Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sunflowers

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Marion
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Links

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Marion

Here is a link to Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s blog where he has Part One of an interesting essay on alternate history. By the way, if you haven’t read his novels, you are missing some good stuff.  And, there’s a planet … Continue reading →

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Lost in Space

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Marion

Syfy has the latest incarnation of the “Stargate” series, Stargate Universe.  This incoherent casserole of a show has a spaceship that looks like an Art Nouveau lapel pin, magic rocks and an incomprehensible plot.  They showed a marathon earlier this … Continue reading →

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Steampunk Dreams II

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Marion

Music!  Lillian and I met at Aroma roasters at a little after 10:30 am, and we saw a group of people, wearing red, carrying musical instruments out in the back parking lot.  We followed our curiosity out there and watched … Continue reading →

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Steampunk Dreams

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Marion

We walked up the railroad tracks to where the handcars were parked.  I said, “Steampunk is fun, but I don’t think the Victorians would have liked it.  They had a low tolerance for anarchy.”  “That’s the point,” Lillian said.  Sonoma … Continue reading →

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The Souls of Cities

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Marion

A Madness of Angels, Kate Griffin/Orbit Fantasy, 2009 “Life is magic.”  “And the dragon of broken and disobeyed signs was, in the end, an urban creature, summoned out of the city itself; and the city’s dragon, the lord of the … Continue reading →

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Your Sunday Morning Crows

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Marion
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Clockwork Angel

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Marion

“And then comes the final test, the infallible touchstone of the seventh-rate: Ichor. It oozes out of severed tentacles, it beslimes tessellated pavements, bespatters bejeweled courtiers, and bores the bejesus out of everybody.” Ursula K. Le Guin, “From Elfland to … Continue reading →

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Chaos Farm

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Marion

For years philosophers, political opportunists, mathematicians and scientists have wondered what we would reap from chaos.  Based on the photograph, the answer is definitive; tomatoes, artichokes and flowers. The Gualala farmers’ market is a tiny little market, but Gualala is … Continue reading →

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Heidi Endemann: “Painting is not Dead!”

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Marion

See this show.  Heidi Endemann is an artist of great technical ability and a powerful vision.  Her work connects with us on several levels.  Endemann’s years in the advertizing industry planning honed her picture-making ability.  Her work is realistic; nothing … Continue reading →

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