katster's closet

Because I would love to get my hands on this collection.

Alas, I am still not yet a multi-millionare, so I’ll have to keep dreaming.

Originally published at retstak.org. You can comment here or there.

I have entered more than a thousand books into my LibraryThing catalog. I still have a dozen and a half boxes of books to go through. Maybe more.

Just when does a book collection become 'too many books', anyway?

We're all doing well.

Tomorrow is packing and straightening, for DJ and Zoe get their mommy and daddy back. :)

The last couple days have been a whirlwind, but it's been wonderfully fun. I've started a new book (Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth by Marcia Bjornerud) which is very interesting thus far (and I read it all the way back on BART tonight). Last night, I had dinner with spitgirl, whom I hadn't seen in ages, and luns, whom I have seen fairly recently, seeing as how it was just a little over a week ago I spent a night at his place. Tonight was a sudden whirlwind run into the City (which there are some musings on in my notebook, and there shall probably be more written on it later) to have dinner with damienroc Somebody said hi to me as I was walking to Metreon, and they looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn't place them. (If that was you, speak up.)

Also, the Antacalypse happened yesterday, and the result is no more ants. Always good.

Lastly, I straightened out a bit of a misunderstanding with mrfnord, so it's been good for my sanity. Also, in relation to sanity, I think the pills work when I bother to take them. ;)

That's about it. Anything else? Dunno.

So you want to write rapturefic? I mean, you probably don't, but just in case, I figure I'd offer one quick thought. I may continue this series later, but I picked up a new book and the first page made me cringe a bit. So here is rule #1 for what not to do:

Do not name your Antichrist character Damien or Damon. I understand names are fraught with significance, but there's significance and then there's beating your reader over the head with a bloody hammer, and using that name appears slightly closer to the latter. Also, you might think you're being clever making your character Italian, with the whole Roman Empire thing, but really. It's been somewhat overdone, and yes, while I'm glad you can read a map and see that Rome is in Italy, wouldn't it be more fun to either use a country in the Roman Empire that isn't so bloody obvious or consider the whole Roman Empire thing symbolism?

...oh right, these are fundies, maybe the bleeding obvious is necessary.

Anyway, even with as much as the Left Behind books are trite and formulaic (as is the whole genre, really), the naming of their Antichrist figure as Nicolae Carpathia and the fact he's Romanian (which is still bloody obvious, but not as fracking obvious as Italy) shows that some thought was paid on the issue of names.

Speaking of which, one of these days, I need to doodle up an IN angel who happens to bear the unfortunate name of Damien. ;) But that's a story for another time.