"No pockets."

[eldritchhobbit]

dystopian year

Happy birthday to jalara! May your next year be the best yet!


I have some links to share...

* My review of Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon by K. Dale Koontz is now available in the hard-copy scholarly journal Mythlore and online at the Mythlore website.

* How can anyone resist a "Truffle Over Innsmouth"? Check out these chocolates inspired by H.P. Lovecraft ("Choconomicon") and Lord Byron, Dr. John Polidori, and Mary and Percy Shelley ("Gothic Weekend") at Polidori Chocolates. We wants them, Precioussss, yes we do.

* From Listverse: "15 Influential Early Works of Apocalyptic Fiction." I might add "The Comet" by W.E.B. Du Bois (1920), but on the whole, this list hits the high points of the pre-1940 literature, to my mind. (Thanks to Fredosphere!)

* Also from Listverse: "Top 12 Dystopian Novels."

* And from A Distant Soil, a thought-provoking guest post by scribblerworks: "Why Kirk is Mythic and Picard is Not."


"Grendel couldn't pay wergild. My theory? No pockets."
- from "Things Professor Drout Said: Spring 2009 Edition"

Comments

[sneezythesquid.livejournal.com]

Love the Kirk article, and it's dead on. I have to say that the new flick keeps that aspect of Kirk. Things happen because he's there, and makes things happen.

I think I'm gonna have to catch the flick for a third time this week.

[scribblerworks.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed the article (and thanks to our hostess for linking to it). I love the new movie, and there's a lot I could say about the Kirk/Spock dynamic in it (really interesting things!), but for the guest blog I wanted to keep it more focused.

[sittingduck1313.livejournal.com]

Here's something else that was said about it which you might find unsettling.

[scribblerworks.livejournal.com]

Not really that unsettling - it's a pattern that underlies many stories.

That said, very funny rendering of the likenesses! :D

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly!

I just saw the film for the second time and enjoyed it even more. :)