
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[info]greygirlbeast wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 09:04 pm (UTC)
Re: It really did come from beneath the sea, after all

So I guess what started out as a budget constraint for Ray Harryhausen (did't have enough money to build all eight arms for the giant octopus in It Came from Beneath the Sea) has become an actual fact... :)

I think Harryhausen's giant octopus only had five tentacles, but I might be mistaken.
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[info]derekcfpegritz wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 09:47 pm (UTC)
Oddly enough, Ms. K, I recommend Wikisource's complete H. P. Lovecraft archive as opposed to Dagonbytes, as it seems that many of the stories transcribed in the Dagonbytes archive have been taken from the inferior Del Rey publications. I spent a good portion of last year proofreading the Wikisource transcriptions to be certain that they represent the revised Joshi texts currently found in the standard Penguin Classics editions.
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[info]chris_walsh wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2008 10:03 pm (UTC)
Off-Topic: the "I Am Legend" ending that wasn't used
At least for the moment, someone has up the original ending of I Am Legend that was replaced.
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[info]scarletboi wrote:
Mar. 6th, 2008 03:43 pm (UTC)
Re: Off-Topic: the "I Am Legend" ending that wasn't used
Still not quite right, but MUCH better than what they went with.
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[info]fanny_fanu wrote:
Mar. 6th, 2008 09:51 am (UTC)
Henry the Hexapus
My favourite part of the article is the quote "He's a lovely little thing". Hug a hexapus :)
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[info]kennydoogs wrote:
Mar. 6th, 2008 04:34 pm (UTC)
Thank you for posting "Pickman's Model." I've been a fairly avid reader of Lovecraft's for a number of years, but I must confess this story has somehow alluded me. Your novel, "Low Red Moon" is among my favorite contemporary works. Since the first time I read it, I've considered it a "Lovecraftian" tale. I was just wondering if this particular story was the main source of influence for that novel??
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[info]greygirlbeast wrote:
Mar. 6th, 2008 05:04 pm (UTC)

I was just wondering if this particular story was the main source of influence for that novel??

Indeed, "Pickman's Model" was probably the single greatest influence on Low Red Moon.
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