{"id":9440,"date":"2013-03-05T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T01:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=9440"},"modified":"2013-03-05T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T01:42:31","slug":"miscellany-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/miscellany-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a creative sort, you have an opportunity to collaborate with Neil Gaiman<\/a>. Unfortunately, the deadline is next Monday. I wish I’d heard about this earlier.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Coming attractions: Pixy<\/a> might be able to see Comets Lemmon and PanSTARRS<\/a> now. The latter should be visible<\/a> to those of us in the northern hemisphere soon.<\/p>\n

There are more comet pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Vertical, Inc., is considering whether to translate Yusuke Kishi’s Shin Sekai Yori<\/b><\/i><\/a>. If an English-language copy of the novel would be worth $25 to you, go to Vertical’s Tumblr page<\/a> and “like” it. They need 4500 people to express an interest before they’ll undertake the project, and I was only #699.<\/p>\n

Kishi does have one book available in English translation. I’ll probably include The Crimson Labyrinth<\/a><\/b><\/i> in my next Amazon.com order.<\/p>\n

If you’re not watching the anime Shin Sekai Yori<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, you’re missing one of the finest \u2014 and most nightmarish \u2014 science fiction stories ever broadcast.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Bambi Meets Godzilla<\/b><\/i>, rebuilt<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You can watch it in 1080 if your computer can handle it.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Professor Mondo<\/a>‘s novel is now available as pixels at Amazon.com<\/a>. I just got a new pair of glasses, so I’ll probably wait for the print edition and read it the way books were meant to be read, on dead trees. You can read one of his short stories here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

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A note on current events in the Catholic Church: everything you read in the secular press is complete and absolute BS. Don’t believe anything<\/i> you read. I suggest checking in occasionally with Elizabeth Scalia<\/a> if you want an informed perspective.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, here’s the Vatican version of March Madness<\/a>, and Christopher Buckley’s introduction to simony<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

\"guess_who\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Which famous British poet is this? The answer is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Via Eve Tushnet<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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