I can't find any other books about fandom out there in a quick glance
I can think of a couple, but they tend to be academic in type, not popular.
A better comparison, in my mind, and based only on the 3-4 essays I read, would be memoirs of people who have done weird jobs or grown up in weird places -- an acquaintance of mine, Rachel Manjia Brown, wrote "All of the Fishes Come Home to Roost," about her childhood at an ashram in India, and that just came out.
Or, those
Thrilling Tales
collections of short stories, from McSweeney's. Who also put out a "short fiction (and a separate volume of essays) that isn't on your summer reading list, but should be" collection last year.
Nutty, that link is great. Thanks!
I need some kind of a knee-destroying accident that's interesting and believable. Something that would allow her to walk again, but not to dance. Right knee, since she's a right-handed person, and possibly requiring surgery, etc.
This happened to my niece Marisa. She got off a city bus and was hit head on by a bicyclist. Slammed into her right side, sent her flying - she's tiny, never topped 5'1" - and wrecked her right knee and right ankle.
Luckily Marisa had the fallback of being a brilliant violinist, but she'd been planning on dance. She was eleven at the time.
Hey, Allyson.
I found that guy's drawing...I knew I kept it. One of my few crazy stories with...evidence.
What I'd like to do today is play all my Miyazaki, at least the ones that have wonderful sky and cloud scenes: Totoro, Kiki, Spirited Away, Howl, copy them into one long sky and clouds dvd and set it to some nice image-evoking, low-emotion-demandy instrumental music. I've been looking for a way to the other side of the looking glass for the last little while. A door in the hedge to slip through, out of real life and the need to interact, cope, deal. Just a place to hide and recharge, with no demands and no expectations, for just a little while.
That sounds absolutely splendid. Maybe Kitaro's *Silk Road*?
That is a fantastic idea. I would pay you money to do that.
Heh. Too late. Afternoon over.
...Aaaand I have neither the hardware, the software, or really, the expertise to actually do it. But I'd buy it if somebody else would do it!
Hee. Yeah, I know. That's why I would rather pony up the cash. But surely it's an art form that someone is obsessive over. I mean, this is the internet, right? People do fan vids, surely someone is doing arty cloud vids.
