Tweets for 2009-06-25

  • I just got a sliver in my thumb. While cutting bread. The sliver was a bit of sharp bread crust. Ow. But, you know, edible. #
  • Finally a good excuse to start sucking my thumb again. #
  • What? No, I’m being not infantile. Actually, I’m having a light snack of long pig on crusty bread. #
  • I find this Alexander Reichstein illustrated cover for Marit Laurin’s Parzival to be striking and memorable: http://tinyurl.com/n6nw3f #
  • Even though it’s in German and I wouldn’t be able to read it, I want to order the book just so I can paw the cover … #
  • The Michael Whelan “Lovecraft’s Nightmare” covers for the old paperbacks were like that too. #
  • Trying to remember other covers I’ve had a fetish for over the years … #
  • Oh, right: Steve Augarde’s own covers for the David Fickling editions of The Various, Celandine and Winter Wood. I love them with a passion. #
  • Any book covers you’ve had a fetish for? #
  • It’s not a book cover, but I had a bout of contextual & visual lust over the illustration for “Tale of the Pooka” http://tinyurl.com/kutgng #
  • There’s some amazing covers in the War of the Worlds cover collection, including Cohen Zonen, 1899 http://tinyurl.com/nqyhbo #
  • And, the cover for a gaelic version, Oifig Diolta Foilseachain Rialtais, 1934 http://tinyurl.com/lxexpa #
  • The Daniel Dos Santos covers for The Duke’s Ballad and The Shaktra, which I’ve not read, are great: http://tinyurl.com/l4rx2g #
  • Still not book covers, but I’ve never gotten the old school goodness of eWorld and The Sierra Network completely out of my mind. #
  • Am I bugging you yet? #
  • I’m not touching you. #
  • RT @CaseyContrarian Joan Rivers is the human “uncanny valley.” #