Polarized into existence, magnet heart from red to blue

[sovay]

So I tried InspiroBot, the random generator of inspirational quotes that is going through my Facebook friendlist like surrealist wildfire. I think I lost:



As handful_ofdust says encouragingly, "One can try!"

I've learned that my short story "The Trinitite Golem" (Clockwork Phoenix #5) has received honorable mentions in both Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection and Helen Marshall and Michael Kelly's The Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 4, neither of which I was expecting and both of which I am happy about.

Having been out of touch with Badass of the Week for some years, I am very grateful to have been pointed toward their entry for Joe Beyrle. "I shouldn't have to go around reminding you that 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off' is pretty much the only phrase in recorded history that Captain America, George S. Patton, and The Dead Kennedys have ever completely agreed upon without even the slightest bit of argument—so clearly there has to be something tangible behind that sentiment."

I don't know what you call this kind of photoset illustration of a piece of poetry, but I really like it.

Comments

[moon_custafer]

It is, however, the mugshot of a man in a quite nice if basic handknit vest.

Sorry, I notice these things.

[kore]

OMG, maybe his mother made it? Or a Red Cross volunteer?

[moon_custafer]

Either is possible.

[ethelmay]

From my dad's WWII memoir: "One of my new colleagues in hospital got, from the Red Cross, a sleeveless wool sweater, hand knit by a woman in some place like Peoria. Her name and address were enclosed, so he dutifully wrote and thanked her profusely, tactfully avoiding the uselessness of wool garments in places such as southern India. She wrote right back a most astonishing letter, saying she would never have knit the sweater had she known it would go to a POW, to a coward who would surrender to the enemy. In the face of that monumental ignorance of the nature of modern warfare he, who had crashed in Burma wounded, burned, and 500 miles from friendly territory before ‘surrendering,’ decided to abandon that hopeless correspondence. But most such gifts were more useful and also from people who were glad that POWs had received them."

[sovay]

From my dad's WWII memoir

Is it published? You keep quoting bits and they are always good.

[ethelmay]

No, it's not. I really need to work on learning ebook formatting properly one of these days.