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I'm running really really late because I got sucked into reading a fanfiction, but I wanted to update anyone worried about Jack to say that ... there is no news yet about Jack. I dropped him off at 6:30am (yuck), and he was acting his usual self. We saw the vet and he was very reassuring. He said he should be calling me by about noon. Here's hoping. (I'm holding student-conferences today, so I should even be able to answer.) He did warn me that it might take longer for Jack to fully wake up this time (it was easy last time) because there's more being done, but that was the only even vaguely worrying thing he said.
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| Scientists search for a 3-foot, spitting earthworm |
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| 08:37am 13/07/2009 |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xhAVZwnDPeo/scientists-search-fo.html A massive earthworm is terrifying folks in the Palouse region of the northwestern United States. OK, well maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but researchers are spending the summer seeking a mysterious, legendary 3-foot spitting worm in the rural areas from Washington to Idaho. From the Associated Press:
The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit at predators, and live in burrows 15 feet deep. There have only been four sightings.
But scientists hope to change that this summer with researchers scouring the Palouse regoin in hopes of finally finding the giant earthworm. Conservationists also want the Obama administration to protect it as an endangered species, even though there is scant scientific information about its existence.
"It absolutely exists," insisted Jodi Johnson-Maynard, a University of Idaho professor who is leading the search for the worm.
Researchers looking for 3-foot, spitting worm under Northwest fields (Thanks, Bob Pescovitz!)
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| Having a lousy Monday? Watch this cartoon and cheer up! |
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| 11:40am 13/07/2009 |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jourdannexand I came up with the idea of doing some quick animations based on telephone conversations. In the end, I decided I'd be better off focusing on other directions, but I still may do some with Jenifer at some point, as long as we can find something to talk about.
But here's a test animation I did of Johnathan Katz based on one of his monthly podcasts. If I were going to continue with the project, I probably would have had to abandon doing it in "squigglevision". It's a lot of work, and a lot of people don't like it as much as I do. SAVAGES!
Clickee dee above image!!!
I really don't know what to do with it now. I should probably submit this to ASIFA's "Roll your own" festival next time it comes around. I guess it will just go largely unseen and unloved, collecting internet dust, apart from the gentle discerning clicks of youse readers.
Thanks to my buddy Charles Reid for his help.
More Johnathan Katz action at WKATZ |
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| A Thought On Fiction That's Still News To Me |
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| 11:38am 13/07/2009 |
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"I liked your story," said Geoffrey, "But I didn't love it." He sounded quite serious, even grave, about this deep flaw. Then he gave me two pages of critique painstakingly gained from rereading it and trying to figure out why he didn't love it.
A year after I've finished the Clarion workshop, I think that's the biggest lesson I took home.
See, when I started out, my first act was to hand my story to my Uncle Tommy. He liked it. And then, if I thought it was good enough, I'd hand it to my friends, who also liked it. Even twenty years ago, as a teenager, I was perfectly capable of writing a story that people could get to the end of; my prose was readable, my characters not so poorly formed that people flung up their hands, the endings were a bit strained but certainly workable.
I thought good was a fine, fine thing to be. Then I sent out my manuscripts, and they came back to me transformed into little pre-typed rejection slips, and I could never figure out why. These stories were perfectly good.
At the time, we had no Internet, and I couldn't look around me. But these days, you have an advantage over me; go to any fanfiction site and you'll find proof that good fiction isn't that hard to write. There are thousands of stories written by a huge variety of people. And while there are laughably bad stories in any archive, there aren't as many as you'd think.
Truth is, most fanfic stories are readable - start them, and if they're of a reasonable length, it won't be a trial to get to the end. Some of them have a clever bit or two that stick out - a good line, an interesting concept, a solid plot. If you were a non-writer and someone handed it to you and said "Read this!" you'd say it was good.
Good like a thousand other stories. Good in that it was better than a non-author could do. Good in that it held your attention weakly for the time it took to slap your eyes on it.
Good in that once you were done with it, you'd never really think about it again.
What I didn't realize back then is that "good" from my friends is a damning flaw, the one that will stop you from ever getting published. Every editor worth his salt is cracking the seal on twenty good stories a day. A former editor friend of mine told me that if she had to grade most of the stories she read, the average would be a B - the competent work of a workaday writer.
The thing I learned at Clarion is this: You do not want good. You want great. You want the kind of story that springs unbidden to mind three days later. You want that fabulously bleak ending that echoes in their dreams. You want the kind of story where as soon as the reader's done, they flip back to the beginning to read it again. You want the story that they hand to their friends and say, "You have to read this, because this is me."
If you cannot do that, you have failed.
These qualities mean, of course, that you will fail a lot. Even professional authors fail at it daily - you're lucky to find two or three stories like that in any given author's short fiction collection - so what chance do you have? Not much. But if you keep working, keep honing the craft, keep really writing stories that are reflections of you, you might grab that third rail of glory once - and then learn how to do it again.
Don't get me wrong, getting to good is a struggle in and of itself. Most people can't do that; it puts you in the top 98% of society. But your fiction will not, cannot, end at a mere good.
When I was younger and far more foolish, I might have written off Geoffrey's critique. "He liked it," I said. "That's fine. I got him to like it - how many people can do that? Like's great." But these days, when a crit group says it was good, I know I have more work to do.
I need love. Big, gouty, gushy love from a vast majority of the people I show it to. Good is the new average. And until I get that love, I'm not good. Not yet. |
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| Help me learn to help others |
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| 11:26am 13/07/2009 |
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Author Aaron Alston needs help. Recently on LJ, there have been fundraisers and auctions for various in need folks in the F/SF community and related tribes. I'm hoping to get a regular fundraiser going on a project I'm working with, and would appreciate help by someone who's taken point on LJ based charity auctions before. If anyone who's run one could walk me through the steps of setting one up, and help me write a white paper on best practices/pitfalls for such things, please let me know, and we'll make a go at helping Aaron.
If you're working in the same direction as me, and might be further head, please feel free to point me at your efforts. |
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| the new surgeon general |
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| 11:25am 13/07/2009 |
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July 13, 2009, 11:11 AM
Alabama Physician Chosen as Surgeon General
By GARDINER HARRIS
President Barack Obama has selected Dr. Regina Benjamin, an Alabama family physician, as the U.S. surgeon general, two administration officials said on Monday. (from The New York Times)
For Rick Bragg's 1995 profile of Dr. Benjamin in The New York Times, click ( here ) |
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| 12:26pm 13/07/2009 |
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Declaration that OP doesn't care too much for popular medium of exchange involving coins and bills, as said medium of exchange cannot purchase him deep affection. |
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| 11:26am 13/07/2009 |
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Today's xkcd hits uncomfortably close to home. |
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| 11:19am 13/07/2009 |
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Declaration that OP has called in sick to work today.
Whining about how awful OP feels.
Request that community members entertain OP in OP's time of ill health. |
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| 10:57am 13/07/2009 |
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| Science fiction publishing trends quantified |
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| 07:20am 13/07/2009 |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/fHjp3JJUTN4/science-fiction-publ-1.html 
Strange Horizons's Valentin D. Ivanov has scraped Locus Magazine's "Notable Books" column going back to May 1998 and built a 10+ year dataset of genre popularity in science fiction, fantasy and horror. It's easy to get all impressionistic and say, "Oh, everything in the sf section is space opera these days," but that's as apt to be confirmation bias as fact. Here's the numbers.
How significant are these trends? Having only three measurements, we cannot provide rigorous answers, except for the major categories that are populated with sufficient numbers of books. A linear fit to the points in Figure 1 gives us the rate of increase of the number of books included in Locus Online reviews, averaged over the entire time period. For example, for SF it is 11.5 ± 0.9 books per year. In other words, the number of the reviewed SF books has increased on average by 11-12 every year between 1998 and 2007. The rate for fantasy is 26.9 ± 7.7; for horror 3.1 ± 0.7; and for other books 4.1 ± 1.0 (all in units of books per year). The uncertainty margins are the formal fitting errors. The larger uncertainty in fantasy's growth rate reflects a systematic error due to the fact that this category has inflated only recently, and the linear model is not an adequate representation of its behaviour. Fantasy's lead over SF in terms of growth rate is a margin of about 15 books per year. The probability of this happening by chance is extremely small--about 1-in-1010. Therefore, we are likely facing a statistically significant nonrandom trend here.
It appears that the invasion of the sequels is truly happening. However, this result is not as obvious as the previous one--Figure 3 suggests that the proportion of sequels included in Locus Online reviews remains nearly constant after the 2001-2002 period. In other words, the changes are well within the expected random variations, shown in the plot with error bars.
A Statistical Study of Locus Online's "Notable Books"
(via Making Light)
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| State Fair photos |
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| 07:16am 13/07/2009 |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/P-q4Bclo680/state-fair-photos.html 
Marylin sez, "Joel Sartore's photos from various state fairs capture some bizarre moments: like hissing cockroaches from Madagascar pulling tiny tractors; Minnesota sisters with rainbow glitter pigtails; bleachers full of 8,400 Iowa fairgoers all about to bite into corndogs simultaneously; Minnesota Dairy Princess Kristy Mussman posing in a freezer so a sculptor can render her likeness in a giant slab of butter; contestants in a mother-daughter lookalike contest; volunteers in Iowa all slumped over in folding chairs at the suggestion of a hypnotist. Garrison Keillor wrote the state fair feature story in the August issue on National Geographic, enumerating the Ten Chief Joys of the State Fair."
The Ten Chief Joys of the State Fair are:
1. To eat food with your two hands.
2. To feel extreme centrifugal force reshaping your face and jowls as you are flung or whirled turbulently and you experience that intense joyfulness that is indistinguishable from anguish, or (as you get older) to observe other persons in extreme centrifugal situations.
3. To mingle, merge, mill, jostle gently, and flock together with throngs, swarms, mobs, and multitudes of persons slight or hefty, punky or preppy, young or ancient, wandering through the hubbub and amplified razzmatazz and raw neon and clouds of wiener steam in search of some elusive thing, nobody is sure exactly what.
State Fair Joys
Take in the State Fair (Keillor)
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| 09:42am 13/07/2009 |
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| 10:27am 13/07/2009 |
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So I think, for a little bit, I will take suggestions on what to blog about.
PLEASE NOTE I am not asking for skits. Seriously. I will ignore and possibly berate any request for like "Lord of the Rings meets Evil Dead!" No. I am looking for ideas of things to dig into and discuss.
So really I am asking what you'd like to hear my thoughts on. More cartoons? Music thoughts, life stuff ... I don't know. Suggest things. |
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| Readercon panels |
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| 10:21am 13/07/2009 |
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In the past, I've done huge wrap-ups of panels, and I burn out after two or three write-ups. So I'm trying something different. Here's a wrap-up of all the panels I attended, with only a few sentences about each. Got questions (or comments if you were at some of these)? Ask away, and I'll answer.
Friday:
The Nature of Evil in Horror Fiction: Great panel featuring a number of theories by folks like Clute and Schweitzer. Clute noted the idea of evil as a "vacancy," of morality, as well as in physical spaces (he noted that we were in a hotel, near a mall, on a ring road, all of which symbolize vacancies. Laird Barron noted that evil can't be witnessed without outside context, and that evil usually forms from conflicts of intent (both indicating that those who commit evil rarely recognize themselves as evil). Works cited were numerous, and included Peter Straub, Cormac McCarthy, Faust, Lovecraft, Woody Allen, and more. Chip Delaney, from the audience, suggested that people "do nice things in the world for the same reason that you masturbate," which may be the best rephrasing of Ayn Rand I've ever heard.
The Year in Novels. Featuring Paul Witcover, Graham Sleight, Ernest Lilley, Charles Brown, and Shira Lipkin (woohoo!). Lots and lots of talk about great (and not-so-great) works from 2008, with a little bit about 2009. I didn't take extensive notes here, but Brown had a handout that some folks got (I came in late, though).
Interfictions 2 Reading. Yet another panel with shadesong! Yay! More importantly, every single piece read (and there were excerpts from ten pieces, I think) was awesome. Some were from Interfictions 1, as well. Reminder: You can pre-order the book now!
How I Wrote The Orphan’s Tales, by Catherynne Valente. I knew much (but not nearly all) of the backstory here, and yuki_onna is as good a storyteller when telling her own story (or the story behind her books, as it were) as when she writes her novels.
How Do We Choose What We Read? This was an ill-defined, but interesting panel featuring Michael Bishop, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda, and a number of other interesting panelists. Wish I'd had my computer with me to take notes, but there was good discussion of early influences, perception of genre, and other fun stuff.
Meet the Pros(e) party. A giant crowded clusterfuck. If you're as introverted as me, you'll hate this with a screaming vengeance. If the room had been twice as big, the idea itself was great, though, giving each pro a sticker sheet with a sentence they've chosen from their own work on it, and the pros giving them out to folks (or trading with each other). And there was cake.
Saturday:
Notes on the Superhero. The first part of John Clute's paper on the Count of Monte Cristo as a proto-superhero, focusing mainly on the ties to Superman, but with some good Q&A about Batman (with the focus on both of them in their '30s incarnations, not the present day, of course).
How I wrote Enclave, by Kit Reed. In this case, it was, essentially, "the life of Kit Reed," as there wasn't quite as much backstory directly relevant to this book. But it was a great panel, and Reed is a nifty speaker and person (and graciously signed my copy of the book).
The Killers Inside Us: In many ways a sequel to the Nature of Evil panel. This focused explicitly on psychosis in literature (and in film/tv, by extension). There was some discussion, of course, of whether evil existed, but most of the focus was on the fact that psycopaths are made, bit by bit, and that they offer many, many warning signs, both items overlooked in slashers in general. I also learned that Barry Longyear went to school with Gary Heidnik. Also, at some point, I wrote down the phrase, "the truth of coherence as opposed to the truth of correspondence," on a notecard, quoting someone either in the room or on the panel. I really should have brought a laptop to capture context.
Novels of Advocacy vs Novels of Recognition. Another ill-defined panel, but also fun. Lots of discussion of Canadian and US differences in approaching novels, as well as of writers like Heinlein (I was so glad to hear a panelist -- I want to say it was Ken Houghton -- call the end of The Roads Must Roll "Bullshit"). The question of a negative advocacy (did I mention that Paolo Bacigalupi was on the panel) was mentioned, as was the idea that the line between recognition/advocacy doesn't exist.
Liz Hand Reading: Liz read from the upcoming novella, "The Maiden Flight of McCauley‘s Bellerophon." It was, not surprisingly, wonderful
Kirk Poland Bad Prose Tournament of Champions. I'm not used to seeing Yves not finish in the top two. Some awful, awful stuff. Loved it. At one point, I snarked audibly in reaction to a passage in which the "author" claimed that no one, not even the editor, was reading the book, but only emilytheslayer, I think, heard the name of the publisher at whom I snarked.
Sunday:
Future of magazines 1: Print
Future of magazines 2: Online: These panels were back-to-back, and placed in way too small a room (why the hell they weren't in one of the Salon rooms is beyond me). I know that ckd took good notes, so expect actual quotes and stuff from him. As for me, I enjoyed the discussion, got some useful information, found some snarkworthy moments, and had fun.
Broad Universe Reading: The second reading I attended featuring shadesong! It was another huge group, but the stuff read was all wonderful, and I want to track much of it down.
Children's F&SF Coffeeklatch: This was a coffeeklatch organized by Tui and Kari Sutherland. The former writes YA books, used to edit them, and is one of the four people writing the Warriors series (and lives in Watertown!), and the latter is an editor at Harpercollins. The group consisted of fans and pros, but we all snarked equally at Twilight. Lots of discussions of book packaging groups, cutting-edge stuff, and, of course, Hunger Games :-)
I'll post a second post with discussion of the people and social elements of the con later, but I wanted to get this stuff down before I got caught up in work this week. |
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| Recently on Offworld: driving bear sims, gallery hung Halo 3, @petermolyneux2 |
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| 06:37am 13/07/2009 |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/XAWCZTGg46E/recently-on-offworld-63.html  Recently on Offworld we got a number of indie surprises, as our early Gimme Indie Game featured favorite Enviro-Bear 2000: Operation: Hibernation made a sudden appearance on iPhone as Enviro-Bear 2010 (above). Inarguably the best game about bears driving cars (prove us wrong!), it's an even better game on the iPhone than the PC original, and quickly became both a weekend favorite, and an immediate viral hit.
We also saw Saelee Oh and Anna Anthropy's artXgame Octopounce -- the best of the games originally released for Giant Robot's Game Over/Continue show -- released for free, and were able to watch the entire hour-long meeting between Passage creator Jason Rohrer and design vet Chris Crawford for German TV program Into the Night With.
Elsewhere, Nintendo announced plans to make its early LCD Game & Watch games available as handheld DSiWare downloadables, Valve released a new look at the rainy days of Left 4 Dead 2, Capcom brought Street Fighter II CE to your web browser, and Bungie turned your best Halo 3 screenshots into canvas-printed fine art.
Finally, we got a sneak peek at all the Ghostbusters appearing in LittleBigPlanet, found our new favorite fake-twitter-follow poking gentle fun at Natal and Milo at @petermolyneux2, and our themed 'one shots' for the day: the ESRB's impossible task at rating Scribblenauts (with imagined steak/baby/lion violence), and Scribblenauts-themed Street Fighters.
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| Guess That Yarn!Chester Scene (#6) & General Y!C Updates |
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| 07:12am 13/07/2009 |
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I guess Friday's scene was too basic of an homage as no one bothered to guess that it was our (mine and spade's) take on "Heart." (What was most scary about that werewolf was how anatomically correct it seemed to be beneath its too tight molded-on shorts. Yikes.)
Today's scene should be fun, but also easy:
As for the state-of-the-Yarn!Chesters (versions 2.0), I'm just trying to finish up ami!Bobby and then this set will be finished. Bobby's hat is a total pain in the ass. The front and bill was far easier this time, but the mesh part was just as difficult. (It has to do with using very small crochet thread and a hook that's probably larger than one ought, but I was, y'know, trying to make it look meshy.) Anyway, the hat is in pieces but finished. All that's left for ami!Bobby 2.0 (who looks as identical to 1.0 as possible) is his hair (including beard), his eyes, and his apron. He already has his vest.
I took a bit of time off from making ami!Bobby, though. Between the travel (on Saturday and before) and the teaching, it's amazing how much less time I have for, y'know, sitting around crocheting. Also, I've been sucked into playing Puzzle Pirates a lot. And doing that necessitated a wrist pad for using the mouse, so naturally I knit one of those last night. (It's totally unrelated to SPN but I'm pleased with it because I knit together an organic cotton I had along with the first skein of cotton I ever spun. The stuff I spun is pretty terrible (cotton is really hard to spin) and really thin, so not much use on its own. But with the nice thick commercial stuff, it turned into a nice blend, the pale pastels of my yarn peeking through the white & oatmeal of the undyed organic.) Anyway, I hope to finish ami!Bobby in the next day or so.
Then I will probably make yet another set of ami!Sam and ami!Dean. THEN I will finally move on to making Azazel and Mary.
Oh! But I realized that I have a tiny doll-stand (it came with my random free Big Fish fish) which using will help in posing scenes and such. Just ... y'know ... as soon as I figure out more scenes to photograph. :)
In other fannish news, I returned to reading Bone Key while at the coffee shop yesterday. Poor A. was with me and had to suffer through the indignities I suffered through. It is... not a good book. I'm not sure yet when I'll start posting chapter-reviews, but soon. (I'm through 6 chapters. I'd like to have a little more of a buffer, though, before I start posting, as I'd like to post daily.) I have eeeenteresting information about Mr DeCandido and Nevermore, which I found out while in VA, but I shall wait to post it 'til I begin the review of Bone Key.
That's all from the Yarn!Chesters today. Have fun with today's scene, and join us tomorrow for the next one. |
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| Papadopolis? |
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| 01:24pm 13/07/2009 |
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http://www.adampknave.com/2009/07/13/papadopolis/ http://www.adampknave.com/?p=2922 So. Emmanuel Lewis. Star of stage and screen. Making the most of your life with dignity and a sense of cool. Whether you’ve plied your acting skills in such diverse shows as … Webster or … that one episode of Moesha you did, or that time you were on The New Adventures of Mother Goose or … wait no that was about it. Uhm, or those fine moments when you were just yourself for a whole lot of VH-1 specials, Emmanuel, you’ve been … well, something that isn’t Gary Coleman. Emmanuel we salute you!
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This entry originated at adampknave.com. So. Emmanuel Lewis. Star of stage and screen. Making the most of your life with dignity and a sense of cool. Whether you’ve plied your acting skills in such diverse shows as … Webster or … that one episode of Moesha you did, or that time you were on The New Adventures of Mother Goose or … wait no that was about it. Uhm, or those fine moments when you were just yourself for a whole lot of VH-1 specials, Emmanuel, you’ve been … well, something that isn’t Gary Coleman. Emmanuel we salute you!
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| Fairyland Chapter Five |
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| 09:14am 13/07/2009 |
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The new Fairyland chapter is up!
Chapter Five: The House Without Warning
As the two of them travel along, I shall take a moment’s pause, as is my right. For it deserves remarking that if one is to obtain a monstrous companion, a Wyvern—or a Wyverary—is really a top-notch choice. Firstly, they rarely tire, and their gait is remarkably even, considering the poultry-like disposition of their feet. Secondly, when they do tire, they snore, and no ravening bandit would dare to come near. Thirdly, being French in origin, they have highly refined tastes and are unlikely to seek out unsavory things to eat, such as knights’ gallbladders or maidens’ bones. They much prefer a vat or two of truffles, a flock of geese, and a lake of wine, and they will certainly share. Lastly, their mating seasons are brief and infrequent, and the chances of experiencing one of them is so small as to be beyond the notice of any native guidebook, or indeed the concern of any small girl with brown hair who might be utterly innocent of such things. Truly, it hardly bears mentioning.
There is also a lovely new necklace from qotcpcf in the Fairyland Museum.
Please do read--some of you have said you didn't want to read without donating. That's not how it works! It's up for free, for everyone to read, whether they donate or not. Obviously, donations are awesome and without them there would be no Fairyland. But the whole model is that donations from a portion of the readership pays for the story for all. Please read it, even if you never, ever donate. If you can, throw a few dollars in. If you can't, or aren't inclined, just sit back and come to Fairyland with me. We'll have such a time, I promise.
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| 08:42am 13/07/2009 |
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Recorded it off of Sci-Fi (and yeah, I've go intention of using another name for this network). Caught it on Tivo last week. It's basically Fringe Lite meets Special Unit 2, but that's okay, so far. It's basically a fun sci-fi adventure show, with good cast chemistry, and that's enough to keep me watching for a few weeks to see how it turns out. And Saul Rubinek is wonderful and steals every scene he's in.
A few casting items of note:
It's got Sarah/Juliet from Season 2 of Slings and Arrows in the lead!
(Incidentally, at $30 for all three seasons, there's no excuse for not owning Slings and Arrows, and it's simply one of the best shows ever to air.)
And CCH Pounder is, for all intents and purposes, playing Amanda Waller again!
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| 03:15pm 13/07/2009 |
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- но вы же можете попросить кого-то из своих....
- мне нужна нервная система на продажу а не на вынос
- ой, ты такая бледненькая. а может тебе анализ крови на гемоглобин сделать?
- доктор. я буду гораздо здоровее если в восемь утра вместо того чтобы не то что не жравши а даже не хлебнув кофе тащиться в центр города по всем пробкам, тупо посплю. но спасибо.
- я не развожу панику!
- ага, ты ее концентрируешь. |
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| The Monday Morning Video #10: "A Tribute to Space" |
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| 06:03am 13/07/2009 |
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This is the Monday Morning Video, tenth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
This morning the music is "Vertigo" by U2, and it was recorded loud so adjust your volume before you start, and the theme of the video is "A Tribute to Space", to all the amazing things we used to do, and could choose to do again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4jD9zsUA7w |
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| 05:32am 13/07/2009 |
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something's wrong, and it's not sugar issues; I know what those feel like. Or maybe this is actually what they feel like under different circumstances. I have no idea. My brain is currently telling my body that we have vertigo (which I have occasionally, and sometimes induced during my 20s. My body is well aware that we do not have vertigo (which is to say, normally when I have vertigo, I feel it all through my body; unlike sugar crash issues and dizziness from pre-seizure stuff, which is brain only). This translates to my brain ramping things up, "NO BY GOD WE HAVE VERTIGO, LET ME TELL YOU AGAIN," as my body scoffs. The end result is a really *weird* sensation in my skull, like my brain has just decided to perceive that it's spinning regardless what my body wants to believe, even as my body says, "Hey, brain, you're losing it."
All of it is keeping me from sleeping. :-P |
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