I'll put together a summary for you all later--as always, when I finally start in on a paper, I find it even more fascinating than I could have expected.
Right now, though, I have some cleaning to finish and some cooking to do!
- Mood:
accomplished
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There's a review at Amazon that sums up the book accurately:
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Last night involved fever dreams featuring eating tacos with Jon Pertwee, anthrax envelopes as a result of an online comics industry feud, and boarding schools that did not teach wizardry.
It was all sore throat and body aches yesterday... today is productive coughing and head congestion. I am drinking lots of juice and am sitting up, as that seems to do more for me than staying in bed. I'm wearing a sweater over my PJs, and wearing my little half-gloves on my cold paws.
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The "bottled lightning" icon has been brought out of retirement to signify the year's turn towards varying celebrations that involve seasons of light. I have many friends who walk many paths... Buddhism, Wicca, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and others individuated to their needs. But most, if not all, involve light, love, sharing, peace.
Wishing you all light in your lives, whatever you may celebrate.
- Mood:
sick
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No, they’re not kidding. The “Christian side hug” – because “front hugs is sinful.” Yep. Did you know if you hug someone normally you will end up fucking them? NOW YOU KNOW!
Also they’re “Rough riders, filled up with Christ’s love,” if you were curious.
These are the easy rules so pay attention, it’s essential
This ain’t no front hug zone. You ain’t that fly (something).
Stop. And listen. No front hugs and no kissin’.
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I was going to say something about Glee
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( Cut in case I have a 100 tweet day and scare the British at their morning tea )
Will there be more tomorrow? There will be more tomorrow.
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( Character History for the Star Wars Game )
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But that's not the crackiest part.
Maya Angelou was the driving instructor.
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We will see what the day provides....
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I barely knew him at all. We only met in person once, and corresponded little more than that. But we had lots of mutual friends. And my work would be very, very different if it wasn't for Rob.
I bought his most famous work, MYTHAGO WOOD, at the 1986 San Diego Comicon. And that book changed my conception of what good fantasy could be. It is utterly impossible to overstate (or deny) the book's influence on my subsequent professional efforts. STARCHILD took some structure from it, and in one case practically (okay, literally) lifted an entire scene from it. I wore Rob's influences like a badge of honor, because I thought everyone could see how his book had transformed me. And I wanted to share that feeling.
STARCHILD eventually turned into more of its own thing - but the echoes of Rob's influence still resonate within me. And the other works he did in the MYTHAGO cycle were examples of truly excellent literature. And even after I came into my own as an author, the ripples still had an effect: it was pure coincidence that hois CODEX cycle and my IMAGINARIUM GEOGRAPHICA cycle featured ties between Jason of Greek Myth and Merlin. The books are completely different in execution, and his work is in another class altogether - but when I found out about the CODEX books, I smiled. Because I knew I'd learned the right lessons, from the teacher who hardly knew how influential he was.
I'll see you in the wood, Rob.
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*raises glass*
- Mood:
sad
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Let me just say this:
My taste in music is ACES! Everything I like, I like because it emotes. It makes me feel something. There are a lot of good songs in the world, but if it doesn't make me FEEL something deep within mah bellay then I'm not interested in hearing more than maybe 2 times.
Artists currently driving me are:
-Metric
-Sondre Lerche (favorite song right now is "My Hands are Shaking" SERIOUSLY AWESOME)
-Immaculate Machine
And more but those are the last three that came up on random.
So anyway, there I was singing along to great songs and checking my twits and then Torrie posted this link and I just soared. I feel like if I read that EVERY MORNING nothing bad can happen in my life and I will always feel full of spirit and artistic motivation. I don't even know how else to describe that link. Please PLEASE read it and let me know what you think. Do you even find it interesting?
I find sometimes things that change me mean less than dirt to others. I can see it. I know I feel nothing for things that drive others. Good thing there's lots of stuff out there for all the different kind of people.
On this day:
In 2008 -
In 2007 -
In 2006 - ruh roh! I didn't want to eat!!! Trouble in the henhouse.
In 2005 - I'm not irresponsible, but I try to have fun in everything I go.
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The Cloisters is also always worth a trip (and a particularly fine place to go on Black Friday, as it's way off the beaten path up in Ft. Tryon Park at the upper end of Manhattan). It's always a joy to see the tapestries and the statues and such. Plus there's a great view of the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge out on the terrace.
Today I plan to get serious work done on a new Dragon Precinct story I've been working on for Danielle Ackley-McPhail's upcoming Dragon's Lure anthology, and I also have some audio stuff to record for both The Chronic Rift and HG World.
Cha cha cha...
- Mood:
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Anyone else have problems with this ingredient?
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I'm having to go grocery shopping tomorrow and the food I get needs to last about a month.
What should I stock up on?
How can I preserve my fruits and veggies?
I have a standard sized freezer/fridge combo so I don't have a whole lot of space.
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In other news, I was looking through my computer recently and realized I had a bunch of sketch pages scanned to my computer that I hadn't posted online. So hey, sketch dump!
( more under cut )
Also that last sketch is partially inspired by the recent series of portraits David Yoder has been doing, which you should totally check out.
- Music:St Vincent - Apocalypse Song
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Gaming last night with
pyat, velvetpage, momentrabbit, catsarah, sassy_fae, nottheterritory and introducing koresrabbit in a cameo appearence, although we kidnapped her character and took it with us so we could have a better droid. It was an awesome session - lots of table talk, but we got a ton done and there were some great character bits (and by "great" I mean "completely insane"). I'm cool with table talk, although I sometimes find it hard to heard what the GM is saying because my brain is wired odd and I can't really block out non-GM chatter on the first go. Focus is poopy. Thankfully Pyat is good at repeating for me. :D I also got to discover the wonderfulness that is O'Neils, a little local fast food joint that's down on Barton. Loved the burger and fries that I got there and I'll probably suggest returning there in later games. XD
Anywho, next on the grand adventure, we landed at mining outpost to meet up with our new contact, discovered that the staff turnover on the outpost was because a stormtrooper squad replaced them, quickly ran off to avoid said squad, raced another ship to claim an asteroid, discovered that said asteroid contained some sort of landing bay, a newsreel that explained some plot points (GIANT FLOATING HEAD) and, most importantly, some sort of portal link to the ghost ship that we saw the game before this one. We left off with the tech discovering that the ghost ship's systems were offline after a power surge and each needed to be restarted manually. So, yeah, A LOT happened.
I'm working on a log (anyone actually read those, lol?), but it won't be finishing until late tonight because I'm busy today. Not sure if I'm going to take Pyat's suggestion and put in some third person narrative bits or switch to a third person style completely. The exercise was originally to help me get into my character's messed up little head. I'm really not going to force myself into a scribe position because my character's mindset is so twisted towards the rest of the crew and it effects how I see the other character in play. Well, that's a lie - I think Kyrie can stand Moment and Erin's characters and there's some grudging respect for Catsarah's character. And Des's character can make club sandwiches and tea, so that can't be all bad.
Going to hang out with Mike and Lisa and play board games today. Once I get meds. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
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( In case you want to see... )
( And while I was already photographing, this is the highly elegant filing box shelf I hung up yesterday ;-) )
So, how did you decorate, if you already have? :-)
- Mood:
tired - Music:Loreena McKennitt: Nights from the Alhambra
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YESTERDAY: Spent a short time in Hamilton, as my niece had a big 17th birthday celebration at a Banquet Hall(all paid for by one of her friends. Quite a bit of change, so that's one good friend...). The theme was "New York, New York", so you know I was a little bit misty eyed over a salute to my fav city.
There's never enough time to do stuff in my ol' hometown. I'd need a couple of days at least to visit everyone or see old haunts. Course, that really wrecks me up, wandering the old stomping grounds. I actually had a very depressing moment at one point driving by a series of lonely looking apartments and thinking I might end up in a place like that. Crushing.
TODAY: Been cleaning up the house after a criminal amount of time ignoring it, gotta hang the Christmas lights, gotta go grocery shopping...arrrghhh!!
- Mood:
exanimate - Music:Jack Rice Show-Air America Radio
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