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Yesterday, we read chapters Nine ("The Bailiff") and Ten ("The Yellow House") and the epilogue, which means we essentially finished the read-through on the Daughter of Hounds ms. Today, the Zokutou thingamabob looks like this:

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
621 / 691
(89.9%)


Not yet 100%, because that number excludes the appendices, but we have managed to make it all the way through the novel proper in a mere six days. Originally, I'd figured we'd need ten days, which means I'm four days ahead of schedule. Which is good, because whatever I have left to do on this ms., I have only eleven days remaining in which to get it done. This afternoon, I'm going to deal with simple line edits, and tomorrow I'll get started on the hard stuff. As for the appendices, we're not reading over them for now, not until I've made the decision whether or not to push for their inclusion. My thanks to everyone who's voted in yesterday's appendices poll thus far, all 107 of you. Right now, 93.5% (100) say keep them in, and 6.5% (7) say take them out. Me, I'm still undecided. Lots of folks have suggested that if the two stories aren't included as appendices, that I release them as a subpress chapbook or something of the sort, and a few have even suggested this would be preferable. Thing is, on the one hand, the chapbook hand, we're dealing with a situation where only a few hundred, maybe only a couple hundred copies, would be printed. But on the other hand, the inclusion-in-the-novel hand, we're talking about tens of thousands of people having access to the two stories. It's not exactly apples and oranges, but still. Anyway, we shall see.

Also yesterday, I got an e-mail from Chad Michael Ward, the cover artist for the forthcoming Threshold paperback, asking how I'd suggest he dress the model who'll be standing in for Dancy. I very much appreciate being consulted in such matters. When the original trade paperback of Threshold was being laid out back in 2000, my editor consulted me on which trilobite would be most appropriate for the cover, and so I e-mailed her several jpgs. of Dicranurus monstrosus, one of which was incorporated into the cover image, which pleased me greatly.

The show last night was truly fantastic. Even if They Might Be Giants didn't play "Ana Ng." They did play all of "Fingertips," which I never, ever would have expected. Back when, Apollo 18 was one of my SimEarth CDs, and I'm likely one of the only people alive who knows all the lyrics to all the bits of "Fingertips." There was also a guest appearance by Strongbad, and really, who could ask for more? The show was opened by Michael Leviton, who plays the baritone ukulele and was accompanied by a glockenspiel. I love going to a show and discovering someone wonderful I'd never heard before. Michael Leviton writes wry, anachronistic, genuinely witty, and very, very sweet songs with nautical themes. Think Magnetic Fields meets The Dresden Dolls meets The Decemberists meets Future Bible Heroes, with just a dash of Tiny Tim. We bought his CD after the show, and you should, too. Spooky took a few blurry photos, which I'll post later on. But yes, a marvelous time was had by all.

Even if TMBG didn't play "Ana Ng."

I forgive them.

My thanks to [livejournal.com profile] sclerotic_rings for putting me wise to asteroid 2006 HZ51, which will have 165 chances of impacting Earth. The first is June 21, 2008. Of course, as a high priestess of the Immaculate Order of the Falling Sky, I've marked the date. HZ51 isn't very big, a mere 800 meters across, but, still, drop it in just the right place at just the right time, and it might get things rolling.

Okay. That's it for now. Spooky's getting the eBay auctions going once again. Every little bit helps.

Postscript: I'm really loving the new Mac ads...

Gilliam/Potter? Source! Source!

Date: 2006-05-04 05:23 pm (UTC)
ext_4772: (Default)
From: [identity profile] chris-walsh.livejournal.com
Speaking as someone who has declared The Adventures of Baron Munchausen "one of my favorite films of my life," I must ask: where did you hear about this?

Re: Gilliam/Potter? Source! Source!

Date: 2006-05-04 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greygirlbeast.livejournal.com
where did you hear about this?

imdb.

Re: Gilliam/Potter? Source! Source!

Date: 2006-05-04 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robyn-ma.livejournal.com
Note that it's being treated as 'an extreme rumor' at this point, and that this could simply be the work of a wishful-thinking IMDb staffer. They've been wrong about this sort of thing before.

Re: Gilliam/Potter? Source! Source!

Date: 2006-05-04 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robyn-ma.livejournal.com
Aaand it's been retracted already. Nothing on either Gilliam's IMDb page or the Half-Blood Prince IMDb page is linking him to the film.

Re: Gilliam/Potter? Source! Source!

Date: 2006-05-04 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greygirlbeast.livejournal.com
Aaand it's been retracted already. Nothing on either Gilliam's IMDb page or the Half-Blood Prince IMDb page is linking him to the film.

Well...spoot. Thanks for checking that one out.

Re: Gilliam/Potter? Source! Source!

Date: 2006-05-04 06:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robyn-ma.livejournal.com
Sorry to be a buzzkill...

Re: Gilliam/Potter? Source! Source!

Date: 2006-05-04 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] setsuled.livejournal.com
This could have something to do with the fact that when J.K. Rowling was originally lured into giving permission for the films to be made, she was told that Terry Gilliam was going to direct.

Re: Gilliam/Potter? Source! Source!

Date: 2006-05-04 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greygirlbeast.livejournal.com
This could have something to do with the fact that when J.K. Rowling was originally lured into giving permission for the films to be made, she was told that Terry Gilliam was going to direct.


I did not know that.

Re: Gilliam/Potter? Source! Source!

Date: 2006-05-04 06:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] chris-walsh.livejournal.com
Thank you. You were gentle.

Date: 2006-05-04 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blu-muse.livejournal.com
Weeeeeeeeeee! Chad is doing the cover?! Hurrah! I love that guy. He did our StarVox business cards years and years ago and I follow his work closely. How exciting. Can't wait to see it!

Date: 2006-05-04 05:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sovay
The show was opened by Michael Leviton, who plays the baritone ukulele and was accompanied by a glockenspiel . . . Think Magnetic Fields meets The Dresden Dolls meets The Decemberists meets Future Bible Heroes, with just a dash of Tiny Tim.

I have to hear this.

Terry Gilliam will be directing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is about as cool can be.

Okay. Yes. That is damn cool.

*marks off calendar several years in advance*

Date: 2006-05-04 09:03 pm (UTC)
sovay: (Psholtii: in a bad mood)
From: [personal profile] sovay
*marks off calendar several years in advance*

After reading the comment thread above: sigh. This is like waiting for the film of Good Omens. I keep hearing that one's going to happen, and yet . . .

Date: 2006-05-04 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robyn-ma.livejournal.com
'Terry Gilliam will be directing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'

Are you fucking serious?

...Actually I'm not sure whether to be enthused or disappointed. On the one hand: a Harry Potter movie by Terry Gilliam! On the other hand: Terry Gilliam doing a...um...Harry Potter movie?

On the third hand: he does need a box-office hit (it's been eleven long years since 12 Monkeys), and this will inevitably be one. So he'll get to do something else dark and outlandish afterward -- maybe The Defective Detective, finally.

Date: 2006-05-04 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] from-ashes.livejournal.com
I don't know if you're interested, but one of the bands I work with has a show coming up in Atlanta on May 26th at Vinyl. The kids are called Clear Static - they're a total 80's throwback band, not sure if you'd like it or not, although I think you might like the other two bands playing Shiny Toy Guns and Kill Hannah.

Here are links to hear all the bands on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/clearstatic
http://www.myspace.com/shinytoyguns
http://www.myspace.com/killhannah

For some reason, I think you might really dig Shiny Toy Guns. I'll be there, of course, gotta' support my acts and all that!

Just something to do on a Friday night if you happen to be bored!

Date: 2006-05-04 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stsisyphus.livejournal.com
the forthcoming Threshold paperback

Wait. Did I miss something? Is the original out of print? Are they doing a second printing or edition or whatchamacallit? Huh?

Terry Gilliam will be directing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is about as cool can be.

That can't be right. Unless he's planning something like the original 1967 Casino Royale, that is.

Date: 2006-05-04 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greygirlbeast.livejournal.com
Wait. Did I miss something? Is the original out of print? Are they doing a second printing or edition or whatchamacallit? Huh?

The trade paperback will be going out of print soon, to be replaced immediately by a mass-market paperback edition, with a "corrected" text. Hoipefully, the much cheaper mmp will sell many, many more copies.

Date: 2006-05-04 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galateadia.livejournal.com
hmmm, i'm reading the trade paperback right now...a mutual friend of ours bought it for me as a birthday present. ;)
what is it about the text that gets "corrected"?

Date: 2006-05-04 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greygirlbeast.livejournal.com
what is it about the text that gets "corrected"?

Mostly typographical errors that weren't caught in the first edition. I doubt there's anything that most readers would notice. Just picky stuff that drives me crazy.

Date: 2006-05-04 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galateadia.livejournal.com
ah yes, understandable.

Date: 2006-05-04 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stsisyphus.livejournal.com
Well considering how wore-out my copy of the trade is, I'll certainly be picking up a new copy. Cool.

Date: 2006-05-04 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] setsuled.livejournal.com
I'm really loving the new Mac ads...

I thought they were pretty funny, too. The guy playing the PC is John Hodgman, who regularly appears on The Daily Show. He's also responsible for the 700 Hobo Names. (http://ia300127.us.archive.org/2/items/700HoboNames/Hobo_Names.mp3)

Date: 2006-05-04 10:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corucia.livejournal.com
FYI - NASA has posted a movie of the Huygens probe descent onto TItan back in January of 2005. It's a sped-up version of the data and images collected during the descent and just after landing, set to music. Wonderful!

Here's the link: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia08117.html

Date: 2006-05-05 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greygirlbeast.livejournal.com
FYI - NASA has posted a movie of the Huygens probe descent onto TItan back in January of 2005.

This is extremely drad. Thanks!

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