By Neil Gaiman
I am forgetting things, which scares me.
I am losing words, although I am not losing concepts. I hope that I am not losing concepts. If I am losing concepts, I am not aware of it. If I am losing concepts, how would I know?
Which is funny,...
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#Neil gaiman #Ray bradbury #FictionOh, hi. It’s been a while, no?
So this isn’t anything official, but in case my only making 15 posts in 2016–and this being my first post of 2017–hsn’t given it away, I’m not really blogging here at the moment. I haven’t shut down or anything, and I’ve no doubt I’ll return to this when inspiration takes hold, but don’t expect much action for a while.
Funkier’s gone through fallow periods before. Back when it was a group effort (2000-2002), we all burnt out on it after about 18 months and went off to do our own things for a while. It came back in 2005, again, as a group effort. After a while it quietened down, and I brought it back as a solo effort in 2011/12. I posted frequently right through to the end of 2015.
Life gets in the way. I’m still active on Tumblr itself, but more as an observer. I might spend my time on something more personal for a while. Who knows? Right now there just isn’t much time to spend talking about the latest movies or whatever.
I have no doubt I’ll be back here at some point; see you then.
DJ Premier and Torii Wolf have released another track from their forthcoming LP and it sounds great
tinker-tanner asked:
eruditorumpress answered:
The Atrocity Exhibition is pretty much the purest distillation of Ballard. High-Rise is much more accessible, and has a lovely movie version out (although film fundamentally cannot capture the feel Ballard’s prose, and Wheatley wisely doesn’t try).
I always say you can’t go wrong with Running Wild as a first Ballard book. Its really a novella, and it covers many of his obsessions in his usual blunt, accurate prose. High Rise is also a good place to start, and of his later works, Cocaine Nights is really good.
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Just think, kids: in the nineties we were so it there we had a Ballard novel sold to us as a thriller suitable for reading on the beach!
New Dinosaur Jr. LP incoming…
Some members of the DC fandom trying to play"But The Killing Joke gave us Oracle!!“ card is really bullshit since Oracle only came to be because Kim Yale & her husband got extremely pissed at what was done to Babs. They’re the ones who made oracle. If not for them then Babs would have been just another victim who faded off into the background.
TKJ is, obviously and unfortunately, connected to the origin of Oracle but it deserves none of the credit for creating Oracle and revitalizing interest in Barbara Gordon as a hero. There was never any intention, from what we currently know, that Babs would ever be used as a substantial character again or if she would end up limbo’d until there’s a need for Jim Gordon/Batman angst.
The killing joke was supposed to put an “end” to Babs as a hero for good. She was just a plot point in the book. A plot point that could have destroyed her career as a usable character for years to come if not for Kim & John.They’re the ones who saved her and gave the world Oracle.
So no, The Killing Joke is not what gave us Oracle. If anything it’s the book that tried to get rid of Barbara Gordon for good.
When people think of Oracle, they should think of Kim Yale & John Ostrander first and foremost.
One interesting (and purely speculative) point that’s come to light for me in recent research - it looks like, despite being published in 1988, Killing Joke was actually written fairly early in Moore’s DC career. Specifically, it was written pre-Crisis.I admit I’ve no strong evidence here, but given that, I really wonder how permanent Moore expected the shooting to be.
(Also notable: Killing Joke merely goes with “she may well be in a chair.”)
I thought TKJ wasn’t supposed to be canonical, that it was an Elseworlds story (or whatever DC called their alternative timeline stuff at the time), and it was an editorial decision to make it in-universe?
Anonymous asked:
eruditorumpress answered:
I’m not sure the “age” model works entirely well past the Silver Age.
The GrimDark Age.
