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More Death in Burma

by Daphne on October 2, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Posted In: Current Events

It just gets worse and worse. I had to miss posting a few days, so here’s what’s been happening for the past several days.

Groups Struggle to Tally Myanmar’s Dead
Yangon: Monks Massacred at Monastery

A (more…)

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Burmese Demonstrators Killed

by Daphne on September 26, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Posted In: Current Events

Overnight, monasteries in Burma were raided by government forces, and at least one and possibly as many as three or four of the protesters were killed during the crackdown. Read the details on BBC’s site (more…)

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Burmese Buddhists March in Rangoon

by Daphne on September 26, 2007 at 2:26 am
Posted In: Current Events

I’ve been watching the amazing protests going on in Burma for the past nine days. Here’s a YouTube clip from BBCnews from day four of the march:

Burma, also called Myanmar, has been run by a military (more…)

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People Power

by Daphne on August 28, 2007 at 12:43 am
Posted In: Environmental Issues

No, I’m not talking about Soylent Green. 😉

I’m talking about the green newscasts my local station, WCCO, has been putting on at the annual Minnesota State Fair. They somehow hooked a bunch of bicycles (more…)

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More Suz…and Joss!

by Daphne on August 7, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Good Reading

OK, I know I just posted something about Suz Brockmann yesterday, but today, she put up this wonderful story about having dinner with Joss Whedon. And since I adore both Suz and Joss, and the story was (more…)

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Contest for Suz Brockmann

by Daphne on August 6, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Posted In: Good Reading

One of my favorite authors is Suzanne Brockmann, and she’s currently doing a countdown to the release of her next book, Force of Nature. As part of that, she’s doing a contest over the next three days, where the prize is five of her hard-to-find books. I actually own (and have read) all five, so I’m not going to enter the contest myself, but I do want to see what the results are.

See, this is how the contest works. First, you watch this video of a Navy SEAL friend of Suz’s. In it, he tells “2 truths and a lie” and you have to guess which one is the lie. There are four rounds, and you have a chance to guess the lie in each one. If you get it right at least once, then you’re entered into the drawing and might win the five books. Details for how to enter are on the countdown webpage for today.

So, even though I’m not entering, I’d like to see if I can figure out the lies from the truth. 🙂

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What a Voice

by Daphne on July 4, 2007 at 11:36 am
Posted In: General

This guy’s performance gave me chills. WOW.

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Danse Macabre – A Reading Journal, Part 2

by Daphne on June 19, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Posted In: Good Reading

Danse Macabre by Stephen King and the Introduction to Dark Descent, ed. by David Hartwell

If you haven’t already, read part 1.

I likewise found his discussion of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde interesting. (more…)

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Danse Macabre – A Reading Journal, Part 1

by Daphne on June 5, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Posted In: Good Reading

Danse Macabre by Stephen King and the Introduction to Dark Descent, ed. by David Hartwell

The introduction to Dark Descent talks more specifically about short horror fiction than Danse Macabre src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=storyofdance-20&l=as2&o=1&a=042518160X” width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /> does. Where Danse Macabre wanders all over the horror-scape, from movies to novels and occasionally to short stories, Dark Descent (naturally, being the introduction to a volume of short stories) talks about short fiction and suggests the best horror stories are stories, not novels or movies.

I don’t have much of an opinion on that; I’m afraid to watch or read most of what I consider “horror.� At the same time, I love the Alien series, which King calls horror but I have always thought of (or maybe ‘rationalized’) as science fiction. I also enjoy thrillers, and reading King’s book and Hartwell’s introduction has me wondering whether I might be playing the same psychological game my grandfather did when he said he didn’t like chocolate, but loved Devil’s Food cake. A rose by any other name might be less frightening, in this case?

I wish Danse Macabre had been written more recently, and so commented on movies more recent than 1980. That might give me a better chance to compare, and see if perhaps I’ve liked some horror all along. Would The Sixth Sense be horror? It scared the bejeesus out of me… What about Dead Again, which I love, or Kalifornia, or the very recent Altered? I’m pretty sure Altered would qualify as horror, although – like Alien – it also has science fictional elements.

I guess I’m still wondering where the line is between a horror story and a story that has some frightening parts in it. Not every story that has some romance in it is a romance story, so I would assume not every story with a little fright in it is horror. But where’s the line? My dad found The X-Files too scary to watch, but I never considered them horror. Or are they?

One section I really found interesting in Danse Macabre was his discussion of the three types of monsters. Because of that, I now think I’d like to read Dracula, and that it might be a very good idea to do so. Not that I don’t know the story; I’ve seen the movie. But to read it for all that the movie left out, for all the nuance and ambience. Plus, it seems only right, considering I’m writing a novel about vampires myself.


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Educational and Interesting Podcast Sites

by Daphne on May 15, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Posted In: Current Events, Environmental Issues, General, Good Reading

Found an interesting post on podcasts being put out by universities, and another list of college podcasts here. In addition to the sites they lists, I also found several more universities that are now (more…)

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