Doom’s World

Five Minutes of Free Pornography

I gave up on trying to keep up with the various genres of electronica and came up with my own. This falls under “scratchy/samply”, verging on “beeps hard”. I dig it.

My brand new cycling pants are not even marginally water resistant. That blows. I’m pretty sure I’m going to try my Target polyester work pants tomorrow. No joke. I’m also heavily leaning toward the theory that cycling gear is one big screw.

New Year’s Eve was, good I’d have to say. Unlike last year there was no smooching but I met some cool people. The folks I was hoping would call me didn’t. Which was disappointing but not surprising. Fortunately, near strangers came to the rescue. On the balance, a good night. And I didn’t spend nearly as much money as I’d been ready to. W007!

Oh, the bike. Rode to AND fro work today. That’s probably 18 miles round trip. I didn’t make it to the gym, tho, because once I had my base layers and rain gear (except the pants, they’re not waterproof) on the thought of taking it off at the gym then putting it on AGAIN was just too much to take. So I put a reminder on my phone to walk to the gym (good warm up!) in my uniform, then return to the building to put on cycling shite and ride home. Maybe ride home, depends on how much energy I have after the gym.

Speaking of the gym, it looks pretty set that I have a workout partner again. Le yay!!! He just has to not be appalled by the condition of the place. It is a dump. If I weren’t paying only $14/mo I’d totally switch. But they’ve suckered me in with the super cheap membership. Bastards!!!!!

Check this out, yo.

Rob Sonic - Rock The Convoy
Rob Sonic - Brand New Vandals

Super kick ass stuff with an old school flavor (IndieFeed referred to it as a “boom bap” sound). I dig it. Seriously. In fact, I’m going to listen to RTC yet again right *click* now.

Powell’s Link

Science Fiction

One thing I love in a story is a setting you can tell the storyteller really put some thought into making unique and real. Which is the reason I stopped watching the new Battlestar Galactica. Melissa Scott has done that and the results are incredible. There’s established ethnic and political and artistic histories and conflicts that are not only detailed and completely natural but actually impact that characters and story.

Speaking of which, fortunately, the story is good, too. I think it’s a stand alone sequel and I missed the first one, which sucks, but the world Scott has created is so compelling I think I’m going to read it even though I know how it ends.

Roughly the story is about the conflicts surrounding the possibility of a true sentient artificial intelligence (think Cybernetic Samurai vs. “computer” from Star Trek) arising. It’s rich, it’s detailed and very, very compelling. And it’s a multi-POV story a la GRR Martin, with some changes in person (first to third) between POVs, which is interesting once you realize it.

Powell’s link

Science-Fiction/pseudo-Horror

Think middle-far future cyberpunkish SF meets Lovecraft, and it works. The early part of the story is told in retrospect after a cold open, not my favorite structure, but as the story develops it works in some pretty interesting internal monologues that are balanced, okay, almost balanced, by pretty good scenes of tension and action. There’s a love story but it blends well with the main tale.

Good read, I need to seek out more by this author

Doom says check it out.

p.s. about the “psuedo-horror”, Lovecraft’s entire milieu is pretty much describing things that are terrifying to his characters without actually being scary to readers. Don’t think that I don’t enjoy them. And horror sucks, anyway.