It’s alive
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 at 8:30 amWhat was that I wrote about a skeezy, diseas-ey tropical city? I think if I wrote that book again I’d have everyone in Ashamoil permanently sick with annoying viruses.
I’m lassitudinal. Have some Gloom (Anton Semenov, DA gallery here), and some Martin Wittfooth, and a charming piece of street art in Rio.
Oh, and I’m now the happy wearer of a pair of flip-flops decorated with plastic jewels, which, when I saw them, I realised I had always subconsciously wanted. I think I shall keep them all my life and be buried in them.
August 1st, 2010 at 4:57 pm
I look forward to seeing the flip-flops!
August 1st, 2010 at 5:39 pm
After passing up those shorts, I had to have something with plastic jewels. Just call me Hoggle.
August 1st, 2010 at 10:31 pm
I have a weakness for jeweled sandals and shiny things on my feet. I freely admit it. I’m a crow after all and I love sparkly things.
I think if I wrote that book again I’d have everyone in Ashamoil permanently sick with annoying viruses.
Have you read “The Windup Girl” yet?
August 1st, 2010 at 11:14 pm
I’ve always thought it would be hilarious (if unsellable) if there were a high fantasy novel in which everyone were constantly sick and complaining about losing teeth, and most of the main characters died from a cholera outbreak halfway through. And then there could be a prequel about the last dentist-mage!
I love the street art creature! I have a huge weakness for tendrily silhouette-thingies, especially if they have masks, ever since the kodama in Princess Mononoke.
Link in return – your spam-catcher seems to eat anything I try to post that has a link in it, so search “coilhouse 1873 carnival designs” for some wonderfully monstrous carnival costumes. (if you haven’t been to Coilhouse yet, I think you’d love most of their blog posts)
btw, I’ve finally been able to get around to reading Baggage, and I loved your story – I keep thinking about it recently.
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Kirby – Bangkok ought to be a crow’s paradise, from the mirror-tiled temples to the rhinestone jewellery in the street markets — there’s bling everywhere!
I haven’t read The Windup Girl — somehow I’ve been off SF/F for a while. It’s as if writing it has somehow put me off reading it — don’t know why!
Emera – I wonder about elves’ and dwarves’ teeth. Do they grow a new set every hundred years? The cholera outbreak could solve the problem of what to have happen in the middle book of a trilogy. It might become a standard fixture of the genre.
The spam catcher must be pregnant or something — it didn’t use to crave posts with links, only gave me alerts. Those carnival designs are incredible! I love the theme. I wonder how many they made and wore? Coilhouse bookmarked!
Thanks for reading Baggage! Chuffed you like the story.
August 11th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Thx for flagging Anton Semenov’s gallery. Very well-timed shot of black humour.
August 11th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Wittfooth’s work is very pretty and dark. I think I’ll find a piece of cardboard to rip up into a thousand shreds just to keep my mind at ease, and then I’ll sticky-tape them all together again.
August 11th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
I think I found both of those artists via bunnylicious. That cardboard ripping thing sounds suspiciously like performance art!