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Syzygy.
Everything Meshes - There Are No Coincidences.
Created on 2003-05-09 10:51:22 (#1050751), last updated 2009-07-09
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Basic Info| Name: | Got to get a raincheck on pain [fame fame fame] |
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| Birthdate: | 10-28 |
| Location: | United States |
| Website: | Bookseller By Night, Really Tired Person By Day |
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norda@livejournal.com BioIrrepressible dictionary.
Occasionally does duty as a wise old mother elf in leather.
My tastes lean towards "hard" science fiction first and foremost, but I am also quite fond of "soft" science fiction, horror, mystery and fantasy - roughly in that order of enjoyment. I do not delineate between media tie-in works and original fiction; to me, a story is a story is a story. Otherwise, my LJ interests and my entries themselves should give you an idea of what I find appealing.
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norda blog has been and always shall be my primary personal blog, no matter who often business matters leak into it. I've made a resolution to compartmentalize my life a bit more, so that eventually I may actually *HAVE* a life. Make no mistake, though - right now I am doing the work I love and that I was meant to do.I maintain three other blogs here at LiveJournal:
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booksbynight, a place for book news and a review site for what I'm reading/listening to/consuming, with snippets here and there of random bibliophilia and publishing industry commentary. This will eventually have its own domain, but currently is mirrored at http://booksellerbynight.wordpress.com. I welcome review copies... please drop me an e-mail.*
mikescomics, for announcements about the business, established 1976, that my partner and I have run jointly since 1986. Buy stuff from us!*
p_m_cryan, dedicated to business facets that don't quite fit into either of the other two blogs. This too will eventually have its own domain. Feel free to peruse all at your leisure.
"In Whose Pages May Be Found A Sylph Inviolate, Kippers Galore, The Hunting Of The Tarq, Richard Feynman On A Good Day, A Jam Session With John Coltrane, H.P. Lovecraft, And Edward Lear, Some Snippets Of Common Sense, Moon Magic, And Cats Of All Kinds In A Perpetual State Of Brownian Motion.
" 'My Angles Are Many/My Sides Are Not Few'. Thus spake Norton Juster's Dodecahedron. I share his dilemma...I have more interests than could possibly fit upon a single Web Page, so I'll keep it simple on this outing. I am a devotee of raunchy blues guitar and of Appalachian dulcimers, of pipe organs, Fairlights, Stratocasters and Washburns, steel drums, bodhrans and harpsichords. I keep ghostly company with an elegant white longfurred odd-eyed feline rogue and corporeal company with a dark and handsome human comic book dealer who doubles amazingly well as an engineer. I am a kitchen witch, a high-end audiophile, a journeyman Mathemagician, and a children's book expert. I am frequently to be found immersed in my books on astronomy, folklore and mythology, or else my two-volume set of ALL THE WORDS by Monty Python. I am an iron gargoyle in temperament, dyspeptic, sarcastic, and vain. But I have been moved to tears on occasion [just don't tell anyone...I have a reputation to uphold, after all] by the perfect image or written word or phrase of music."
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album cover art, alfred hitchcock, alphonse mucha, androgyny, astronomy, aubrey beardsley, ballyhoo, black and white photography, blake's 7, bluegrass, books, broadway musicals, cats, chaos theory, children's books, choo-choo bear, christopher abbey, cities, coffee, comics, contortion, contortionists, cthulhu, dangerous bookstores, david bowie, doctor who, emma from daytona, endpapers, environmentalism, erte, evelyn nesbit, fops and dandies, frank raymond michaels, ghost of you clings, ghost stories, gothic horror, guitars, h. p. lovecraft, half-lit portraits, harlan ellison, house m.d., jane morris, jeremy hilary boob, jethro tull, kakalla, kolchak the night stalker, late night horror hosts, libraries, low-budget british science fiction, manta rays, maxfield parrish, mayhem, midnight macabre, monty python, morgana abbey, mountain dulcimers, mountains, movie musicals, music, musical triggers, mythology, nathan brazil, nature, neil gaiman, new york city, no bon-bons!, northern lights, occult, oral storytelling, pen and ink illustrations, pepperland, peter david, phil foglio, physics, psychedelic furs, pulp magazines, ragtime, ray bradbury, reading, record albums, red dwarf, rock family trees, sandman, sapphire and steel, science fiction, sepia, sex, sexy librarians, shadows on walls, spider robinson, stars fading, stonehenge, strawbs, stupid stupid rat creatures, the blues, the supernatural, the wonderland tarot, theda bara, theodore sturgeon, thomson kneeland, timepieces, travel, treehuggers, tuva, typefaces, urban ecology, victoriana, vincent price, vintage clothing, vintage photos, vinyl lps, virgil finlay, weird old movies, william morris, witchwood, wordplay, wormtown, writing, yellow-covered novels
External Services:
 | norda@livejournal.com |
Schools:
Prydonian Academy - Gallifrey, County Dublin, Ireland (1963 - 1989)Miskatonic University - Arkham, MA (1980 - 1986)
Transylvania Polygnostic University - Beetleburg, Transylvania, Romania (2001 - present)
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