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19 December 2009

This is WONDERFUL. Full-screen and HD it if you can. Share it -- it deserves to be seen.

The Known Universe by AMNH

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We went to AVATAR and enjoyed it, but I can't help wondering why something with such obvious debts to Ursula Le Guin's THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST doesn't mention that (and probably isn't paying her royalties, either.) Am I wrong? Did I miss something?

18 December 2009

I don't usually post links to this kind of stuff (I'm more the acid casualty mashup...

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16 December 2009

I'm feeling very squished by the holiday season impacting on an overabundance of work. A bit short on holiday spirit. I will go cheer myself by telling the dogs long jokes and then pretending to forget the punchline. It drives them CRAZY.

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BWS. A god (for some of us 70s comic book geeks.)

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In the little "Who's Looking For You?" ads in the sidebars, the picture is usually a stacked young blonde woman. Is this personally coded for my profile (male)? Because if it's...

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15 December 2009

Hellish last two days with almost-teenager and major homework malfeasance (12-week project discovered untouched for eight weeks, first major part now due.) Tears, excuses, rage, self-flagellation. The kid didn't handle it too well, either.

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Okay, this has been around for a while and you've probably seen it, but if you haven't (and you're the kind of person who appreciates this sort of thing, ie a Watchmen nerd) then you'll really, really like me. (Even if you only know...

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13 December 2009

A good friend of ours was stabbed in a night club where he went to see Tiësto, the brilliant musician and producer. (Our friend is okay, fortunately.) He (friend) is mildly famous, and said the worst thing about the incident is that when the story showed up in the news the reporters didn't understand the name Tiësto and so all the articles said he was shanked at a Kiss concert.

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13 December 2009

My children asked me to put this picture of the dog being bathed up on Facebook. Don't ask me why. Here it is.

12 December 2009

We have committed Tree. It is large and green and smells good. Other than that, it's too soon to tell. The dogs are taking bets for which one is going to be first past the blockade to piddle on it.

12 December 2009

"Before you slip into unconsciousness, I'd like to have another kiss..." Rock classic or date rape anthem?

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10 Dec 2009

On schedule with the Great Final Thrash. Finished proofing the manuscript tonight, tomorrow is Appendix and Headers and phoning in the corrections. My reward for finishing SHADOWRISE will be plunging back into ORDINARY FARM 2 and SHADOWHEART rewrites.

9 Dec 2009

Question to contemplate: Not that I'm not TOTALLY SURE that Facebook is going to, like, LIVE FOREVER...I'm just wondering in what highly science-fictional social arena will we all be meeting, say, twenty years from now...

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10/25/09

From: srmarra@dumdidum.net
Date: October 25, 2009 3:41:48 PM PDT
To: "Deborah Beale" deborah.shazam@batnet.com
Subject: Re: Episode 2 video

I've not up loaded yet. Deb, have U had chance to review what I Wrote for email blast for Tues?

Thanks
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Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Hey Steve - I'm getting to it right now - I'm wading through emails and stuff.

I have just made the horrifying discovery that the wrongful-death lawsuit is coming to court the week of World Fantasy Con ...

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10/18/09

Betsy Wollheim sent me this, and I love it....

From MAD magazine #43, 1958:

I Wandered Lonely as a Clod

I wandered lonely as a clod,
Just picking up old rags and bottles,
When onward on my way I plod,
I saw a host of axolotls;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
A sight to make a man's blood freeze.
Some had handles, some were plain;
They came in blue, red pink, and green.
A few were orange in the main;
The damndest sight I've ever seen.
The females gave a sprightly glance;
The male ones all...

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10/5/09

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Topic: Reincarnation & Rebirth
Displaying posts collected by Deb whose fantasy-loving, parentally practicing * imagination was tickled by this. And I love the whole idea of "further becoming," I've been trying to frame this in relation to YA fiction for a while. For me it's about the "further becoming" of those years.

*We've had to discuss some of this with the Son of the family, owing to past anxieties...

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9/29/09

Belting this out between the demands of the day. Tad is entirely chained to his desk. He reminds me of Madonna in the 'Express Yourself' video – chained to her desire, as she once put it. Tad's chained to his joy and he's chained to his sins. I'm feeling rather Blakean today.

The house is quiet. Right now, sleeping, Tad is a great big heap of pillows and dogs, with just one arm visible, holding the lot in place. Somehow that makes me think, Tad is in his pit…

We are working like...

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