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Thursday, January 1st, 2037
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12:00 pm - Perpetual Tag Post
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Entertainment: books, movies, videos, writing
Fandoms: BPAL, The Dark Is Rising, Deathly Hallows, Half-Blood Prince, NaNoWriMo, NaNo '07, the Potterverse, ROC, paranormal goings-on, zombies
TV: Fear Itself, Heroes, Lost, Supernatural
Real Life: burns, food, food stamp challenge, radio
Miscellaneous: posts en espanol, great spam, images, long stories, memes
Highlights
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Current BPAL Sale Post
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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2:35 pm - The State of Me
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Today in "my name in Google Alerts": I am a laundress in 19th-century Texas, a bailout protester, a resident of a town with sister cities in France and Italy, the founder of a baby equipment company, the usual tattoo expert and acclaimed dead writer, and engaged to some guy named Marc.
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9:40 am - O.O
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| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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11:28 am - Writer's Block: Fashion Forward
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I performed a thought experiment recently. In it I realized that old people wear mainly more comfortable versions of what they always wore: that's why you see old guys still wearing undershirts and belted slacks, old women in housedresses and pantsuits and sweatshirts. Then I thought about what my generation usually wears and how that will evolve into our wardrobe in forty or fifty years. I envision nursing-home residents in sports jerseys and enormous t-shirts, with jeans that sag (but no longer on purpose). Shirts with babydoll sleeves but not a babydoll waist. Low-rise khakis with bootcut legs. Long-sleeved shirts layered under ironic tees. Livestrong bracelets. Toe rings.
Anyway, I can't answer one of these Writer's Block things without getting cranky at it, so: good heavens, Intel, what do you want us to answer? "Silver space suits"? "Self-drying jackets"? "Nothing"? It's twenty years for crying out loud. My father has a shirt he's been wearing since the sixties. Whatever we're wearing in twenty years, it's gonna look a lot like what we wear now.
Poison ivy has spread. All over palms and inner wrists. Un-awesome.
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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3:27 pm - Rotten
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1:15 pm - Englovened
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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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10:30 am - Writer's Block: Dog Day Afternoon
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Is this a prank? It's shaping up to be the coldest July 4th in American history. I went outside to work on the plant life, and my hands are freezing.
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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11:21 am - Long in the Making
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I called my sister and said, "My printer broke. I have to buy a new printer."
"Whoa whoa whoa," she said. "It must be really bad, if your printer is really dead."
"Well," I said. "I kicked it and a part came off. And then another part came off. And now, uh, the parts won't go back together. I'll take a picture to prove it."
( Cut for images )
After I got back from the store I called her again.
"False alarm. I fixed it."
"What? How?"
"I started fitting stuff together until it stuck."
"You're ridiculous."
"But it still works!"
I printed with it. It still works. I have a leftover piece of plastic that I think used to be part of the paper feed, but it seems to be fine without it. I about want to write the company and thank them for making such a resilient piece of crap. Either that, or complain about it. I mean, I was gonna switch to laser. Stupid undead machine.
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10:36 am - Temptations
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Amazon is having some kind of Sci-Fi Extravaganza or something, which means significant discounts on a lot of DVD collections, and if I don't stop myself I'm going to end up spending a ton of money. Kingdom Hospital and the original Kingdom? The Lost Room? Eureka? Augh.
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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12:48 pm - Working Up
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one astounded by the idea of literal flesh-eating robotics. Strap one of those things to a Roomba, and goodbye mankind.
So now it's official, Michael Jackson is our Elvis. I've heard some "How come everyone likes him again now?" going around, and all I can figure is: he's made the switch from contemporary figure to historical figure. He can no longer be judged by what he is, only what he was, and the was incorporates everything that's been more recently overshadowed. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cleolinda has a really good post up, for the two people on my flist who don't already have her friended.
Is it wrong that I am equally concerned about my company folding and whether my local Rite Aid closes?
So last NaNo I went in with the stated goal to produce, specifically, "Christian horror that doesn't suck." Anybody want to take a read to see whether I succeeded?
Finally: I was reading the LJ archives last night (I got interested in the old HBP review posts for some reason, and kept going) and came across this 2005 gem from cavalorn: On the Comyng of the Frydge, which can't be pimped enough.
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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2:12 pm - Foresight Breakdown
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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4:22 pm - Water Vole?
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| Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
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1:14 pm - From izhilzha
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If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
If you think I mean you, you're probably right. :)
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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8:40 am - Another Conclusion
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| Monday, June 15th, 2009
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5:00 pm - Take Two
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| Saturday, June 13th, 2009
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6:37 pm - On the Western Front
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Quiet day. Quiet, quiet, quiet. Nothing going on here. Okay, my downstairs neighbors went a little nuts around noon, which I assume was leftover celebrating from last night, but that died down quick and since then there hasn't been much of anything. Everybody is nice and quiet. Nobody moving around at all. Boy, is it nice to have a quiet, peaceful day in June.
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| Friday, June 12th, 2009
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11:01 pm - Comic Recc
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12:51 pm - Oh gosh, not again
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11:50 am - Update
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Three more cats killed in Florida, making it a total of 33 and justifying an increase of $2,000 in the reward money, apparently. An Internet dollar says that within a month they'll catch either a weird kid or a disturbed man. Either that or Apophis, the great serpent and enemy of Ra. One of those.
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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9:46 am - Relevant to My Last Post
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