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greygirlbeast0. Comments, please. Prove to me LJ is not dead (again). I'm sick to death of self-fulfilling prophecies. You comment, I'll reply. Cause and effect.
1. Never, ever tell people on Facebook that "A release date has been set for the release on my first studio CD since 1999, which is called LOVEAMOEBA (band of the same name). TBA." Because, while this looks, to me, like a very obvious practical joke, many other people will appear to take it seriously. C'mon, guys. Loveameoba? No. Anyway, apologies. This whole humor thing, this beast has yet to master it in any way as to please anyone but herself.
2. I dozed off sometime after four, and woke at nine. Ayem, that is. If there's a part of me that doesn't hurt, please write my brain a letter to that effect. Er...wait. No, if there's a bit of my anatomy that is not in agony, it needs to send a telegram to my brain. Oh, wait. I mean, it needs to phone home. Oh...shit. I mean, it needs to twat at my brain. Yeah, that's what I mean. Hold on. What year is this?
3. A long phone call with my agent yesterday, at 2 CaST (1 EST), regarding Blood Oranges, ebooks, The Drowning Girl, etc. & etc. The usual. It seemed like we talked for an hour, though I suspect it was more like twenty minutes. Still feels like an hour. Afterwards, I discovered I was still so disgusted with the travesty that is "Sexing the Weird" that I couldn't even think about writing. I went with Spooky while she ran errands, instead. Sometimes, even the bland light of late autumn in Providence is better than the light of this monitor.
4. So, yeah. A Question @ Hand will be posted here tomorrow. All replies will be screened and will be confidential. The ten responses that please me the most will appear in Sirenia Digest #72. Anyone with any last moment ideas should post them here today. You know, like "If a circle of Dante's hell were to be designed especially for me, what would it be like?" Or "If you were to choose me as the test subject for an experiment involving the effects of a genetically designed parasite, what would the organism be, and what effect would it have upon me?" See. That sort of thing.
5. If I cannot put it on my shelf, it's not book. And no, placing a Kindle or a Nook or a whatever on the shelf doesn't count. Call it a data-storage or media delivery device. I have no problem with that. But it's not a book.***
6. Later this week Kathryn will be beginning a new round of eBay auctions (the first in a long time), and we'll be including ONE signed copy of The Drowning Girl ARC. Be the first on your block and all that.
7. Last night we played too much Rift again, but this time with a new guild member,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
opalblack. I dusted off my Eth warrior, Indus, and it was pretty fucking cool tanking for a change. Watchers of the Unseen (Defiant side, Faeblight shard) is always looking for new members, especially those interested in RP.
8. I'm ending the Aunt Beast Book of the Month Club. Results were, at best, mixed. And I think I never recovered from that Carrie Ryan fiasco.
9. The postman just brought Nos. 1 and 2 (Fall 2010 and 2011) of Centipede Press' The Weird Fiction Review. No. 2 includes the first print appearance of my story, "Fish Bride." And, honestly, the Review is a gorgeous thing, more in the fashion of an academic literary journal than a pulp magazine. I'm very impressed. Oh, also, I've sold a poem I wrote last year, "Atlantis," to Strange Horizons. This is the first time I have ever actually sold a poem. Sure, I included "Zelda Fitzgerald" in Tales of Pain and Wonder, but that's different.
Epilogue:
Would you leave me if I told you what I've done?
And would you leave me if I told you what I've become?
~ and ~
You can't choose what stays and what fades away. ~ Florence + the Machine
Anger's Little Petri Dish,
Aunt Beast
*** Please comment on things besides ebooks. Thank you.
1. Never, ever tell people on Facebook that "A release date has been set for the release on my first studio CD since 1999, which is called LOVEAMOEBA (band of the same name). TBA." Because, while this looks, to me, like a very obvious practical joke, many other people will appear to take it seriously. C'mon, guys. Loveameoba? No. Anyway, apologies. This whole humor thing, this beast has yet to master it in any way as to please anyone but herself.
2. I dozed off sometime after four, and woke at nine. Ayem, that is. If there's a part of me that doesn't hurt, please write my brain a letter to that effect. Er...wait. No, if there's a bit of my anatomy that is not in agony, it needs to send a telegram to my brain. Oh, wait. I mean, it needs to phone home. Oh...shit. I mean, it needs to twat at my brain. Yeah, that's what I mean. Hold on. What year is this?
3. A long phone call with my agent yesterday, at 2 CaST (1 EST), regarding Blood Oranges, ebooks, The Drowning Girl, etc. & etc. The usual. It seemed like we talked for an hour, though I suspect it was more like twenty minutes. Still feels like an hour. Afterwards, I discovered I was still so disgusted with the travesty that is "Sexing the Weird" that I couldn't even think about writing. I went with Spooky while she ran errands, instead. Sometimes, even the bland light of late autumn in Providence is better than the light of this monitor.
4. So, yeah. A Question @ Hand will be posted here tomorrow. All replies will be screened and will be confidential. The ten responses that please me the most will appear in Sirenia Digest #72. Anyone with any last moment ideas should post them here today. You know, like "If a circle of Dante's hell were to be designed especially for me, what would it be like?" Or "If you were to choose me as the test subject for an experiment involving the effects of a genetically designed parasite, what would the organism be, and what effect would it have upon me?" See. That sort of thing.
5. If I cannot put it on my shelf, it's not book. And no, placing a Kindle or a Nook or a whatever on the shelf doesn't count. Call it a data-storage or media delivery device. I have no problem with that. But it's not a book.***
6. Later this week Kathryn will be beginning a new round of eBay auctions (the first in a long time), and we'll be including ONE signed copy of The Drowning Girl ARC. Be the first on your block and all that.
7. Last night we played too much Rift again, but this time with a new guild member,
opalblack. I dusted off my Eth warrior, Indus, and it was pretty fucking cool tanking for a change. Watchers of the Unseen (Defiant side, Faeblight shard) is always looking for new members, especially those interested in RP.8. I'm ending the Aunt Beast Book of the Month Club. Results were, at best, mixed. And I think I never recovered from that Carrie Ryan fiasco.
9. The postman just brought Nos. 1 and 2 (Fall 2010 and 2011) of Centipede Press' The Weird Fiction Review. No. 2 includes the first print appearance of my story, "Fish Bride." And, honestly, the Review is a gorgeous thing, more in the fashion of an academic literary journal than a pulp magazine. I'm very impressed. Oh, also, I've sold a poem I wrote last year, "Atlantis," to Strange Horizons. This is the first time I have ever actually sold a poem. Sure, I included "Zelda Fitzgerald" in Tales of Pain and Wonder, but that's different.
Epilogue:
Would you leave me if I told you what I've done?
And would you leave me if I told you what I've become?
~ and ~
You can't choose what stays and what fades away. ~ Florence + the Machine
Anger's Little Petri Dish,
Aunt Beast
*** Please comment on things besides ebooks. Thank you.
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:33 pm (UTC)Hmm. Wish I could.
While part of me wouldn't be at all sad if members of my family decided to never speak to me again, even if they had been looking for me for 33 years, the other part looks at the EIGHT kumihimo cuffs in progress, in the last week, and thinks maybe I need to get more unexpected letters and sudden emails...
It's a trade off. Bad memories or a sudden creative burst. Too bad they were linked in this case.
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:34 pm (UTC)Last time, I went with 2, and came home with 11 more.
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:42 pm (UTC)Last time, I went with 2, and came home with 11 more.
See...I might read one book a month.
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-22 05:48 pm (UTC)Me, I devour books like they were food and I need them to survive.
1) I have one eye, which makes me a slow reader.
2) I read slowly, and savor. It makes them no less necessary to my "diet."
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-22 05:57 pm (UTC)he'd rather stay up playing a video game.
Same here.
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Date: 2011-11-22 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-23 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-22 05:38 pm (UTC)Hmm. Wish I could.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
even if they had been looking for me for 33 years, the other part looks at the EIGHT kumihimo cuffs in progress, in the last week
I think you just lost me. I mean, I know what kumihimo is, but...family?
Bad memories or a sudden creative burst.
For me, these things are inextricable. Pain is the most perfect source of inspiration.
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:44 pm (UTC)As a result of too much thinking, too much being inside my own head and those dark corners, I've created 8 kumihimo braids- 3 of which are halfway to becoming cuffs already, since Weds.
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:46 pm (UTC)Long story short- my birth mother chose to cut ties with us when I was 5 years old, it seems her brother has been looking for us ever since (33 years) and finally found me last Weds and sent me a letter.
Okay. Just wasn't sure how that followed from the post. But I'm not awake.