K.Z. Snow's Blog, page 37

Computer Hell

Don't know if you've all noticed or not, but I haven't been online since last Friday. Why? Well, it wasn't because of some fun-in-the-sun Fourth of July weekend vacation.

I awoke Saturday morning to find that some vicious creature (worm, parasite, virus -- beats me what category it fall into) had taken over my computer. As soon as I booted up, a big ol' window appeared that claimed to be a Windows alert. My machine was allegedly infected with a gazillion different things and I needed to downl...

Now I'M a wiener!

Before I tell you what it is I've won, here's a reminder to pop in at Beth Wylde's Yahoo group on Wednesday to visit with Clare London, Chrissy Munder, Patric Michael, Felicitas Ivey, Jaime Samms, and me. (I'll be the one hugging the wall near the punch bowl.)

Now, what did I win? A print copy of a book. PRINT. Words on paper. Bound. No more sitting at my desktop to read, at least temporarily. My eyes and back and butt, they are so very happy! They tell me to enter more contests for print book...

You really must watch this.

This video is exquisitely beautiful. Dare you not to cry or get misty or at least sigh while you watch it. (Someone please tell Kris to get her butt over here!)

So here's to Pride month, and to a time when this type of gentle, affectionate intimacy is accepted everywhere. It's as emblematic of what makes life worthwhile as anything I've ever seen.

Brighten your hump day!

Wednesday could see you squealing in delight like these ladies if you pay attention to the following announcement. (Honest! I'm not kidding!)

As you may know, Beth Wylde has been celebrating Gay Pride month at her Yahoo group by hosting different GLBT authors and publishers or featuring certain themes every day throughout June. Clare London graciously -- or out of desperation -- invited me to join her and Chrissy Munder on Wednesday the 30th. Other writers will be there too: Felicitas Ivey, Pa...

Straight Actors Playing Gay Men

The Ovation channel has been honoring Gay Pride Month by running ten evenings' worth of programs featuring gay themes and characters. I've so far seen the UK "Queer as Folk" episodes, of which there seem to be precious few, and a truly pretentious movie called Velvet Goldmine that centers on the bygone British glam-rock craze (of all the wonderful GLBT movies out there, why, I wonder, did they run this dud?)
Aside from the fact that American TV is pathetically bereft of good GLBT programming, ...

An Award for Making Stuff Up - WINNER

Jessica Freely (click title) sent me this, obviously in recognition of my penchant for "making shit up." :-D
That minx was at Wiscon, and I didn't even know it! (Wiscon is essentially a female fantasy writers convention, GLBT more than welcome.) And she did a reading there! And it's only a two-hour drive south of me! *sigh* Well, there's always next year.
Anyway, y'all have played this game, I think, so I can't tag anybody. Just call me K.Z. "Day Late and Dollar Short" Snow. I'm always behind...

An Award for Making Stuff Up

Jessica Freely (click title) sent me this, obviously in recognition of my penchant for "making shit up." :-D
That minx was at Wiscon, and I didn't even know it! (Wiscon is essentially a female fantasy writers convention, GLBT more than welcome.) And she did a reading there! And it's only a two-hour drive south of me! *sigh* Well, there's always next year.
Anyway, y'all have played this game, I think, so I can't tag anybody. Just call me K.Z. "Day Late and Dollar Short" Snow. I'm always...

Brief Update

The steampunk WIP is picking up momentum. I'm also beginning to realize I'll likely get spanked for a having a manic-depressive hero. (No, not "bipolar," which is a contemporary, real-world term used to describe a real disease that afflicts real people. The story isn't set in the real world, and said hero isn't entirely human. So, natch, I took liberties.)
Electric Melty Tingles , my contemporary coming-out story for Loose Id, will be published in late September.
Fugly for Liquid Silver is going...

The Most Overlooked & Underappreciated, Part 2

Timbuk3 (formerly Pat MacDonald and the Essentials)

I have a roundabout connection to these Wisconsin musicians, who, I believe, are no longer a couple. Some years ago (everything in my life happened "some years ago"), I lived in a county that's probably the most chichi tourist trap in the upper Midwest. Slaved away there, I did, cleaning rooms at waterfront motels and country inns, preparing and serving food, even tending bar for a brief, doomed while. I've heard it said that this song is abo...

The Most Overlooked, Underappreciated...

Since a lot of us seem to take musical breaks from our reading and writing, I figured I'd pick up what's kind of becoming a blog meme, even though I still don't know exactly what a meme is. I decided to pay homage to some of the greatest voices in pop music that you either never heard of or have forgotten about.

Let's start with Terence Trent D'Arby. Remember him? An American ex-pat living in Great Britain, last I heard. But he could be in Bora Bora now for all I know. Gorgeous, talented man. ...