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greygirlbeastChilly. Sort of sunny. Sort of cloudy. We're being promised low sixties in the days to come, and I sit impatiently with fingers crossed. Toes. Fingers and toes crossed. All the toes that I can manage to cross. My toes used to be much more nimble.
Yesterday, I wrote 1,313 words on the story for Dark Horse. I'll give you the details as soon as I can. Meanwhile, revel in the mystique of cloak-and-dagger innuendo. But yeah, a good writing day, despite one of my very rare headaches, one so bad it kept me in bed most of the evening.
There was a lot of email yesterday. I've got a mountain of reprints forthcoming in various anthologies. I ought to post a list of them. But not today.
"I just like watching women with bows. It's sexy. No, the horsehair sort. Not the ones with arrows."
Sometimes, context only bogs us down.
I saw a great deal more photos yesterday from the Harvard shoot last Saturday. Amazing to see so many photos of me an like...no, love...more than half of them. Plus there are a couple of me and Spooky together that I'm going to ask![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kylecassidy if I can post here. Through some odd trick of happenstance, there are virtually no photographs of Kathryn and I together, and certainly none this good.
We have a Rift guild now, finally. If you're interested in joining, we're on the Shadefallen shard, and the guilds is Eyes of the Faceless Man. Defiant, of course. Just send me a tell (try Selwyn, Nilleshna, or Indus), and I'll add you to the roster. We have no guild vault yet, because Rift guilds do not yet have vaults. Concerns over security that have yet to be ironed out. It's become apparent that the game is essentially in live beta. But it still rocks my socks, especially with the graphics set to ultra. Anyway, we're going to be a sort of rp guild (Shadefallen is an rp shard), with rp that concentrates more on the characters and their lives in Telara, than trying to work in the questing and rifts and stuff. That you do on your own.
From the bed last night, bored and in agony, I watched a panoply of weird eighties shit. First, Demi Moore in The Seventh Sign (1988), an awful, awful turd of a biblical horror movie. I'd actually thought we were watching The First Power (1990), but realized about halfway through there was no Lou Diamond Phillips anywhere to be found. Of course, The First Power is also awful, but in a more enjoyable sort of way, and, besides, I've always had a thing for Jeff Kober. Anyway, we followed the movie with the 1987 pilot for Beauty and the Beast. You know, the television series with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton? I'm so pleased to have lived to see a future where technology allows us to torture ourselves like this. Anyway, I'd never seen Beauty and the Beast. But it's gods awful. The only saving grace is Ron Perlman's makeup. The rest, pure shit. Though, I think maybe I've found where at least some of this PR nonsense began.
Also, why are novels today generally and on average so very much longer than older novels? One word: computers. More is "written," because it's so much easier with a word-processing program than a typewriter.** Easier for writers, editors, publishers, everyone. And the reader gets the illusion of getting more for their money (id est, thicker books). This trend will only get worse with ebooks.
The March issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology arrived yesterday.
And I really have nothing else to say. I think I'm killing time. Which is silly, as it dies so well all on is own.
Awake and Regretting It,
Aunt Beast
**Harlan Ellison told me this, over breakfast, in 1995, but I was a moron and didn't believe him. I had to learn for myself, apparently.
Yesterday, I wrote 1,313 words on the story for Dark Horse. I'll give you the details as soon as I can. Meanwhile, revel in the mystique of cloak-and-dagger innuendo. But yeah, a good writing day, despite one of my very rare headaches, one so bad it kept me in bed most of the evening.
There was a lot of email yesterday. I've got a mountain of reprints forthcoming in various anthologies. I ought to post a list of them. But not today.
"I just like watching women with bows. It's sexy. No, the horsehair sort. Not the ones with arrows."
Sometimes, context only bogs us down.
I saw a great deal more photos yesterday from the Harvard shoot last Saturday. Amazing to see so many photos of me an like...no, love...more than half of them. Plus there are a couple of me and Spooky together that I'm going to ask
kylecassidy if I can post here. Through some odd trick of happenstance, there are virtually no photographs of Kathryn and I together, and certainly none this good.We have a Rift guild now, finally. If you're interested in joining, we're on the Shadefallen shard, and the guilds is Eyes of the Faceless Man. Defiant, of course. Just send me a tell (try Selwyn, Nilleshna, or Indus), and I'll add you to the roster. We have no guild vault yet, because Rift guilds do not yet have vaults. Concerns over security that have yet to be ironed out. It's become apparent that the game is essentially in live beta. But it still rocks my socks, especially with the graphics set to ultra. Anyway, we're going to be a sort of rp guild (Shadefallen is an rp shard), with rp that concentrates more on the characters and their lives in Telara, than trying to work in the questing and rifts and stuff. That you do on your own.
From the bed last night, bored and in agony, I watched a panoply of weird eighties shit. First, Demi Moore in The Seventh Sign (1988), an awful, awful turd of a biblical horror movie. I'd actually thought we were watching The First Power (1990), but realized about halfway through there was no Lou Diamond Phillips anywhere to be found. Of course, The First Power is also awful, but in a more enjoyable sort of way, and, besides, I've always had a thing for Jeff Kober. Anyway, we followed the movie with the 1987 pilot for Beauty and the Beast. You know, the television series with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton? I'm so pleased to have lived to see a future where technology allows us to torture ourselves like this. Anyway, I'd never seen Beauty and the Beast. But it's gods awful. The only saving grace is Ron Perlman's makeup. The rest, pure shit. Though, I think maybe I've found where at least some of this PR nonsense began.
Also, why are novels today generally and on average so very much longer than older novels? One word: computers. More is "written," because it's so much easier with a word-processing program than a typewriter.** Easier for writers, editors, publishers, everyone. And the reader gets the illusion of getting more for their money (id est, thicker books). This trend will only get worse with ebooks.
The March issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology arrived yesterday.
And I really have nothing else to say. I think I'm killing time. Which is silly, as it dies so well all on is own.
Awake and Regretting It,
Aunt Beast
**Harlan Ellison told me this, over breakfast, in 1995, but I was a moron and didn't believe him. I had to learn for myself, apparently.
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Date: 2011-04-08 04:56 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, I wish I remembered enough about the Eighties Beauty and the Beast to know if it got significantly better. Likely someone will chime in to defend it (though no fans are likely to applaud how the show wrote out Linda Hamilton's character; that made a lot of people mad).
Looking forward to seeing more of
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Date: 2011-04-08 04:59 pm (UTC)(though no fans are likely to applaud how the show wrote out Linda Hamilton's character; that made a lot of people mad).
I had no idea that happened. I thought their affair was the whole point. Likely, she asked for more money (I would have).
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Date: 2011-04-08 07:30 pm (UTC)To maybe make up for that a bit, have some Hello Watchmen (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/04/06/hello-watchmen-pics/).
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Date: 2011-04-08 08:29 pm (UTC)I think she probably just wanted out of that crap-ass show.
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Date: 2011-04-09 06:54 am (UTC)Subject-changing!:
Also, why are novels today generally and on average so very much longer than older novels? One word: computers. More is "written," because it's so much easier with a word-processing program than a typewriter.** Easier for writers, editors, publishers, everyone. And the reader gets the illusion of getting more for their money (id est, thicker books). This trend will only get worse with ebooks.
Weird to say this, but maybe now we hope for device-use eye-strain to possibly counteract that. (Yes, I can be perverse!)
**Harlan Ellison told me this, over breakfast, in 1995, but I was a moron and didn't believe him. I had to learn for myself, apparently.
You do still lead a cool life, though. (Edibles with Ellison! Random food-and-Harlan thought: I love that when he got limited to two burgers a year in the late 90s, he tried to make sure one of those was a McMenamin's burger up here in Portland. Another benefit of his working with Dark Horse at the time...) And I do admire how committed he is to the typewriter. I've seen Dreams With Sharp Teeth; I've seen his equipment.
But remember, he can be wrong. (Like you've said about The Thing.)
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Date: 2011-04-09 02:40 pm (UTC)But remember, he can be wrong. (Like you've said about The Thing.)
Even I have been wrong.
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Date: 2011-04-08 04:58 pm (UTC)Also, I had the most vivid dream about you and Kathryn last night. Seriously, it was... weird. I mean, the dream was pretty ordinary, but it's how real it seemed that is the strange part. I was in a taxi with you both and we had a bottle of something strong (I'm not sure what). We were talking and talking, and the taxi kept driving and driving. There was a lot of rain hitting the windows, so I have no idea where we were.
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Date: 2011-04-08 05:00 pm (UTC)we had a bottle of something strong (I'm not sure what)
Sounds like us.
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Date: 2011-04-08 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-08 05:29 pm (UTC)I'm glad you like the photos, and I'm looking forward to doing something with you tomorrow night! I'll make it good.
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Date: 2011-04-08 05:41 pm (UTC)I'm glad you like the photos, and I'm looking forward to doing something with you tomorrow night! I'll make it good.
Excellent.
That title makes me sad.
Well, it's from a very sad and beautiful and creepy song. Poignant might be the best word.
Beauty and the Beast
Date: 2011-04-08 05:34 pm (UTC)I remember it from the time, not with fondness.
Re: Beauty and the Beast
Date: 2011-04-08 05:41 pm (UTC)Get the TARDIS Aunt Beast; we've got a crap sub-genre to kill off.
I think that might be TARDIS abuse. I'll check.
Re: Beauty and the Beast
Date: 2011-04-08 06:34 pm (UTC)" women with bows"?
The Book Thief's very good so far.
Re: Beauty and the Beast
Date: 2011-04-08 06:52 pm (UTC)" women with bows"?
Violins, fiddles, cellos, violas, etc.
Re: Beauty and the Beast
Date: 2011-04-08 07:16 pm (UTC)Re: Beauty and the Beast
Date: 2011-04-08 08:28 pm (UTC)The quote came from me.
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Date: 2011-04-08 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-08 06:03 pm (UTC)my thing for jeff kober began when i first saw him on CHINA BEACH.
Yep.
...new Ladytron vid
Date: 2011-04-08 11:25 pm (UTC)Re: ...new Ladytron vid
Date: 2011-04-09 02:22 am (UTC)very CRK I think
I agree. Nice.
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Date: 2011-04-08 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-09 02:17 am (UTC)Well, he did a stint in Stargate, I think.
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Date: 2011-04-08 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-09 02:17 am (UTC)Oh. Fuck. No.
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Date: 2011-04-09 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-09 04:50 am (UTC)I did some work for White Wolf. Fortunately, it had nothing to do with that series.
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Date: 2011-04-09 01:18 am (UTC)"Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock."
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Date: 2011-04-09 02:18 am (UTC)What is that from? It reminds me of Harvey.
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Date: 2011-04-09 02:27 am (UTC)I hope it's one of the few lines I can quote from memory from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, because if it's not, I'll be very sad.
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Date: 2011-04-09 04:49 am (UTC)I hope it's one of the few lines I can quote from memory from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, because if it's not, I'll be very sad.
Ohhhhhhhh!
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Date: 2011-04-09 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-09 06:41 am (UTC)The satisfaction of sheer murder is nothing to apologize for, even directed at abstractions.
Thing is, me and time...it's complicated.
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Date: 2011-04-09 06:52 am (UTC)