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21 August 2008 @ 10:47 am
READING FESTIVAL IN TWO DAYS
I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IN THE WORLD MY TICKET IS
THAT'S ALL! :D
I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IN THE WORLD MY TICKET IS
THAT'S ALL! :D
21 August 2008 @ 04:41 am
Ricky Martin Gay
Originally published at The Other Blog by Pop Tart. Please leave any comments there.
If you have ever seen him prancing around on stage touching himself you might get the impression Ricky Martin is gay. If you have ever heard the pretentious (to midwestern ears) accent you might think Ricky Martin is gay. If you look at the fact he has through a surrogate had twin boys you might think he is gay. if you are obsessed with the notion that someone famous might be gay, then Ricky Martin might be gay. Here is the thing though, it doesn’t fucking matter if Ricky Martin is gay!
Is he sticking his dick in your mouth? Is he sticking in your ass? If you are concerned whether Ricky Martin is gay you probably speak out your ass enough for one of those questions to be redundant. So what if he likes men? If you like his music or that of any other potentially gay man Clay Aiken then does it matter what his sexual preference is?
When you belt out any Queen song do you first ask yourself should I be singing this because Freddy Mercury was gay? Do you feel the need to check your straightness when you catch yourself humming along to something by Elton John? Does listening to Hüsker Dü change how you feel about the opposite sex? Does listening to REM make you want to watch hot man love fan vids? The answer is, of course not.
If you like Rick Martin’s music it doesn’t matter if he is gay. if you like to look at Ricky Martin does it matter if he is gay since the chances of you having sex with him is next to nothing which ever way you swing. If you don’t like his music, can’t stand the sight of him, or aren’t gay yourself why are you concerned whether Ricky Martin is gay?
Give it a rest!
21 August 2008 @ 12:40 am
Comic Reviews for 8/20/08
I've got a bunch of reviews for comics I've read today, so if you don't care about what I thought, then I'll spare you by putting it behind an lj-cut, but if you're interested, then feel free to do the clicky-clicky. I tried to keep it spoiler-free, but what I might think isn't a spoiler might be a spoiler for you, so read at your own risk.
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21 August 2008 @ 04:24 pm
Bah
Words for today: 1,821
Total words for 2008: 374,194
Very ordinary day today, but it couldn’t be helped. Real life tends to get in the way, especially when you have leaking pipes. Spent a chunk of the afternoon waiting for the plumber, and another chunk with him here.
Still feeling a general lack of inspiration. Meh.
[cross-posted from my website]20 August 2008 @ 11:59 pm
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-20
- Augh! My husband is phoneless. How did we ever live in a time when people were not reachable 24/7? #
- @donmelton Get that man his new iPhone!!! #
- I burned my back really, really badly yesterday. Ouch. #
- @nsmonkeygirl Oh no! Waaaah!! #
- @jeffsoesbe Why scary and frightening? Are they knifing one another? #
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Originally published at Nobody Knows Anything. You can comment here or there.
21 August 2008 @ 09:08 am
Writer's Block: Your Favorite Series: One Last Go Round
If you could pick any TV show that has been off the air to come back for one more season, which show would you pick and why? Submitted by |
The 4400.
I want to know the end of the story. I want to know
It was an amazing show and still my favorite.
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And now we've established I'm a sad sad little girl, I'm going to finish my 30k Jordan/Shawn slash fanfiction. Because I can and I've only got 3 days left.
20 August 2008 @ 11:26 pm
Flights of fancy
Well, I figure our family and friends might as well hear it here first: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
lolcatz and I finally booked holiday flights back to Michigan. Or rather, we booked pre-holiday flights since we're going to be there and then back to Seattle before Christmas. Considering it was a savings of $200 per ticket, I think it's safe to say that we'll just have to bring the holiday cheer with us instead of relying on some date on the calendar.
But man, I tell you. Even getting that outlier flight wasn't easy. Prices are crazy! I've been checking them diligently for weeks now, running different dates and airports. There are a few optimal airports in the hinterlands and then some farther-out major airports which occasionally have better rates. I've checked them all, sometimes even combining them for different outgoing and incoming flights. No luck. Today, for whatever reason, all the airlines that service those backwoods airports started lowering prices for mid-December. It was fascinating, watching the rates shift within the space of an hour. An optimal scenario finally appeared, and we jumped on it.
We'll be back in the Motherland for a week, which seems like a long time...but, anyone who's ever traveled as a couple knows it isn't. Our hometowns are an hour apart, which means the guy and I will spend half our week with one family and half with the other. Counting flight days, that's really about three days each. Not a lot of time. Throw visiting friends and extended family into the mix...yikes! It gets tough. Fortunately, our families are cool enough to be able to roll with this. I have friends whose families have gotten hostile over the timeshare thing, which really sucks because traveling is hard enough.
But, I'm excited to have a white Christmas...er, pre-Christmas or whatever. Probably the idealized version from my childhood won't pan out, but here's to hoping for snow that's pretty on trees and houses...and well-plowed off the roads.
lolcatz and I finally booked holiday flights back to Michigan. Or rather, we booked pre-holiday flights since we're going to be there and then back to Seattle before Christmas. Considering it was a savings of $200 per ticket, I think it's safe to say that we'll just have to bring the holiday cheer with us instead of relying on some date on the calendar.But man, I tell you. Even getting that outlier flight wasn't easy. Prices are crazy! I've been checking them diligently for weeks now, running different dates and airports. There are a few optimal airports in the hinterlands and then some farther-out major airports which occasionally have better rates. I've checked them all, sometimes even combining them for different outgoing and incoming flights. No luck. Today, for whatever reason, all the airlines that service those backwoods airports started lowering prices for mid-December. It was fascinating, watching the rates shift within the space of an hour. An optimal scenario finally appeared, and we jumped on it.
We'll be back in the Motherland for a week, which seems like a long time...but, anyone who's ever traveled as a couple knows it isn't. Our hometowns are an hour apart, which means the guy and I will spend half our week with one family and half with the other. Counting flight days, that's really about three days each. Not a lot of time. Throw visiting friends and extended family into the mix...yikes! It gets tough. Fortunately, our families are cool enough to be able to roll with this. I have friends whose families have gotten hostile over the timeshare thing, which really sucks because traveling is hard enough.
But, I'm excited to have a white Christmas...er, pre-Christmas or whatever. Probably the idealized version from my childhood won't pan out, but here's to hoping for snow that's pretty on trees and houses...and well-plowed off the roads.
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satisfied21 August 2008 @ 08:23 am
Oh My God !²
Meilleure façon de commencer la journée ?
Avec un email de Chris Baty. Ce type est extra nice et en plus il adore Paris qu'il a habité quelques mois ! Sérieux !!
Ensuite on apprend que SGA va se finir en janvier, ce qui ne me rend pas si triste. Par contre, si sci-fi recommence un troisième show dans la série des stargate pour le remplacer, je crains le pire. Parce qu'ils ont fait le coup avec BSG, et ça va faire très 'chaîne sans imagination aucune qui continue à gratter dans le fond de soupe qui reste plutôt que d'innover'.
Mais bon on verra.
Je vais aller relire le mail de Chris Baty, l'imprimer et l'accrocher au-dessus de mon litdans un cadre plein de p'tits coeurs rose bonbon, histoire d'être en forme toute la journée. Et un peu trop excitée pour ne pas sauter dans tous les sens.
Il en faut peu pour me mettre dans cet état, n'est-ce pas ?^^
Avec un email de Chris Baty. Ce type est extra nice et en plus il adore Paris qu'il a habité quelques mois ! Sérieux !!
Ensuite on apprend que SGA va se finir en janvier, ce qui ne me rend pas si triste. Par contre, si sci-fi recommence un troisième show dans la série des stargate pour le remplacer, je crains le pire. Parce qu'ils ont fait le coup avec BSG, et ça va faire très 'chaîne sans imagination aucune qui continue à gratter dans le fond de soupe qui reste plutôt que d'innover'.
Mais bon on verra.
Je vais aller relire le mail de Chris Baty, l'imprimer et l'accrocher au-dessus de mon lit
Il en faut peu pour me mettre dans cet état, n'est-ce pas ?^^
21 August 2008 @ 01:29 am
Another freeking to-do list
So, I really like lists. This is my third to-do list >.> Obviously, I either have way too much to do or I don't have enough.
The theme of this is embroidery, like most of my last couple posts.
1. Finish Amy's freaking birthday present! It's not that hard!
2. Start working on baby bibs. This might be a little more difficult :(
3. Start working on Savin's thingy-mcdealypants
Ideas!
Amy's birthday gift is half-way done, so I don't need ideas for that one. I will also be working on a three frogs pattern for Amy on top of this, but that comes after the baby gifts and Savin's quote thing.
The baby gift has been changed from a baby blanket to a series of bibs. Three for three frogs, one with a lion and a palm tree, one or two Mickey Mouse patterns from a book I'm waiting for, and a few misc. I might have to buy more patterns if I can't find any. Oh noes.
I plan on teaching myself a satin stitch so I might practice that while working on Savin's quote thing. I have a Satin stitch alphabet in one of my sampler books, which is nice. I actually want to try silk thread with this so I'll price check that next time I go to JoAnn's. I also need a differently sized needle than what I use so I can get all of the threads I need. I can also try to get a higher count aida cloth to make the satin stitch look better?
Technical shit:
Unfortunately, all of the things crossed off of my original list aren't completed items but the no longer necessary items. -twiddles thumbs- I should be in bed.
The theme of this is embroidery, like most of my last couple posts.
1. Finish Amy's freaking birthday present! It's not that hard!
2. Start working on baby bibs. This might be a little more difficult :(
3. Start working on Savin's thingy-mcdealypants
Ideas!
Amy's birthday gift is half-way done, so I don't need ideas for that one. I will also be working on a three frogs pattern for Amy on top of this, but that comes after the baby gifts and Savin's quote thing.
The baby gift has been changed from a baby blanket to a series of bibs. Three for three frogs, one with a lion and a palm tree, one or two Mickey Mouse patterns from a book I'm waiting for, and a few misc. I might have to buy more patterns if I can't find any. Oh noes.
I plan on teaching myself a satin stitch so I might practice that while working on Savin's quote thing. I have a Satin stitch alphabet in one of my sampler books, which is nice. I actually want to try silk thread with this so I'll price check that next time I go to JoAnn's. I also need a differently sized needle than what I use so I can get all of the threads I need. I can also try to get a higher count aida cloth to make the satin stitch look better?
Technical shit:
Pick up waste canvasPick up fabric, 1yd by 1ydpick up flannel- moar aida cloth, plz?
- moar thread (DMC should be color-safe)
- learn satin stitch
- pick up size 24 embroidery needles
Unfortunately, all of the things crossed off of my original list aren't completed items but the no longer necessary items. -twiddles thumbs- I should be in bed.
21 August 2008 @ 05:25 pm
There be changes afoot
As of today bookbogan is on haitus for TWO MONTHS. I know that's a long time, but I'm getting married on Halloween, and I need to concentrate on that, and my novel and ebook writing.
When I return this blog will take a much more structured form, and I'll be posting more often. It will work like this:
monday: writing post
wednesday: review (book, music, website, whatever)
friday: random and amusing.
In the meantime, you might like to have a look at my new website www.steffgreen.com, There will be a bit of content going up over the next two months (but probably not too much) and in mid/late november it will start getting a lot busier as my first ebooks go live. I'm very proud of what I have so far, as I've managed to teach myself basic html code in an afternoon. Go me! Anyway, have a looksie if you're interested.
21 August 2008 @ 01:10 am
Daily Twitterblat!
21 August 2008 @ 12:00 am
Woohooo!
It is a victory dance up in here, and maybe a little bit of a milestone, too.
Today our editor at Samhain wrote to tell us she really enjoyed our Big Book Of Doom, the one that started this Writing Journey back in October. It's sort of hard to remember that time since contracts for (as of yesterday) 15 books have come in between our first steps and today.
Also that sort of boggles my mind because fifteen is sort of a big number, and once we sign the contract for the book (at the moment known as Crux thanks toymp) that will be sixteen and holy cow, I'd need more than 3 hands to count that high.
Maybe I'm in a bit of shock.
There are three books on sale now, three going on sale in September and three in October. I know we have at least one in November and two in December.
I'm starting to wonder if we're really androids. Except can an android wonder if it's an android? I seem to recall that is bad.
And now I must go soothe Donna, who seems to be having a panic attack of some sort. That would make her probably not an android. The jury is still out on me.
-Bree
Today our editor at Samhain wrote to tell us she really enjoyed our Big Book Of Doom, the one that started this Writing Journey back in October. It's sort of hard to remember that time since contracts for (as of yesterday) 15 books have come in between our first steps and today.
Also that sort of boggles my mind because fifteen is sort of a big number, and once we sign the contract for the book (at the moment known as Crux thanks to
ymp) that will be sixteen and holy cow, I'd need more than 3 hands to count that high.Maybe I'm in a bit of shock.
There are three books on sale now, three going on sale in September and three in October. I know we have at least one in November and two in December.
I'm starting to wonder if we're really androids. Except can an android wonder if it's an android? I seem to recall that is bad.
And now I must go soothe Donna, who seems to be having a panic attack of some sort. That would make her probably not an android. The jury is still out on me.
-Bree
21 August 2008 @ 12:55 am
Of Pigs and Pens. Or something.
I am a little green pig in a pen of pink ones. Or, more precisely, outside the pen of pink pigs, evicted from the farm. I'm not particularly special but people (a) perceive me as different and (b) alienate me. So there you go.
7 more days to go. Cannot wait.
7 more days to go. Cannot wait.
20 August 2008 @ 11:55 pm
I’m Allergic to Our Bedroom
Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.
More specifically (I hope), something in it. Not Sam, happily, but every time I go in there, I’m all stuffed up within a few minutes.
We keep that room closed and have a window a/c unit in there, because the house a/c just doesn’t keep up so well.
The cat is seldom allowed in the room at all, and we don’t have any other pets. There aren’t any plants in the room.
We haven’t been using the air cleaners, because I can only get their filters by mail-order and just didn’t get around to getting new ones. I guess I need to order them and see if that helps.
Bah.
In nicer news, the girl and I went to the nice library today. I had gone through my “to-read” shelf at Good Reads and requested a bunch of books. More of them than I expected came through all at one time, whereupon I learned that they allow a maximum of 75 books to be checked out at once. Whoops! I had to put two back.
I have plenty to read now, though!
20 August 2008 @ 09:08 pm
Secrets (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) [LARGE PRINT] (Hardcover)
I'm currently reading "Secrets" by Lisa Jackson.
Product Description
PIRATE'S GOLD
Maren McClure and Kyle Sterling are enemies in a cutthroat, fast-track industry. He's threatening the company she fought to build; she's endangering his empire. But their instant attraction will raise the stakes from risky … to explosive.
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Ten years ago Andrea Monroe loved politician Jefferson Harmon, and watched helplessly as their relationship was destroyed by his brother's lies. Now they are thrust back into each other's lives, and their hardest challenge will be to trust each other — and resist their long-simmering hunger.
Product Description
PIRATE'S GOLD
Maren McClure and Kyle Sterling are enemies in a cutthroat, fast-track industry. He's threatening the company she fought to build; she's endangering his empire. But their instant attraction will raise the stakes from risky … to explosive.
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Ten years ago Andrea Monroe loved politician Jefferson Harmon, and watched helplessly as their relationship was destroyed by his brother's lies. Now they are thrust back into each other's lives, and their hardest challenge will be to trust each other — and resist their long-simmering hunger.
20 August 2008 @ 11:39 pm
Classic funny.
Current Mood: amused
amusedCurrent Music: Millenium theme
20 August 2008 @ 11:35 pm
Spliced: Part 3 - Chapter 7A
TITLE: Spliced - Part 3, Chapter 7A
AUTHOR:flighty_dreams
WARNINGS: NC-17. slavefic. scifi setting. M/m. some het.
DISCLAIMER: They all belong to me! *insert evil cackle here* I'm just sharing them. *hug*
WORD COUNT: 3,864
SUMMARY: Part 3, Chapter 7 - Alex's musings on the Matt situation.
NOTES: The rest of this chapter should hopefully be up soon. I uhh have to write it still. :S But this had a natural stopping point.
FEEDBACK: Always awesome and amazing.
AUTHOR:
flighty_dreamsWARNINGS: NC-17. slavefic. scifi setting. M/m. some het.
DISCLAIMER: They all belong to me! *insert evil cackle here* I'm just sharing them. *hug*
WORD COUNT: 3,864
SUMMARY: Part 3, Chapter 7 - Alex's musings on the Matt situation.
NOTES: The rest of this chapter should hopefully be up soon. I uhh have to write it still. :S But this had a natural stopping point.
FEEDBACK: Always awesome and amazing.
20 August 2008 @ 08:46 pm
Sewing
I have a month to sew an entire blanket for Angel and Randall's baby shower. Eep! I'm still not done with Amy's birthday gift! And I promised to make something for saintsavin. I don't even have a pattern for baby Marshall, though I do have ideas (the corners bordered in ponies and elephants and a spot with his name)... I also need to find a border.
Meep.
saintsavin. I don't even have a pattern for baby Marshall, though I do have ideas (the corners bordered in ponies and elephants and a spot with his name)... I also need to find a border.Meep.
21 August 2008 @ 01:10 am
Allez, on va dormir !
23337 mots.
Putain. Demain j'attends au moins les 27k. Au moins.
Je suis motivée depuis hier, un truc de folie.
C'estbunny_aka & lilibel. Vous êtes trop bien ! ♥
En attendant, j'vais aller dormir avec du Mcshep.
J'crois que le J/S va n'être que suggéré lourdement. Genre comme dans la série. Parce que c'est ce que je préfère chez eux. Les sous-entendus. Faut voir. Faut que je revois le montage de la fic.
30/32k d'une fic 4400 avec Jordan/Shawn. Je peux le faire. Je peux le faire.
Putain. Demain j'attends au moins les 27k. Au moins.
Je suis motivée depuis hier, un truc de folie.
C'est
bunny_aka & lilibel. Vous êtes trop bien ! ♥En attendant, j'vais aller dormir avec du Mcshep.
J'crois que le J/S va n'être que suggéré lourdement. Genre comme dans la série. Parce que c'est ce que je préfère chez eux. Les sous-entendus. Faut voir. Faut que je revois le montage de la fic.
30/32k d'une fic 4400 avec Jordan/Shawn. Je peux le faire. Je peux le faire.
Current Music: Death Cab For Cutie - Brothers On A Hotel Bed