Adam Gallardo's Blog, page 10

The residency so far

My first packet of homework is due on February 7. All I have left to do is finish reading one book (less than fifty pages) and then write a reading response to it. So why do I feel like I'm already so far behind?
Part of it is that I wanted to have reread and cleaned up the Zomburbia manuscript by the first of the month. Unless a miracle occurs, that won't happen. There are also three short stories for me to rewrite. Two that I submit to publishers, and one that I will send to Jim Kelly. Jim workshopped this story with me at the latest Stonecoast residency and he's offered to look at it again once it's rewritten. He thinks it's publishable. Have I mentioned that Jim is a hell of a guy?
I also have a ton of email I still need to answer from when I was in Maine.
One of these days I'll feel like I'm caught up.

Links 1/21/11

This year is off to a lousy start, posting-wise. Not sure when that will change. I am sick. My wife is sick. My son may still be sick. It is a time of pestilence here in the Kreutz Gallardo household. But some day all will be well and I will start to write again and posting here will resume. Until then, enjoy some links to articles I've read over the last few days!
Rick Bass, who is an instructor at Stonecoast, has advice for beginning writers. Oddly, "Run away!" is not on the list.
Welcome to Project: Iceworm, a city built under the ice of Greenland.

Mexican drug lords are now importing foreign models and beauty queens as their girlfriends.

How have I been a fan of SF for so long without knowing about The Turkey City Lexicon? This lapse in my education was remedied by workshop instructor, and all-around swell guy, Jim Kelly. I note with interest, and without comment, the definition of the term "slipstream."

This is about ten tons of adorable

This video is making the rounds on the internet, but I couldn't pass up posting it here. A little French girl recounts the plot to Winnie-the-Pooh. If you don't like this, you have no soul.

Also, I don't have the strength to post anything else after getting back from my trip to Maine. Regular posting will resume... at some point in the future?

People I know eating in restaurants, Julie

People I know eating in restaurants, Keith

My view of Atlanta

Gone educatin'

In a little while I'll be off to Maine where an army of instructors shall try and penetrate my dense head bones in an attempt to fill my brain with knowledge. While I am away in the Winter Wonderland that is Maine, posts of any length will be in short supply here. However, since I learned last night how to publish photos to this blog from my phone, you can probably expect a sort of photo travelogue of my journey.
See you in a couple of weeks!

This is a test, too

The future of music distribution

Damian Kulash, the lead singer of the band OK Go, was interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation yesterday. Kulash talks about, in broad strokes, the history of music distribution and, more in depth, his band's decision to leave the major label which handled them and start their own. He also wrote an opinion piece on the subject for The Wall Street Journal.
This is relevant to my interests for a couple of reasons. 1) Because I like this band and am interested in how they conduct themselves and 2) because I wonder if what they've done in music can be replicated in the medium of comics. Especially on the scale they seem to be doing it at.
Here's a link to the audio of that interview.

Links 1/5/11

There was a night during Cortes's conquest of Mexico that he was very nearly handed his ass by the Aztecs. It was called La Noche Triste. (Via Wikipedia)
Knock know. Who's there? Alternate universes, baby. (Via New Scientist)
Hey, look, somehow Jenny McCarthy was wrong all along. There never was a link between autism and vaccination. Who'd have imagined...