literally

Hello, readers.

As the first week of November blusters¹ to a close, it seems a good moment to stop and look around, to take a moment and take it all in, before the year itself blusters towards its end², and share some small part of the all and everything with you.

1. One part of the all and everything, of course, is this novel, this thing I’m writing, in which feature robots, romance, and revolution, and which, during this NaNoWriMo, I’ve decided to entirely redraft all 120,000 words, or so, which works out to, oh, I don’t know, about 4,5000 words a day, which is ridiculous, but, then again, so is the length of this current sentence and that seems to be carrying on just fine without too terribly much concern about whether or not the thing being done qualifies as ridiculous or silly or what have you.
2. YouTube. It’s blowing up. Not literally. But literally. Like, oh my god, it’s literally blowing up, in the way the Brits use the expression, which is to mean the opposite of what the word means³. I’ve done a few videos. It’s fun. Other people are doing videos and having fun and also thousands and millions of people are watching. Here are a few of my favorites.
   1. vlogbrothers
   2. physics girl
   3. crash course
   4. scishow
   5. kwow
   6. zoella
   7. lastweektonight
   8. Also, there’s this article from the Guardian, or from The New York Times in 2005.
3. Podcasts. Literally changing the world. Radio is so totally back and not even on the radio anymore. It’s transcended and returned to form. Here are my favorites, organized based on content.
   1. Science
      1. radiolab
      2. 99% invisible
      3. the infinite monkey cage
   2. Stories of
      1. this american life
      2. theory of everything
      3. the moth
      4. fugitive waves
      5. on being
      6. strangers
   3. Pop Culture
      1. pop culture happy hour
      2. the incomparable
   4. Music
      1. all songs considered
      2. desert island discs
      3. the blues kitchen
      4. music that matters
      5. morning becomes eclectic
   5. Books
      1. between the covers
      2. maybe I should listen to more podcasts considering I’m a writer? (not an actual podcast)
   6. Nightvale
      1. Which I’ve only listened to a few, but figured I better put it on here because I know if it’s awesome and should be listening more and I will. I promise.
      2. There should always be at least two things under a bigger thing. That’s done then.
4. Where were we?
5. Books are still awesome. I’m reading Bleak House and Virtual Light just now. Before that, and my favorites this year being, among other things:
   1. anna karenina
   2. tale of two cities
   3. the picture of dorian gray
   4. doctor who: the writer’s tale (the final chapter)
   5. tigerman
   6. daytrippers
   7. strangers in paradise
   8. the girl with all the gifts
   9. I will not link to the books. They’re books. You’ll have to go to your library, or 3D book printer or something.

That is literally 27 links (not counting the one down there in the footnotes).

Happy near year’s end, readers.

ttfn.