Bierce and Stross

[prog]

After aspartaimee started repeatedly complaining about my Herr Doktor Rotwang userpic, a Rotwang-hating movement geared up within my flist. I've retired him as my default icon; you get to look at ol' Ambrose until I can think of something better.

In other news, it's been two weeks since I was last at my desk at ITA, and in the interim someone swapped headsets of my two phones. (I don't know why I have two phones).

I read and enjoyed the Charlie Stross novella Missile Gap this morning. You can read it in its entirety online here, as well as purchasey information if you're into that sort of thing. The story summary is basically "What if Charlie Stross tried to write a Cold War political thriller?" It's quite depressing but really the tone's set in the first few paragraphs.

I was sad during my lunchbreak in failing to find the original of one of my turn-of-the-century comics (though interested to find a lot of other stuff; maybe I'll scan em and post a retrospective sometime). I had promised this particular one to a friend as a present, and my not being sure where it is gnaws at me; it's some of my best work in an artistic area I haven't practiced in many years. I'm sure it's buried somewhere. More incentive to clean my damn room, perhaps.

Comments

[radtea.livejournal.com]

I kinda liked Herr Doktor myself.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Hear hear!

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

me too!

[classicaljunkie.livejournal.com]

Don't listen to them! That doktor userpic was super creepy. Yay for retirement. I miss that katamari dude myself - why don't you bring him back?

[mr-choronzon.livejournal.com]

Good move! I really didn't like that pic. I wanted to gouge out his eyes with a spoon.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I do not understand the Rotwang hate.

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

for me, it was the teeth. and the unfortunate choice he made in terms of foundation make-up color. he should have gone and gotten his colors done at Nordstrom before buying.