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Two days ago, one of my glorious friends gave me a plush toy whale as a 'I don't need this and you seem to like it' day present. He is smallish, about the size of my foot, and I discovered that he could balance very easily on my head without falling off, so long as I didn't do any jumping around or low bowing (what do you mean that isn't one of your first criteria for a good present? What kind of deprived childhood did you have?!)
At first the Wearing a Whale Day thing started out as a short jaunt from Homeclass to Modern History, down a flight of stairs, to see if I could keep him on my head. I managed it. And with the kind of logic that only comes to the clinically geeky and mildly insane, I thought, "I bet I could balance him there for a whole day!"
( And so I did. )
Why oh why is there no fandom for the Hungry City Chronicles? They are some of the most deeply awesome books I've read lately. I mean come on! Victorian Post-Apocolyptic Joy with moving cities that eat other cities and names like 'Chudleigh Pomeroy' and pirates for some reason and blimps and zombie robots called Stalkers and the snarly, damaged love that is Hester Shaw! HOW COULD THIS NOT BE AWESOME.
ALSO. I re-read Sabriel and started again on Abhorsen and have come to the conclusion that it could be the coolest comic series on the face of the earth except for, you know, Sandman. Or a really, really neat movie. If they got a decent director and a huge budget and people who actually care about the books to work on it. PETER JACKSON, I CHOOSE YOU.
At first the Wearing a Whale Day thing started out as a short jaunt from Homeclass to Modern History, down a flight of stairs, to see if I could keep him on my head. I managed it. And with the kind of logic that only comes to the clinically geeky and mildly insane, I thought, "I bet I could balance him there for a whole day!"
( And so I did. )
Why oh why is there no fandom for the Hungry City Chronicles? They are some of the most deeply awesome books I've read lately. I mean come on! Victorian Post-Apocolyptic Joy with moving cities that eat other cities and names like 'Chudleigh Pomeroy' and pirates for some reason and blimps and zombie robots called Stalkers and the snarly, damaged love that is Hester Shaw! HOW COULD THIS NOT BE AWESOME.
ALSO. I re-read Sabriel and started again on Abhorsen and have come to the conclusion that it could be the coolest comic series on the face of the earth except for, you know, Sandman. Or a really, really neat movie. If they got a decent director and a huge budget and people who actually care about the books to work on it. PETER JACKSON, I CHOOSE YOU.
