Just a friendly reminder, everyone: It's Bloomsday! For those of you not in the know, it's the celebration of Leopold Bloom's epic jaunt through Dublin, chronicled in Joyce's Ulysses. Ms. Hayden, over at Making Light, reminded me with her post.

To aid in the celebration, head over to Project Gutenberg for a free copy of the work. And the New York Times is talking about it.

Let's quote the user Lynn from Making Light's board (because it's what I plan to do in celebration):

There are plenty of authentically Joycean ways to celebrate Bloomsday, most requiring a partner and/or beer. I plan to celebrate by performing the dangerous act for which James Joyce is most notorious. Yes, I know it has landed plenty of people in jail, although some people only start doing it when they're imprisoned. Not a few people have been killed for doing it.

I'm going to write.

Here's some Bloomsday bollocks for you, that I read about a week or so ago in Neil Gaiman's blog: Stephen Joyce, the great git, says that any public reading of Ullyses without payment or permission is violating copyright And yes, it looks like he can say that, as copyright laws were changed from a fifty year span to a seventy year span after the original holder dies. Jerk.

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Here's some not Joyce things for everybody:

Sony Pictures has put up a teeny site for the movie MirrorMask. If you don't already know, it's the movie Gaiman put together with Dave McKean.

If you ever want to submit something to the grueling eye of an editor, presumably to be published, this is for you. Once again pulled from Making Light, it's a primer on submission. What editors are looking for, what they aren't, and perhaps most importantly: what they aren't doing when they reject your piece. A glorious thing, really.