Yeah, I actually said that in a meeting I ran today about AIMS standardized testing policy. (ADE, by the way, is the Arizona Department of Education.)
“We must follow standardized testing procedures so we don’t get jacked by ADE.”
I also was the griller today. I grilled up roughly 60+ hot dogs and 60+ hamburgers. I just smelled grease thinking about it. I also got in trouble (or at least rumors). I was drinking an IBC in one hand while flipping burgers with the other. Imagine a 6’9″ librarian wearing an apron. Many students walked by, most very encouraging (“Is there anything you don’t do?” “Those smell great. You must be a good cook.”) but I guess a couple of concerned students went to their teachers about my brown bottle. Even teachers walking in to the meeting did a double take. “This is how librarians roll.”
Another sentence probably never uttered before.
I’m totally digging my phone. I loaded up Great and Terrible Beauty by Libby Bray and I plan on loading Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things. (The one where Sherlock Holmes tackles H.P. Lovecraft.)
I also want to take this time to point readers towards Michael Stackpole’s Talion Revenant. I was like, “Why the JPGs, man? For a Second-Lifer that’s not too tech savvy.”
Now that I have a phone that creates folders but doesn’t do PDFs, I get it.
I might even have to check out Stackpole’s Serial Fiction. I’m digging Kraka’s Holocam. I may need to do another project like this. (It’s crazy to think that the Year of Haikus is almost up. I feel like I can do them pretty fluidly. I should tackle finding where the turning point was for me…)
The Haiku
What will I type out -
a cinquain, a fluff sonnet?
The year finds a gap.
Semi-related posts:
I was going to say something crazy, like about how Fragile Things is my favorite Neil Gaiman book, but then I remembered that I apply the term to about a half dozen of his books. But Fragile Things (and Smoke and Mirrors) earn bonus points because I love compilations of short fiction, etc.
I love Talion: Revenant, too. I like reading Stackpole because I feel like his RPG background comes out in the way he details the world- there are a number of his books that I finish and then want to buy the campaign setting book that doesn’t exist.
It’s interesting that you mention the world-creation of Stackpole. That’s why he said fantasy/sci fi authors should be just as respected as “literature” authors. You mention a bus, not much trouble imagining that. But to create a world where the rules, albeit different, still hold firm is one of his biggest challenges.
The guy is so cool to listen to. He almost made me want to create a Second Life account. And then I realized I’m balanced nerdily in other directions.
Next question: Of the “Star Wars Tales of/from” books, which was your favorite?
And I, too, think Stackpole needs to create more RPG stuff. He did hang with the Gygax for a little bit, though.
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. Tales from the New Republic is a close second, because of I think Garm bel Iblis is awesome.
Man, now you have me missing Star Wars Galaxy. My favorite magazine of my adolescence. I probably still have issues in a box at my parents house.
I should go back and read Jabba’s Palace. That was, I think, my first Star Wars book. (Maybe it was Zahn…) My favorite of that, weirdly enough, was the Gamorrean who kept his dead buddy around.
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