Comments for Dear Diary

Comment on Notes from judo class tonight by John Jackson

John Jackson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:37:19 +0000

Half an hour was a nice beginning however I was tired I must admit. And Jessica has been humming the final countdown since we left the gym, lol.

Comment on Tesseracts 14 by Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:11:57 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on Tesseracts 14 by Doug

Doug — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:25:32 +0000

Congratulations, Pat!

Comment on Tesseracts 14 by Randilin

Randilin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:25:06 +0000

Congrats on the story

Comment on Movie review: Moon by Craig

Craig — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:58:25 +0000

It was pretty good… although it could have used more Spiderman.

Comment on Happy Louis Riel Day! by Susie

Susie — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:58:08 +0000

Yay for your sweet sister, and for cookies!

Comment on Some of what I wrote tonight by Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:42:27 +0000

Hmmm…

Torii = plural of torus, I think. So it's a city of orbital toruses. (Checking closer, it should be "tori".)

Elysium — I was going for a pastoral paradise, and I didn't research my word usage. That's an oops on my part.

Cloedine — a world in another solar system, somewhere in the urbanized galaxy; something that's hopefully a little more obvious in the greater context.

Comment on Some of what I wrote tonight by john

john — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:30:01 +0000

nice and mysterious — or is it too obscure? — i love that song btw — i've heard great renditions of it by musicians known to me. I wouldn't call sheep wooly idiots — it personifies them too much, distracts one into irrelevant thought. I like torii, though in this limited context i wonder: is shinto an integral part of your story; or japanese culture; or is it just a bit of cyber-punk-flavoured colour?
I'm not sure elysium means what it seems to mean here: in any case it poses questions, instead of either adding to atmosphere, or carrying on a plot.

However, I am intrigued: is Cloedine an asteroid, or a renamed terraformed moon or planet, or did another planet get drawn into the solar system, or is this another system where we call a place Earth, without realizing it's not the original? Or a parallel universe in which Earth has more planetary companions, even an antipodeal "Gor"? hee hee.

Comment on Geothermal baby! by Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:42:24 +0000

Thanks for the comments!

So if I don't win the contest, I should shop this around…

Which was kind of my plan anyway.

Comment on Geothermal baby! by Doug

Doug — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:21:57 +0000

Well, let's see: methanol is wood alcohol, ethanol is the stuff that'll fuck you up. Of course, methanol will fuck you up, too, but not in a good way. I believe that's the one that'll blind you if you get drunk on it.

I liked "Neither Bang Nor Whimper." I'm reviewing a story collection by Paul Meloy ("Islington Crocodiles") and your story reminded me of some of his stuff. That's high praise, by the way, since I think Meloy is the best thing since sliced bread.