the_magician and I were wondering if it would be sensible to ask previous eastercon committees if they'd be willing for us to upload their souvenirbooks, readmes and PRs etc to the eastercon wiki www.eastercon.org . Clearly their are issues with preservation, privacy, copyright and format, but do people thing it a good idea in principle? Would you ever download them?
i just went back and read 2 years worth of posts. all those times i said i had to go study... i probably didn't. 2 weeks of class then finals week. i really need to find motivation to start studying. fuck it's already 10:35? damn it. do you ever really stop missing someone? i truly don't think so. until you find someone else. anyway, i am having the hardest fucking time finding someone else. i ...
So, my geeky father has just discovered podcasts. I was thinking about getting him a recommendedlistening list for Christmas (among other things), but I know no podcasts. I know at least two of you do. Help? :) Anything that features obscure knowledge would be a hit; my dad read Cryptonomicon and loved it for the historical asides. He's not into current fandoms at all but he's insatiably ...
with over 100 b-sides this year i'm still not completely satisfied with it, but i am passing the savings on to you! HERE'S a bag of some of my favorites that didn't make the album. 20 random people will receive a "non-specifically special" edition copy and everybody else will get a "significantly shittier" edition, each featuring such artists as: the management animal collective fleet foxes ...
And will reiterate it during tomorrow's Mall of Shadesong post... I am taking commissions for poetry and flash fiction. Give me $20 and a topic, and you get a poem or brief story. Only ten seven slots are open, because that's all I feel I can guarantee this upcoming week; if I run through them all quickly, I may open up a few more, but it's first come, first served. And yes, you can ask for ...
There's a saying about growing up: You reach adulthood when one of your parents dies. My philosophy is that you know you're a woman when men start harassing you in public and nobody gives a shit. Think about it. If you were twelve years old and some strange man started shifting into your personal space or even talking to you, at least one person nearby would intervene and maybe even call the ...
... to buy a drink and when you're flush pride keeps you from the pawn shops and because you are continually committing nuisances but more especially in your own house Humanity i love you because you are perpetually puttingthe secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you
...'s your nationality?" or, "What's your lifestyle?" or, "What's your, your gender preference?" or, you know, anything else. You just help the guy. "You just help the guy." By what? Executing him? Putting him in jail for life? To his credit, David Gregory did ask Warren on his support for California's successful anti-gay ballot measure, but didn't press the pastor's assertion that he was never a ...
