I'd kind of like to go

I get a Kentucky literary calendar in my e-mail monthly and this month's said that Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross are coming to Joseph-Beth Booksellers tomorrow evening for a book signing and discussion of The Rapture of the Nerds. I haven't read it, but I am making my way through Stross' Laundry Files series and while I haven't read Doctorow's books, I've read his commentary on the web. He was listed as one of the Web's top 25 influencers by Forbes magazine, and his commentary often comes up on library lists.

Unfortunately, I have no funds to buy the book, and hence get a ticket to go. But it sounds like it might be interesting. So by all means, if you're interested, it's 7 pm, Wednesday, September 5th. From Charlie Hughes' Kentucky Literary Newsletter: 'This is a ticketed event. Line tickets are free and available with the purchase of The Rapture of the Nerds, available September 4th, at Joseph-Beth Booksellers. Vouchers for the book are available now and come with a ticket. Gives Back Members will have a limited opportunity to meet the Authors first.'

Reading

The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
Necroscope V: Deadspawn by Brian Lumley
An HP Lovecraft Anthology by HP Lovecraft

Several '-ing's

Listening to: 'Viva la Vida' by Coldplay (embedding disabled) [lyrics]

Reading: 'The Concrete Jungle', a novella by Charles Stross (I'm reading it in a collection of his works, but the link goes to an online version of the story.) Also reading Necroscope IV: Deadspeak by Brian Lumley, still, as well as the HP Lovecraft collection mentioned in the sidebar.

Eating: Macaroni shells and cheese. Yum!

Drinking: Diet Sunkist soda

A quick post

Today's fortune cookie fortune: 'There is beauty in simplicity.'

Listening to: Delta Goodrem's 'In this Life' (Lyrics)

Reading:

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross (think Cthulhu meets Dilbert)
Favourite line so far (if you're sensitive to profanity, skip this part): Having survived the tentacled horror that attacked her on the way up to her flat--

'What the hell was that? she asks, rubbing her throat.
'That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to "Oh, fuck."'

Necroscope IV: Deadspeak by Brian Lumley
An HP Lovecraft Anthology by HP Lovecraft
(I would embed the last book, but the script aborts the page load on Internet Explorer 7 (although it works fine in Firefox)). Oh, well. I have a comment in to the developer; maybe there's a solution. But I found one that does work: click on the button below and the book will pop up. :)

(Sorry, it doesn't show up on Google Reader. I don't know about other RSS services.)

As you've no doubt surmised, my Internet connexion is back. Yay!