La Vie Boheme

Watching "Photographing Fairies" on the

Watching "Photographing Fairies" on the Sci-Fi channel tonight. This after spending the ENTIRE DAY (I'm not kidding), reading War for the Oaks by Emma Bull. Believe it or not, that's the first time I've read it. There's something vaguely unsatisifying about it, just like there was with the Charles de Lint I've read. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed both. I'm dying to play Changeling again after reading today. But it was like the old joke about eating Chinese food. An hour later I was hungry again. I'm starting to understand the introduction to Night Shift, where John D. McDonald talked about reading voraciously, and reading everything with either a grinding envy or a wearying contempt. He didn't say anything about feeling both. Which I do. I'm insanely envious that these authors got to this field before me, but I'm irritated too, because deep down part of me thinks I could have done more with their ideas. Is that egotistical enough for you?

In other news, I obviously haven't written yet today, but I do have a new title for "Blue Lady", it's over on the left sidebar. Stolen shamelessly and paraphrased, I might add, from a quote in "Photographing Fairies".