sundry

Countdown to leaving for the west coast, beautiful Canada, and the beloved company of planetalyx and kelly_yoyo. I leave on Thursday. Yay!

Meanwhile, hard to get much revision done these mornings, but there's still some progress. Dayjob and lots of various and sundry to get done before I leave, as well.

I picked up a copy of Ian MacLeod's The Light Ages for to read; one more book to come with me, I think...not sure what yet.

Going to an Edgar G. Ulmer doublefeature at the Alamo downtown tomorrow night, with, naturally, that encyclopedia of film history, Howard W. Bluebeard and Moon Over Harlem. I'm looking forward to Bluebeard, as I've never seen it. A little Solstice creepout seems well and good to me.

I've been looking at the occassional foodblog lately, and these are the ones I like:
Chocolate & Zucchini
Farmgirl Fare
Orangette

I've been given a hard time by more hardcore sf writers in the past for spending a little too much time on food in space, so to speak; to me, however, food is so important, socially, culturally, in terms of the economics of societies, their agricultural practices, technologies, and so much more...plus it's almost as fun to make up new and edible sounding food combinations of the far flung future as to make up names, for me. And my sf is social sf, rather than hard.

So there.