Friday Quick Notes

Toe is healing, it seems. It's gone from taking me twice as long to walk anywhere to merely fifty percent longer. On Tuesday, the doctor re-set the bone, the hard way. It was really something. Apparently I'm a person with a high pain tolerance, which I never considered myself to be.


Cyprus is going for Guaranteed Minimum Income scheme, which should be exciting to watch.


Here's the table of contents for the Czech anthology PLNOU PAROU (FULL STEAM) in alphabetical order:
Tobias S. Buckell: Love Comes to Abyssal City
Jeffrey Ford: Dr. Lash Remembers
Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick: Zeppelin City
Mark Hodder: The Master Mummer's Mummy
Jay Lake: The Lollygang Save the World on Accident
Ian R. MacLeod: Elementals
Nick Mamatas: Arbeitskraft
Sean McMullen: Eight Miles
Tim Pratt: Silver Linings
Chris Roberson: Edison’s Frankenstein
Jeff VanderMeer: Fixing Hanover
Carrie Vaughn: The Talisman of the Cult of Egil

I'm excited to have work in Czech. I hope this leads to more Czech publications, book translations, bestselling status over there, and a happy retirement eating pastries at midnight cafes forever!

For people on Twitter, please check out the most hilarious hashtag in the world: #RIPLarryShippers. After Channel 4 aired a documentary about "crazy" One Direction fans the other night, rumors started spreading that a girl who wrote fanfic about Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles of the band killed herself. Then it was three girls. Then nine. Then fourteen. It leveled off there for a while. Then it's 42. It shot past fifty for a bit and hit ninety for a few glorious seconds, but then the group hysterics realized that didn't sound legit and it crawled back down to 42. Then of course, the rage turned against the band:



This morning though, a band member named Liam (making him gay with Harry is called Lirry shipping an angry teen told me this morning) said he hoped everything was okay out in Twitterland, and that seemed to resolve some issues.