After a week of chaos, my flat has returned to a state of Tidyness-Usefulness equilibrium. I can have the place tidy and the girlfriend can have access to her clothes and things. Compromises are what relationships are based on. I gave up on making her sleep in the storage space in the basement pretty quickly. I'm a reasonable person that way. This cohabitation thing would not have been possible without the wholesale rejection of materialism by both parties.
- Lauren Wissot continues the journey of self-discovery as she tries to find her voice as a film critic over at The House Next Door. Personally, I think Roger Ebert's film reviews would be far more interesting if he dropped in annecdotes about having sex with body-builders.
- Ron at Galleycat talks about the re-issuing of books with DVD extra-type material. Rudy Rucker did this with Postsingular by making his notes available to download and Gaiman's Anansi Boys had some stuff at the back of it too. I was thinking about this after reading Martin Lewis' excellent Fruitless Recursion review of Roz Kaveney's book on SF film and I think the problem is that while film has a 'cult of the author' thing going on, books have moved past it. So Rudy Rucker making his thought processes publically available effectively adds nothing to my understanding of the book. Also the trend strikes me as a way of selling old titles at inflated prices to people who bought them the first time around. If you're going to do it, do it the way Rucker and Egan do it.
- Fabio Fernandes reviews an oldy but goody at The Fix, it's Kelly Link's Magic For Beginners. I think this might well form the basis for quite an interesting feature... a series of linked reviews of great collections of same-author shoft fiction.
- Mlawski at Overthinkingit has a lok at Pan's Labyrinth, tries to work out why it doesn't quite work and suggests ways of fixing it.
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