| December 8, 2009 |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|06:00 am] |
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http://www.littledee.net 
12/8/09 - Just a reminder for holiday gifts! This year I released book#3 plus a range of posters. PLUS I still have T-shirts, the Bruno books, and my novel for sale. (INTERNATIONAL: today's your last day for priority shipping!).
PLease support me, and support the great folk at Topatoco.
Here are your ship dates. ORDER NOW. Thanks!
USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORITY = December 8
USPS INTERNATIONAL EXPRESS and DOMESTIC FIRST CLASS AND PRIORITY = December 15
USPS DOMESTIC EXPRESS = December 21
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| Help an LJ-er? |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|03:50 am] |
I'm coming late to this one, too.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) greyladybast has been kicked out of her house by her father. Her abusive father, I think it's safe to say.
She and her son are staying with friends, but she has nothing. No phone, no clothes but what she had on her back, no assets, no winter clothes. Sonofabitch even threw her cat in the pound.
Please, if you can help, help. As ginmar pointed out, and as many of you probably already know all too well, one thing abusers love to do is strip away a person's resources until they have nothing left of their own. Nothing. It's a means of control, and it's a repulsively effective one.
This year has fucking sucked for so many of us. Now it wears out its welcome once again. I know that many of us have very little in the way of resources right now, many of us are tapped out, but this is just unacceptable.
If you can contribute, please, remember to mark the Paypal donation as a gift, so more of it reaches her.
This is just . . . I don't even know. Goddammit. |
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| This Sucky Thing That Happened |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|02:41 am] |
Firstly, I want to offer heartfelt thanks from both Husband and myself to everyone who offered prayers, warm wishes, sympathy and support. Every bit of it has meant so much, and has helped to make this awful week slightly easier to bear.
( Read more... ) |
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| OMG -- Finally -- Jane Austin and MUMMIES! |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|01:03 am] |
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Did you love the Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters? How about PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES? How about a real parody, not only of mummies in general, but of Regency England in the midst of their mad Egyptian phase, as Jane Austin would have loved to have written it? My friends, you are ready for MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES, written by the ever talented Vera Nazarian. Here's a review that just came out.
The report is, this is a scream -- for your Holiday Lists! Here's the Amazon link. |
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| Home again |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|12:48 am] |
Got back here about 8p local time from the 1500 mile round trip to Austin for SMOFcon. I have been catching up on LJ, the news, email and such, and shall endeavour to post tomorrow about the trip and the con and such divertissments as chatting with a Greenpeace proseltyzer, an amazingly expensive paisely shirt, the flagship Whole Paycheck store and the coolest car I've ever seen, not to mention lotsa barbecue.
Maybe soon I'll be tired enough to go to sleep. |
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| TwitterLitter. |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|11:55 pm] |
Annoying friends and strangers alike, 140 bytes at a time.
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| Nice evening of music... |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|12:36 am] |
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Elizabeth Bruce (with Ja), followed by Mary Stewart. Then a few friends back to my place for hot mulled cider and a fire. Nice way to spend an evening. |
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| Brianna's art |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|12:12 am] |
Brianna's artwork has run on the cover of the most recent issue of the Mike Glyer's Hugo-winning fanzine File 770.
You can read this and a bunch of other fanzines at efanzines.com!
Brianna also almost, almost, almost won the Illustrators of the Future contest. Dang. She came in fourth, and the top 3 were winners. So so so very close, agonizingly close. I'm really proud of her as an artist. She'll enter again - and win, I'm sure!
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| Ho Ho Ho! |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|10:36 pm] |
Santarchy approaches!
The Holiday Magic was a great way to play-test some of my Helper Elf gear. I think I have a better handle on what I shall wear this weekend.
And that's good because I'm not going to have any time this week to work on anything else! This includes other elves who might need to borrow something from me, btw.
Here's my schedule for the week:
Monday: Off. Sleeping, mostly. Some organizing of the house and laundry.
Tuesday: Working 12-9pm at the South Store. Should be home by 10.
Wednesday: Working 9am-6 (?) at the South Store.
Thursday: Working, possibly the whole day (10-9) or just 12-9 at the Lindbergh store. (Psst. Can I catch a ride at noon with someone?)
Friday: Working 12-9 at the South Store.
Saturday: Going to the Chiropractor in the morning, then heading down to the cookie to get dressed up. I am seeking a ride for the first part.
Saturday Santarchy:
I intend to hit The Loop by about 11:30 or so.
Do any Santas or Elves need the Santarchy schedule? Let me know, I will email it to you.
What shall I wear? I'm working on a Helper Elf ensemble that will be like this:
Red peasant blouse
Green striped Gawzee coat
Apron of some kind
Skirt (green or red)
Green and white striped stockings
Lucky Red Vans or Black Combat Boots
Elf Hat
My own pointed ears (because I do have pointed ears, you know.)
Dollmaking tools
Dolls
Santa bag
Pieces I have to lend (if you can figure out when to pick them up from me):
Red collared long sleeved shirt that laces up the front. Large or extra large.
Green velvet poet's shirt. Fits everyone. Seriously.
Red Santa Claus T-Shirt. (Printed like a santa suit.)
Half a dozen hats, including elf hats, santa hats, santa hats with impossibly long tails, embroidered santa hats, etc.
Pointed ears: I have a couple of pairs of pointed ears.
So. Who would like to join in as a Toy Maker Elf this year? |
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[Dec. 7th, 2009|10:06 pm] |
I thought he looked familiar.
The amnesiac on Castle tonight was So Familiar, but I could not place him. IMDB to the rescue. Marc Blucas, who played Riley Finn on Buffy.
O.M.G.
I am really confused, actually. I didn't much like him on Buffy (because he was replacing Angel, most likely) but he was utterly mesmerizing on Castle.
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[Dec. 7th, 2009|09:53 pm] |
"chocolate" diamonds.
OMG
The sheer cynical marketing of that.
I am ashamed to be part of the same species. |
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| Cold, Malamutes and Useless Information |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|08:36 pm] |
The forecasters are saying we'll hit -18F tonight, but that's nowhere near Butte's ambient temperature of -30F. Yes, you heard me right. MINUS THIRTY BELOW. Now, I've experienced -25F or so, but -30F has got to be really friggin cold. My imagination doesn't even go there anymore. My guess is that it froze somewhere along the way.
Now, before you start calling me wuss (and I can hear you Alaskans shouting insults at me), I've been in some pretty gnarly weather. I've raced sled dogs in Idaho, Minnesota, Wyoming and Colorado in temperatures that would send Frosty the Snowman to a sauna. I've been in whiteouts, snowstorms and other weather that left you wondering if you got a free micropeel skin abrasion with mushing. I've been in the real Southpark, Colorado with wind so bad that it burst the windows on the only store around. The wind speeds were clocked at 75 to 90 mph at that time. But the concept of -30F plus wind has left me speechless. Or rather, glad I'm indoors and warm and not out in it.
On the other hand (or paw), my Malamutes think this is the best weather ever. They've been complaining how their monkeys keep the house too hot and prefer to lie outside on the snow and feel the cool wind through their hair.
So, while the Malamutes enjoy the cold weather, I've been working on projects. For the first time ever, I've actually gotten to use a book on Heraldry for an article. Being a geek all these years have finally paid off and I've been able to work on articles about things like family crests and nobility titles of the 13th century for actual money. It's kind of cool because I'm producing content for a very well known website as a special project. For some reason, they thought I'd be perfect for doing the work (I had mentioned I had done a fair amount of research into things), but it might have been the feedback scoring and the fact I've written so many books. Anyway, the money is pretty good for content providers. It's nice to know that the useless information isn't so useless after all. |
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tired
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