drupagliassotti @ May 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Just a quick note to say hello from Germany; we were in Berlin on Friday/Saturday, and today I’m writing from a bar in Wittgenberg, Martin Luther’s home. However, this photo is of me in Berlin, standing at Checkpoint Charlie on the East Berlin side of the checkpoint, looking toward West Germany. Oh, I found a [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m going to be in Germany for a university-sponsored “Reformation Heritage Tour” of Martin Luther’s life and works from May 21 to June 2. I’ll try to post a few updates and photos here, if time and internet access permit!
drupagliassotti @ May 19, 2009 # 5 Comments
Today my friend Jo called my attention to the new Sherlock Holmes trailer, in which Robert Downey Jr. plays Holmes and Jude Law plays Watson. We swiftly began discussing the slashability quotient of those two actors, which is rather higher than that of Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce, even if Rathbone & Bruce are the [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’ve been watching Death Note in anime and live-action and, while scouring the web for more L today, found this lovely steampunk L from Maru-Light at DeviantArt…. Nice! More? Steampunk DeathNote: L Tracks by =Maru-Light on deviantART
drupagliassotti @ May 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Early Victorian literature developed a genre called “the industrial novel,” a novel that addressed the new concerns arising about the urbanization and industrialization of English society, with a special emphasis on the plight of the urban poor. These novels revolved around the same kinds of social problems that were being explored at the time by [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I have the June issue in hand, and Clockwork Heart has been awarded 2008′s “Best Small Press Contemporary Futuristic” novel by RT Book Reviews! I’m very happy that my first novel has received such positive recognition; and without question, Paula Guran‘s sharp editorial eye and Timothy Lantz’s extraordinary cover art made a huge difference in [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Moving in to the new apartment means finding time to read again! This week I’ve mostly been on a detective kick, starting with… KOP and Ex-KOP by Warren Hammond, hardboiled science-fiction about Juno Mozambe, a dirty cop on the humid, lizard-infested, impoverished planet of Lagarto. Middle-aged and suffering from nerve degeneration in one hand, Juno’s [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Whew! I apologize for the couple of weeks since I posted anything here, but events suddenly converged on me. Not in a bad way, but in a busy way. (1) I just moved to a new apartment, after 12 months of noisy neighbors driving me nuts. I’m now living in an apartment that has no [...]