{"id":11903,"date":"2016-10-02T19:49:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11903"},"modified":"2016-10-02T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:49:10","slug":"september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11903","title":{"rendered":"September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29449640033_ee501072ab_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29449640033_ee501072ab_o-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"29449640033_ee501072ab_o\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29449640033_ee501072ab_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29449640033_ee501072ab_o-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then one day, it&#8217;s October.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how this has happened, but September is over. It wasn&#8217;t a super-eventful month, but it also wasn&#8217;t too terrible as far as these things go. I read some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11903#stories\">stories<\/a>, read some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11903#books\">books<\/a>, watched some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11903#movies\">movies<\/a>, and listened to some (not much, actually almost none) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11903#music\">music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"stories\"><strong>The stories<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read 39 short stories in September. And I liked a bunch of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Scent&#8221; by Maria Haskins (<a href=\"http:\/\/flashfictiononline.com\/main\/article\/scent\/\">Flash Fiction Online<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Prophet to the Dogs&#8221; by Bethany Edwards (<a href\"http:\/\/escapepod.org\/2016\/08\/03\/ep536-prophet-to-the-dogs\/\">Escape Pod<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;See the Unseeable, Know the Unknowable&#8221; by Maria Dahvana Headley (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/fiction\/see-unseeable-know-unknowable\/\">Lightspeed<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Talking to Dead People&#8221; by Sarah Pinsker (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/fsf\/index.html\">F&#038;SF<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Voice in the Cornfield, the Word Made Flesh&#8221; by Desirina Boskovich (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/fsf\/index.html\">F&#038;SF<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rooms Formed of Neurons and Sex&#8221; by Ferrett Steinmetz (<a href=\"http:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/\">Uncanny<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Old Man and the Phoenix&#8221; by Alexandria Baisden (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/the-old-man-and-the-phoenix\/\">Apex<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Warrior Boy Who Would Not Suffer&#8221; by Abhinav Bhat (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/the-warrior-boy-who-would-not-suffer\/\">Apex<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Houston, Houston, Do You Read James Tiptree&#8221; by Rachael K. Jones (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v537\/n7621\/full\/537578a.html\">Nature<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Delta Child&#8221; by Malon Edwards (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firesidefiction.com\/issue36\/chapter\/delta-child\/\">Fireside Fiction<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left&#8221; by Fran Wilde (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shimmerzine.com\/only-their-shining-beauty\/\">Shimmer<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Flight of a Village in the Midst of War&#8221; by Daniel Ausema (<a href=\"http:\/\/dailysciencefiction.com\/hither-and-yon\/slipstream\/daniel-ausema\/the-flight-of-a-village-in-the-midst-of-war\">Daily Science Fiction<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight&#8221; by E. Lily Yu (<a href=\"http:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/\">Uncanny<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Your Body by Default&#8221; by Alexis A. Hunter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firesidefiction.com\/issue35\/chapter\/your-body-by-default\/\">Fireside Fiction<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Lucite&#8221; by Susan Palwick (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/\">Asimov&#8217;s<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles&#8221; by Rachael K. Jones (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com\/stories\/the-night-bazaar-for-women-becoming-reptiles\/\">Beneath Ceaseless Skies<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Invisible Stars&#8221; by Ryan Row (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shimmerzine.com\/shimmer-33\/\">Shimmer<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;La H\u00c3\u00a9ron&#8221; by Charlotte Ashley (reprinted at <a href=\"http:\/\/podcastle.org\/2016\/08\/30\/podcastle-431-la-heron\/\">Podcastle<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My Mother&#8217;s Death &#8212; A Sonnet&#8221; by John Guzlowski (reprinted at <a href=\"http:\/\/flashfictiononline.com\/main\/article\/deaths-death-sonnet\/\">Fantastic Fiction Online<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Standard Loneliness Package&#8221; by Charles Yu (reprinted in <i>Sorry Please Thank You<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"books\"><strong>The books<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In September, I read two books: <i>Stay Crazy<\/i> by Erica L. Satifka and <i>Deathless<\/i> by Catherynne M. Valente. I thought the former was an impressive debut novel and the latter, while not the best thing I&#8217;ve read by Valente, is full of a lot of playful and poetic writing.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"movies\"><strong>The movies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I watched ten movies in September:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dope<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So I really enjoyed Dope.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/772215201693401088\">September 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>Straight Outta Compton<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Straight Outta Compton is quite good. Its biggest strength is its cast.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/772251968144302080\">September 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>Catwoman<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why is this movie? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Catwoman?src=hash\">#Catwoman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/772279684155510786\">September 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>The Man Who Fell to Earth<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I guess The Man Who Fell to Earth is a movie, right? It has a vaguely movie-like feel to it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/772614783292076036\">September 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>Star Trek Beyond<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I spent a lot of time wishing Star Trek Beyond was better. But, to its credit, it&#39;s maybe the first of the reboots to BE a Star Trek movie.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/772854665075720192\">September 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>San Andreas<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m watching San Andreas, which I will presumably later say seemed like a good idea at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/774752518098264065\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>Anomalisa<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anomalisa is a beautifully strange movie.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/774816582967128064\">September 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>F for Fake<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yeah, F for Fake has some interesting touches, and I suppose interest as an historical object, but it&#39;s not a particularly good movie.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/776929538492301312\">September 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The answer to my initial question is: nah, not really. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kSaDByd3Oe\">https:\/\/t.co\/kSaDByd3Oe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/779840809290047488\">September 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>Arq<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arq was a surprisingly clever, tense little no-budget time travel movie.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/779872267836817408\">September 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"music\"><strong>The music<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL62qRURJS1HBJtErug5YyaLOHpcIZpKcd\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then one day, it&#8217;s October. I don&#8217;t know how this has happened, but September is over. It wasn&#8217;t a super-eventful month, but it also wasn&#8217;t too terrible as far as these things go. I read some stories, read some books, watched some movies, and listened to some (not much, actually almost none) music. 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