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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
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| Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
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6:20 pm - I Will Regret This In About Ten Minutes
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I've been negligent toward LJ.
Time to overcorrect.
Here's the deal. I've managed to average a novel a year for the last, oh, fifteen years. I like being able to look at each one and say, "So that's what I did in 20XX." Problem: this year I spent all my time on short stories, so I don't have a novel for 2009.
Solution: I have the sequel to Hench sitting around mostly-finished.
Problem: I am so, so lazy. Also, it's already December.
Solution: I am such a sucker for attention.
SO. In order to make myself finish Hench 2 by the end of 2009--and to make myself care about it--I'm declaring today Day One of the HENCH THE HALLS ADVENT CALENDAR. One chapter a day until Christmas. (And I've only got it written through the winter solstice, so that'll be fun right at the end there.) Surely that's enough to light a fire under me--right?
Plus it will get me back in the habit of posting. Sorry about that. :/
DON'T PANIC. I won't be cluttering up your flist unless you actually want me to: after today the story will be filtered. If you're already on the Hench filter, you'll see it; if not, you won't; if you want to be on it but aren't, just say "Yo." If you're on the filter but want out, say something crueler, and I'll get the hint.
By declaring my intent I am dooming myself to a kind of second NaNo. IT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME.
Ready?
Awesome.
( Hench Undercover: Chapter 1 )
**FYI: I was calling Shawn Groban "Mark" in the last book. Thinking of changing it to "Eddie". Poor guy can't hang on to a tag for more than six months....
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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009
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9:47 pm - Writer's Block: Get everything you care about, all in one place.
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I'm not sure I understand the question. It's not like the Internet is inherently disorganized. "Oh my gosh! I want to read my old Twitter posts but they could be anywhere!" My Livejournal friends are all on my Livejournal friends feed. Every Fark article is on Fark. The snozzberries taste like snozzberries! And my browser has this amazing feature called "bookmarks" so that when I find something I like, I can get there again with one click. The future is now.
I suspect that, like its last question, Yahoo! thinks we are neophytes stumbling through a dark and non-Euclidian cyberscape where every square inch of air is composed of a different gas and websites come rising up at us from all angles like crazed shadows, but that is not how the Internet works: everywhere I go, I get there by the clean, brightly-lit street of a hyperlink from a person or site I already trust. It's linear. I can get to webcomic X via webcomic Y via webcomic Z. I also suspect that Yahoo! wants to use this as some kind of lead-in to tout its customizable homepage, a godforsaken mess of linkage snarled in ads and irrelevancy. Which, see above, is the way it thinks the Internet is already.
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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8:06 am
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| Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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10:50 pm - Writer's Block: Staying In-the-Know
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Well this might be the laziest Writer's Block question ever. I put the Internet on my head and dance in it and feed it raw hamburger and my gosh, how do you think I use the Internet to stay informed?? How many different answers do you think you're going to get? Anyway, I notice this is sponsored by Yahoo, so here's my answer: with Google, because the Yahoo search engine is finger-lickin' bad.
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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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4:58 pm - Henry the AWESOME I Think You Mean
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| Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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8:43 am - Quartet of Weird
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I really need to go through with that "meat laying around" tag, because Canada has found another human foot on its beaches. Yes, it's in British Columbia. Yes, it's a right foot. I don't know, the more they say "the feet detach by a natural process" the less I believe it.
Dillsburg, PA will see Coatesville, PA's forty-four arsons and raise it 600 earthquakes. Who's tracking the ill omens/signs of the apocalypse these days? Because somebody should take a look a this.
Meanwhile Australia is offering a million-dollar reward for the capture of a man who killed a vampire in 2003. Be careful out there, monster hunters. Those are high stakes.
(Da ha, did I make a "stakes" joke in a vampire story? I did! Hooray!)
Also, if you were going to participate in the Twitter seance on Halloween for some reason, they've chosen the lineup. I am not sure what Shakespeare's ghost will think of being contacted through Twitter, I think it will just confuse him.
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| Sunday, October 25th, 2009
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11:22 am - PSA
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| Saturday, October 24th, 2009
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9:25 pm - Woman of Mystery
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I suppose this is a counterpoint to the meme I posted the other day, but I am powerful bored, so I'm posting it anyway. Even if nobody cares enough to reply it'll keep my fingers busy for the time it takes to type the introduction. Oops, I'm done. Bored again.
The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.
Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.
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| Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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10:20 am - I Just Invented a Meme
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Tell me one thing about yourself that you want to be sure I know. It can be as basic as age, as Internet-relevant as fandom, as Internet-irrelevant as height, as personal as a chronic illness, as distinctive as your greatest achievement. If there's one thing you want me to think of when I see your username, put it here.
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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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12:37 pm - Still Alive
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(Do you all have the Jonathan Coulton song stuck in your head now? No? Okay, go hit up YouTube. You'll thank me.)
I am in fact still alive. I do not in fact have the Internet at my house yet. This is inexplicable; literally none of the dozen people I have spoken to at the phone company can explick it. But they say it's coming. They say so many things.
I am more or less settled in, if not unpacked. I have learned to heat the house, which is increasingly important. I am getting my mail. My living room doesn't smell like dogs anymore!
I don't even have any weird news to post. But I did take a walk down the block to look at the haunted house, and yeah, it is pretty creepy-looking from the outside. (You should see mine! Warped window glass and unexpected mirrors and a bizarre little closet in the hallway and a horrifying basement door and scratches on the insides of all the doors, it's awesome!)
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| Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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7:39 pm - Mad World
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| Thursday, October 15th, 2009
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7:36 pm - Writer's Block: 1, 2, 3, 4, Journaling can cool earth's core!
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I wasn't going to answer this one until I noticed the automated subject line. "Cool earth's core?" Why would I want to do that? As I recall, it's pretty useful having it good and hot down there. Thanks, Writer's Block, you lose again.
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| Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
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10:14 pm - Sorry, It's Enormous
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Good gosh. That'll teach me to take quizzes. I thought I put myself down as female, at least...?
You are The Devil
Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession
The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.
Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
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4:42 pm - Ahead of My Time
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| Monday, October 12th, 2009
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12:55 pm - Ghost Tour Follow-Up
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Not only did I manage to make the ghost walk on Friday, I took the ghost bus tour on Saturday and listened to some local ghost stories in the meantime. That's efficiency: two days and all the spooks of note in the county. Like most towns, this place is haunted largely by bad wiring and old construction, but there were a couple of things that made my ears perk up: a "black blur like smoke" that chases people, a sea monster in the creek that howled at night, and a suicide down the block from me. I also found out the rough location of the cemetery that was uprooted and not quite cleared out to build housing (down the block from me in the other direction) and heard about a lot of rich people. Tons of fun. Very glad I went. Even though it rained on us for an hour and a half.
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| Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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3:50 pm - Downstairs
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| Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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3:18 pm - FYI
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Car Park in Staffordshire Now Susceptible to Witches.
(Not news exactly, but witch bottles are cool.)
GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT. My new town is hosting a local ghost walk next weekend. TWO of them: one walking and one bus, with different stops for each. GUESS WHO IS GOING TO BE GHOST WALKING ALL WEEKEND.
This weekend it's mostly grocery shopping and laying around watching Supernatural, which is okay too.
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| Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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9:42 am - Preparedness
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| Friday, September 25th, 2009
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4:19 pm - A Notable Week
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"My name in Google Alerts" takes a dramatic turn this week, as I was murdered in New Orleans. Unrelatedly, the police shot my dog in Illinois, and a thousand people picketed my high school in Florida. In happier news, my Sondheim revue was well-received, I made four saves to win a shutout soccer game, and I just got a fellowship to the University of Chicago.
This is a great game.
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