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gwionfawyr, posting in nanowrimo @ 12:00 am: November 7, 2009 - Word Count
Nothing witty today. Am trying to catch up between studying for Bio Test.

Jenn

snopes_dot_com @ 03:00 pm: Free Meals for Veterans

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/veterans.asp

Restaurant chains are offering free meals to U.S. military personnel in conjunction with Veterans Day.

the_willow @ 08:52 pm: wth lyrics?
It's is a very bad idea to listen to lyrics.

Dear Mary J Blige

What does a man buying a woman material things have to do with her falling in love with him and him treating her like a woman? Since when were love, identity, and sexuality for sale? Since when could they be bought with shoes and a bag?

Also wth is up "Now I only want to do what you tell me to." Like? What the hell? Who owns your sexuality here? Or is this more about a woman's place? Huh?

**feels ridiculous for having the music for going on 2 years now and only just having the lyrics pop out**

Ok. I'm gong to bed. I must have my head screwed on wrong. Cause I'm all "Shake down, I'm robbing you for your love, don't put up a fight." Just keeps making me go WHAT THE BLEEPING F*CK??.

So clearly it is not that the world is filled with messed up messages about human interaction and just that my brain's wired weird and somehow sleep will fix that. Or maybe just closing my eyes and being horizontal.

It's magic.

Tags: consumer culture everywhere, music

lisaroquin @ 03:41 pm: Q&A version Fic.
last two trick or treats are up! YES! Got them all done. They're snippets of some original stuff floating around my hard drive. one is here and the other is here

I'm failing at the whole daily blogging, I realize this. Too many RL distractions and too little sleep, writing is sketchy and too much chaos.

Excitement of the day? A moving blanket that made me go WTF? Boo has a yankees blankie. It was wadded up on the back of the couch and started moving. Yeah major wtf. Took a bit of digging since the cause isn't much bigger than my fist but burrowed in the yankees blankie was the Yankee BabyCatses.

Free for all on questions about fic/characters/writing 'til Monday how's that? (uh yeah, tapped out here on creative w/ writing, so not original or probably not interesting with the attempt to blog for november)

Blanket answer to when something's going to be done....when muses & real life cooperate at the same time.
Blanket answer to will I send you wahtever fic...no.
Blanket answer to when something gets added to the pdfs?...when I get another few ready and have time when my connection and mediafire play nicely.

What's the concentration at the moment? Away With The Boys in the Band, A Little Bit Backwards, Never the Easy Way and the last Try Anything (which is about 1/3 done after being comepletely torn apart twice).

And yup, at best my fanfic is spellchecked/continuity checked rough drafts. relaxation/fun minimal sleep & minimal ability to think in straight line some days. ~shrugs~ so this seems kind of silly to do but...why not? anything want to ask abt character, story whatever. though ~points at blanket answers above~

ide_cyan @ 01:48 am: Elise's November clearance sale is here!

http://elisem.livejournal.com/1528096.html

Tinyurl link to the sale I created for twitter earlier:
http://tinyurl.com/magpiealert

snopes_dot_com @ 03:00 pm: 20/20 Revision

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/stossel.asp

Was ABC News' 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel fired for trying to air a piece critical of health care reform?

lisaroquin @ 09:19 pm: there's two of the trick or treats left. I'm hoping to get those done tomorrow. hey only a week late. ~sighs~ writing has not been cooperative this week in the least.

Thinking has not been all that cooperative this week. It's just kinda been one of those weeks.

part 1 & part 2 of Pieces out of place were posted as part of the trick or treats did not want to post that as a WIP but I'm to the point am desperate to finish up the treats. And connection has been made of fail to maybe do a few songs for treat.

beccastareyes @ 08:37 pm: Fanfiction.net Meme
I stole this from galuxkitty.

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Tags: meme

gwionfawyr, posting in nanowrimo @ 12:03 am: November 6, 2009 - Word Count
Post is up a little bit early. I have classes tomorrow and yeah, I'm hoping that you all are having fun and driving your characters through the paces.

Jenn

slimshadowen @ 06:23 pm: Remember, remember, the 5th of November...

Today is Guy Fawkes today.

Celebrate by killing people and blowing shit up.

Tags: patriotism, terrorism

dsgood @ 02:45 pm: Review: Jude I. Parry, The Annoying Cases of Stepmother Gray

Unlike most Americans who call themselves Satanists, Stepmother Gray worships Satan. She founded the Church of Impure Evil, and leads its Minneapolis congregation.

In the tradition of Chesterton's Father Brown and other fictional clerics, she's an amateur detective. But unlike Father Brown, she doesn't want justice to be done. Her goal is to find the criminal, and then frame an innocent person for the crime.

Unfortunately, this never works out. In each story, the person she frames turns out to be guilty.

maureenlycaon @ 11:34 am: Free association: valid alternative to thinking?
Over the past few days, these two items hit me in close succession, overcoming my apathy. Gee, that really sounds deep, doesn't it.

And I'm willing to bet that these two women think their words sound really deep, too.

Exhibit A in today's mini-freak show: Dr. Werner explains why homeotherapy really, no shit really, works.



"So, if you take that formula E=MC squared, you can almost cross out mass. So the formula ends up being, energy equals the speed of light. And that's why the vision system is so important, because we have lots of photoreceptors that receive light doorknob tomato eggplant moon out of cheese error . . ."

Exhibit B: A Christian fundie explains yet again that celebrating Halloween will open you to demons. I'd link you to the original, which was even more astonishing, but apparently Charisma Magazine didn't like all the drive-by pointing and laughing. It's still in Google's cache, though.

I feel lazy, so I'll just quote what I already said in Greg Laden's blog:

One thing that strikes me about this article is how incoherent it really is. It skips from one disconnected thought to the next, sentence by sentence: "But we cannot be ignorant of the devices of the enemy. When we pray, we bind the powers of the strong men that people involved in the occult worship."

Each paragraph doesn't have a single theme or coherent thought; it's more or less arbitrary. Often, the sentences and phrases are practically meaningless: "...the vortexes of hell are releasing new assignments against souls."

It makes me think of the "word salads" that psychotics sometimes produce. I wouldn't be surprised if the author was really a borderline schizophrenic who has never been diagnosed.

Seriously . . . my first impulse is to point and laugh hysterically at what I see here. My second is to feel a little guilty and ashamed, because this may go beyond people simply being stupid into the realm of mental illness. Another reader, responding to my comment, guessed "bipolar going into a maniac phase", which I suppose is even more likely: bipolars are probably more common and less often viewed as crazy in day-to-day contacts than schizophrenics.

How much of the weirdness we see today is really this, and not just stupidity? What do we do about it? Easy enough to laugh at it and mock it. But why does it seem to be so contagious, and how do we stop it from spreading? I dunno . . . It's like more and more people have decided that this sort of random free association is a perfectly fine substitute for actual thinking.


I do like Charisma Magazine's new poll, however.

Do you believe the Holy Spirit manifests Himself in drunken behavior?

Yes.
Sometimes.
Never.
I don't understand.

snopes_dot_com @ 03:00 pm: Foxumentary

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/foxnews.asp

What happened to the FOX News documentary on Barack Obama?

darkrose @ 08:24 pm: You're Standing On My Neck
Last Sunday, telesilla and I went to our favorite "special occasion" restaurant for a belated (because someone might have been at DragonCon) anniversary dinner. It's ironic in the "like people trying to keep you from having your wedding day" sense, because one year ago today, a majority of California voters decided that my marriage shouldn't be valid. This year, it happened in Maine (and you can't exactly blame the black folks for this one).

I've seen a lot of blog comments today about how it's counter-productive to say that people who vote against marriage equality are bigots. And it probably is.

But here’s the thing:

It doesn't matter.

If you vote against marriage equality, then in practical terms, it doesn’t matter to me whether you’re Fred Phelps or whether your best friend/co-worker/son/daughter/second cousin twice removed is gay. I don’t care if you’re a Catholic, Baptist, Mormon, Orthodox Jew, or Muslim. Because from where I sit, the result is the same: you believe that my relationship with the person I’ve been with for five years, the person I moved 3,000 miles to be with, the one who goes out at 3 AM to get ginger ale and crackers for me because I have stomach flu, the one who’s held my hand and been there while I’ve dealt with my mother’s dementia and Parkinson’s disease—you’re telling me that because that person is the same gender as I am, our relationship is less valid and less worthy of respect than that of a man and woman who met in Las Vegas, got drunk and decided to get married in front of an Elvis impersonator.

To me, it's irrelevant whether you did so because you believe that God ordained marriage to be between one man and one woman, or because you think the state shouldn't be involved with marriage, or because you're worried about what to tell your children, or because you think two men having sex is icky and gross. What matters to me is that you've taken a conscious, deliberate action to say that I, personally, do not deserve the same shot at being happy with the person I love that any straight person does. Your reasons for choosing to make my life more difficult and more painful are much less important to me than the fact that you've made that choice.

If you're standing on my neck, I'll worry about why you'd do something like that later. My first priority will be getting you to stop standing on my neck.

Tags: lgbt issues, marriage equality, politics, ranty mc rantypants

teh_kittykat @ 10:16 pm: Can't resist the (ahem) holiday icon.

I hate having all-day headaches from hormones. Added work drama does not help matters (none of it is particularly poised to suck me in, but I ended up staying late to deal with it because teenagers are stupid, stupid creatures sometimes). And I have meetings all tomorrow morning so heaven knows how all that's going to play out. I also need to do chores around the apartment and start packing (yay for book boxes!). And all my instincts want me to be a slug all weekend since it's my first weekend without class.

I pretty much aced the grad class, btw. I'm beginning to think that the insane writing program I was involved in during undergrad has given me an unfair advantage in grad school. And then I cackle because I rock so hard.

Downside is that grades won't be available on transcripts until December when the regular semester ends, which means reimbursement paperwork will have to wait 'til then. Nuts.

Tags: edjimication, get off my lawn

the_willow @ 10:14 pm: From Mean To Sympathetic In About 90 minutes
I feel mean, or rather I was feeling mean. When I heard about the newly married couple stranded in Germany because Expedia.com told them they wouldn't need visas for Russia; I couldn't help pondering Americans and international travel and lack of awareness. I just couldn't. I've been traveling since I was a baby and there's a hard edge of privilege there of 'How could you not double check that???!'. It's possibly also blended with "America is Not Rome!" and also "Are you a Commonwealth citizen? No. Is Russia a Commonwealth nation? No. Then WTF?"

But I felt much less mean when I heard that once the whole hullabaloo fermented, Expedia compounded matters by not switching their tickets over to any other destination, refusing them emergency visa assistance that was within their power to do and only paying a third of their overnight hotel stay while things were sorted out.

So many thoughts in my head, chief of which is 'always get a name'. It can be difficult to remember, I know, because for many things it won't much matter. But someone stating in an authoritative manner their expertise on a subject where you know nothing - demands writing down a name and the time and date of the call.

The other thought in my head the more I thought about things? Expedia's greed. Booking a flight to a country that requires a visa, without knowing whether or not the customers have the visa and then making that booking nonrefundable? That's not customer service. That's a con game.

Somehow or the other business practices have forgotten the concept of the repeat loyal customer and just go for "fleece 'em while they're standing still" as if the customer base is so huge, the market so big, that it doesn't matter how many people they piss off and cheat, there are more newbies waiting in the wings. This business practice seems even more irrational to me in this age of iPhone, Twitter, Facebook & Blogs. A company's name can get out there, and gain a disreputable notoriety in a matter of hours, given the right organized base. Who is actually big enough to withstand that? I mean if even Amazon went "Oh crap, we just shot ourselves in the foot with a lavender gun"; Can Expedia really afford to have twenty-somethings associating them with horrible trips, international abandonment & strandedness and mean officials who make brides cry?

Really?

That's their marketing plan?

ETA: My mother just mentioned how in countries outside of the US, one can't even get a ticket bought (to the US) without proof of a US Visa.

Tags: blogsphere at large, current trending topic

darkrose @ 06:50 pm: Try2WriSoMo: Day 3
Still didn't make 500, but closer today than yesterday, so I feel good about that. I'm glad I decided not to try to make myself stick to one fic, because I've started working on a More Than One Answer futurefic focusing on Joe and Dylan and Christina's daughter. I swear, every time I try to get away from the Keptverse and write something a little more cheerful, I get another bunny.

I had another Keptverse dream last night that was more weird than anything else, in that "WTF subconcious?" way. The only part I remember were that like so many of my nightmares, my old high school was featured prominently, and that there was a real problem developing with excessive inbreeding among the slaveowning classes of the Empire. I suspect that last bit is poisontaster's fault.

856 / 15000 words. 6% done!

Tags: meta: keptverse, meta: writing, try2wrisomo

gwionfawyr, posting in nanowrimo @ 12:00 am: November 5, 2009 - Word Count
I've hit 7500+, then restarted so now my count is 3100+. Am tired, hungry and sleepy. Post is up for the day fine ladies and gents.

snopes_dot_com @ 03:00 pm: Noah Biorkman

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/biorkman.asp

Noah Biorkman, a 5-year-old boy battling cancer, wants to receive Christmas cards.

lisaroquin @ 01:11 pm: well what do you know. made two days, that's it for blogging every day. ~laughs~ and it was mostly just pointings at that.

Stupid pet rambling today for something to post. Hopefully fic this evening. Sleep has been in 2 hour naps and writing time has been spent trying to inhale coffee and think in a straight line while there was quiet more than writing.

The Invaders have all been named.
King Louie/Louie--the little cream & orange tabby tom kitten
Dot--little black & white female wiht a black dot on her white chin.
Dora--as in Dora the explorer, she's the one in everything most often, the little tortie/black calico.

The other two little tom kittens were named by Boo, round about. He got asked about kitten names, started reciting baseball teams. Since he's obsessed with all New York teams, regardless of sport,

Mets--little black and white tom kitten
Yankee--little black/charcoal tomkitten (mostly looks black, but if he's in sunlight you can see a bit of tabby marking in him)

The Invaders have conquered CookieCat. She herds them and fusses at them more than mama TinyCat. That and Cookie's a typical kid. The night she decided to go down and plunk in the kittens box in the laundry room, I tried to take her out of it how many times. She of course went directly back to it like the brat she is. ~rolls eyes~ way to train a cat? tell it no. it will ensure the cat does what it's told not to every time. And you probably won't break the cat of the habit like you will a two year old human, until two year old hits about 13-15.

At the moment there is a pile of fur next to my desk, mostly dark with some cream/orange & white speckles and spots (Tiny & Cookie are both tortie/mostly black calico) and one little ball of orange sprawled ontop of the longest fur in the pile (Cookie being the long-haired one)

Brandy however is traumatized. Yes. 35 lbs of Beagle, supposedly a hunting/tracking breed, utterly and completely terrified of not even a combined 2lbs worth of itty bitty kittens.

Dora, whose head--the *top* of her head is equal with the ankle of my daughter's tennis shoe (just a plain old running shoe, decent sole on it but not hightop or particularly notably thick sole, size five womens tennis shoe)--Little Bitty Dora was *chasing* Brandy. Brandy ran yelping for the Girl's bed. (Invader's haven't mastered climbing up on the bed yet. Next weeks going to be very traumatic for Brandy because they should have the climbing *up* business down by then. They're just about mastering climbing down from bed or couch or chair they've been put on without going thunk-land-on-nose)

Brandy needs to go out, she either has to be picked up and carried around the kittens or the kittens picked up and moved out of the way, and then Brandy will *RUN* past where the kittens are, to the point of skidding out on wood or lineoleum into oh, walls, the stove, the fridge...

The sooner the Invaders find homes the better. Ugh. You'd think the worry would be the dog going chomp on the kittens? No. It's the kittens giving the dog a heart attack.

Seriously, as sweet (and honestly *quiet* for a Beagle) Brandy is? Never ever ever ever have a purebred animal again. She's allergic to everything. Neurotic to the point you just have to stare at the dog and shake your head (and she's been that way since the day we got her, when she was..2? Only reason we have a purebred or actually a house dog at all was a can't take with move.. Cookie likes laying on couch, she's been dragging Invaders up there with her. Tiny's a convert to the couch as well as long as kids aren't home.)

Brandy is also sulking big time. Cookie's her buddy. Cookie is hanging with Tiny & Invaders. Kids are all gaga over Invaders. ~pets the poor Brandy~

Tags: critters, reasons why i'm nuts