tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post3769568671842886596..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: "New" Movements This Morning: THE NEW MYSTERY (Charyn), THE NEW GOTHIC (Morrow and McGrath), THE NEW WEIRD (the VanderMeers), et al....Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-5557095309081747822010-11-01T00:24:01.069-04:002010-11-01T00:24:01.069-04:00Thanks, Rick...and (I plead eye blear in the laten...Thanks, Rick...and (I plead eye blear in the lateness of the hour after the long drive home from DC, so I haven't read your World Series post yet) I hope the baseball has augmented the cheese and caf bevs...a little chewing gum, maybe?<br /><br />Tomorrow (later today), by special request, the adventures of sorts in DC...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-36766573519947432312010-10-30T13:27:03.049-04:002010-10-30T13:27:03.049-04:00Error...error...error I quit smoking 12 years ago....Error...error...error I quit smoking 12 years ago... quit drinking two years ago...Richard R.http://brokenbullhorn.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-87960490779722664862010-10-30T12:20:41.049-04:002010-10-30T12:20:41.049-04:00For the last week I've had a strong yearning f...For the last week I've had a strong yearning for old rock, cigarettes and Jack Black. That's not good, since I quit smoking two years ago and quit drinking soon after that... but for some reason coffee, pepsi and string cheese aren't doing the job.<br /><br />But thanks, Todd, I do need to clam down, I guess. I was just pretty happy I even noticed the reference in a way that allowed me to ID the group. <br /><br />You're putting up some quality stuff these last few days!Richard R.http://brokenbullhorn.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-80174668791891061742010-10-29T17:57:43.836-04:002010-10-29T17:57:43.836-04:00Yup. However, I wanted a plural. I think two semi-...Yup. However, I wanted a plural. I think two semi-close references to mid-'60s protest songs was enough for my purposes. Take it easy, Rick! You've got more important, or at least more pressing, things than FFB to worry about...(he's moving house, for the first time in decades).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-29010999243022940332010-10-29T17:44:54.119-04:002010-10-29T17:44:54.119-04:00first quick scan, I believe the correct quote (Buf...first quick scan, I believe the correct quote (Buffalo Springfield song) is something's happening here...) <br /><br />I'm too tired to go through the rest, so I'll save it for later. Cheers.Richard R.http://brokenbullhorn.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-66493392235670385052010-10-29T15:08:36.640-04:002010-10-29T15:08:36.640-04:00Missed one of these anthologies, Patti?Missed one of these anthologies, Patti?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-51459642374639432182010-10-29T14:57:08.887-04:002010-10-29T14:57:08.887-04:00I may gave missed one here.I may gave missed one here.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-84659210394366136322010-10-29T14:52:32.127-04:002010-10-29T14:52:32.127-04:00Well, I'm always happy to use a label when it&...Well, I'm always happy to use a label when it's to may advantage -- or in the words of Miriam "Vanities" Aarons, "Any ladle's sweet that dishes out some gravy." Pay me and I'll happily call myself slipstream. But it wouldn't, would it?<br /><br />[word verification: "poodra" -- sounds like an antiquated term for social inferiors, "the poodra are thronging around that starlet over there."]C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-75814696917193284702010-10-29T13:48:50.717-04:002010-10-29T13:48:50.717-04:00Or, at least, to labels as foolish in their creati...Or, at least, to labels as foolish in their creation as "slipstream" (cause, like, there's this "Mainstream" that isn't us...and then there's us...and then there's stuff like us but not us! Or, the alienated-infant level of set-creation)...or any that become cages rather than lightly-used handles, preferable with useful info on the attached tags.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-6256668832445121322010-10-29T13:38:55.339-04:002010-10-29T13:38:55.339-04:00I will rein in my personal vitriol at one of those...I will rein in my personal vitriol at one of those names in one of those volumes for asshattery on a monumental scale, but whom I haven't had to think of for years until this summer, when sitting on a bus in Bloomsbury Square, I happened to see him and wished the bus might just nudge ahead enough to scare him, of course, not actually flatten him, satisfying as that might have been.<br /><br />Ahem. So much for reining it in. But I'm with you on the cynical snarking. Sudden discoveries of "new" trends are always irritating to the people who've been toiling in them all along. Death to genres and categories and definitions (unless that causes my desk to fall apart from lack of definition for the word "desk").C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-59600303116049291002010-10-29T11:45:05.624-04:002010-10-29T11:45:05.624-04:00Well, as I somewhat cryptically perhaps note above...Well, as I somewhat cryptically perhaps note above, I think there're at least three things going on: Pay attention to this trend, Note that it's something interesting emerging from past work or suggested or instigated by that past work, and You Can Be In On The Ground Floor! The last is marketing. The others are a little less crass, but who doesn't want to be a brave pioneer?<br /><br />SUPERFICTION, DANGEROUS VISIONS, DARK FORCES, etc....Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-33934806565570008482010-10-29T11:38:57.320-04:002010-10-29T11:38:57.320-04:00Wow, once again you came up with books that have n...Wow, once again you came up with books that have never been on my radar. I'll be searching libraries and online to find these books. Don't you think the word "new" is overdone in publishing?Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.com