Monday's State of the Meerkat roundup

[lagilman]

Some days, Twitter, I just don't know.




Meanwhile, for those of you who were offline this weekend...

Publishers Weekly reviewed FIXED - a few month late, but they said nice enough things ("well-crafted" and "(a) comfort-reading cozy.") that we'll forgive them. :-)

And there may have been a drive-by snippeting for the WiP on Friday.

And who watched Cosmos last night?  I was a little underwhelmed by some of it*, aware that they were starting with basics for a good reason, no matter that we already knew much of it, and still found myself moved and very much looking forward to next week...  what say you?

I lost Saturday to an all-day writers workshop, where I did not make anyone cry but there were a few thoughtful flinches at certain moments, so I'm satisfied with that (if you come out of one of my workshops not having had a sudden Thought about your own work or process, I didn't do my job right).  Sunday was...  well, when I spend all day interacting with a largeish group, I need a day to recover.  So, yeah.  This wasn't the most work-productive weekend ever.

And while the loss of an hour for Daylight Savings didn't bother me, this morning the fog over the sky is matched by a fog in my brain.  So much to do, so few available brain cells to do it in.... *yawns, dunks head in coffee, gets on with it*






*they might have been better served by a smaller budget for computer graphics, is all I'm saying...

Comments

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I watched COSMOS as well, and was struck by the cursory tour of the solar system (at least initially) getting roughly the same amount of screen time as the Giordano Bruno segment (which was good, if challenging - the call to challenge authority and flip a revolutionary finger to intractable idiots was nicely subversive for a program airing on that particular network).

And, frankly, I cried myself to sleep afterwards because I miss Carl, and Bob Ross, and Fred Rogers - the Holy Trinity of PBS.

[lagilman]

I think they had to do the Tour of the Solar System, because a) it's a nod back to the original and b) we still have some... less educated folk ideally turning in. Need to get them situated.

Also, it allowed them to give a nod to poor Pluto....

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Watched it as well. I must admit, I am really tired of "background music" attempting to influence me.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I was highly unusual by not being all that thrilled by the original Cosmos. I thought it spent too much time either reteaching me what I knew or focusing on Sagan looking like someone hit him in the head with a brick orgasmic silently thrilled with the wonder of the universe.

This taught me several things out of the gate, NdGT is a more charismatic speaker, and it had a really nice nod back to Sagan himself.