Waylon Jennings and Buddy Holly, January 23, 1959
Emiko Superstar by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Rolston
Performance art squicks me out, but Emiko rules so it’s all good. Strong female lead character. Unhealthy dose of weird rave people. Explores the exploitation of artists. /like
Monster High by Lisi Harrison
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“Millicent Barnes, aged 25. A young woman waiting for a bus on a rainy November night. Not a very imaginative type is Miss Barnes, not given to undue anxiety or fears or, for that matter, even the most temporal flights of fancy. Like most young career woman, she has a generic classification as a, quote, “girl with a head on her shoulders,” end of quote; all of which is mentioned now because in just a moment, the head on Miss Barnes’ shoulders will be put to a test. Circumstances will assault her sense of reality and a chain of nightmares will put her sanity on a block.
Millicent Barnes, who in one minute will wonder if she is going mad.”
-Rod Serling, “Mirror Image”, The Twilight Zone (1960) (online here)
There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, the sea’s asleep, and rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger, somewhere there’s injustice, somewhere else the tea’s getting cold.
Today’s edition of “Books that distracted me as I valiantly attempted to be a good public servant and that are now waiting to get home where they will sit at the top of a teetering book stack until someone else from the library requests them and I am forced to say goodbye.”