Sponges, True and Probable

[greygirlbeast]

There's a glacier in the driveway.

Yesterday, I did 1,517 words on Chapter 5. As I said a few days ago on Twitter, I'm at least half serious about an author's note at the beginning, something like, Warning: This books contains lesbians and transsexuals, and they have teh sex— with each other —and they're treated like real people, not freaks, and there are no straight characters, just so the homophobic and transphobic whiners out there might be dissuaded from buying it and so whine a little less.

Spooky and I have decided to delay announcement of the secret project until tomorrow. There are still a few details to which she needs to attend. Which is fine, as more people read the blog on Mondays than on Sundays.

Last night, we got new Fringe, an excellent episode with Christopher Lloyd. And then we watched Po-Chih Leong's The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998; also, unfortunately, known as Immortality). How I managed to overlook this film for thirteen years is beyond me. It only came to my attention a couple of days ago, thanks to a recommendation from tsarina. I liked it quite a lot. Jude Law in a fairly artful and understated British vampire film. Also, it includes the phrase "a species of one," so now I can't claim to be the first to have used it.

On WoW last night, I saw a Draenei girl in a guild named "Awesome Lolly Muffin Men." Very likely the most peculiar guild name I've ever seen. I thought it must be a reference to something pop cultural, but, if so, Google isn't being helpful.

Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Thanks.

And now, I'll leave you with a photo from last night, me and Hubero snuggling to stay warm (foreshortening renders my arm oddly stout):





Photograph Copyright © 2011 by Kathryn A. Pollnac

Comments

[docbrite.livejournal.com]

Re: author's note, I wouldn't, because I'm convinced that for every idiot who whines that they were "tricked" into reading about queer characters, there are one or two readers who wouldn't have picked up the book if they knew about the queer characters in advance, but read it and maybe had their minds opened a little. I've even met a few, and they can be frustrating to deal with ("You wrote about those gay characters just like they were normal people!"), but I like to think I've made a few inroads.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Re: author's note, I wouldn't,

I won't. That was just me blowing off steam.

[prose-lover.livejournal.com]

ah true Poppy.