Screw the People Who Criticize Counting Things
drupagliassotti @ April 26, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The other day, a minimalist I read regularly wrote “screw the people who criticize counting things” with a link over to my post, “Why I’m Wary of 100-Thing Minimalism.” I find myself in good company. He expressed similar sentiments to a number of his readers earlier this month. What struck me as interesting about that [...]
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Das mechanische Herz
drupagliassotti @ April 22, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The German edition of Clockwork Heart is available tomorrow!
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Superhero Love
drupagliassotti @ April 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last Friday the New York Times published “Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away” about Skin Tight USA at the Stonewall Inn in West Village. The Skin Tight party — in which the costumes range from the familiar (like Spider-Man) to ones that only a comics geek would recognize (like the 1993 version [...]
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Steampunk Romance This Week
drupagliassotti @ April 18, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Steampunk romance has been getting attention this week! Heather Massey has written an update on the latest steampunk romance novels in “Steampunk Romance Watch” on Galaxy Express — I try to keep my reading up to date, but I hadn’t run across mention of Regina Riley’s novel Clockwork & Corsets before, so it’s time to [...]
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An Agreement with Hell Update
drupagliassotti @ April 14, 2010 # 2 Comments
I just got the edits back from Apex, and I need to go through them before next Thursday. It’s exciting to think that we’re getting this close to publication! Good timing, though — yesterday afternoon I mailed off the proofs for the Boys’ Love Manga book, after my co-editors and I painstakingly pieced together the [...]
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Trafalgar by the Takarazuka Revue
drupagliassotti @ April 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
This is the show by the Takarazuka Revue that I’ll be seeing while I’m visiting Japan from May 18-June 10. The first two weeks of the trip will be a university-affiliated travel study course — I’m tagging along with the students, not leading it — and the last week will be me knocking around on [...]
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Imagining Venice
drupagliassotti @ April 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
…And in a completely unrelated new project, I’m now blogging over at Imagining Venice, a new site set up for the art/communication travel course Professor Terry Spehar-Fahey and I will be teaching at California Lutheran University in Spring 2011 and, we hope, every two years thereafter. The blog will address course development, execution, and modification [...]
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