I am all coughy and spluttery and not happy about it, today. Work; slightly smarter about the feared deathmarch than feared, but still not fun. Happy birthday shweta_narayan ! *hug* Saw the free premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead on Tuesday. It was fun in a very light comic sort of way, with vampires running a theatre doing a strange Hamlet-based play that's not really...
For those involved in the writing/GLBT/book worlds, or who are otherwise connected with the appropriate info-skeins, you've probably heard about Amazon Fail. Over the weekend, Amazon pulled the sales rankings on a bunch of "adult themed" books which removes them from their search engine, among other things. Problem is, many/most of the books that had their rankings pulled involved GLBT themes/characters...
The CD Exchange proposed by dreamshark under the theme Divine Madness . My entry is Ascent Into Madness (includes track listings). I haven't gotten any back. Minicon is a good opportunity! To the best of my recollection, I have initiated an exchange with: dreamshark mle292 freeimprov pegkerr giftedgear alchav and one to powersalad...
pegkerr linked to a site called This is Why You're Thin , offering attractive pictures of healthful vegetarian food and of physical activity, the opposite of the bad-for-you food at This is Why You're Fat . So the name is, according to some people, just a natural reversal of terms. Only, really it's not. Many people commented to the site that, being into healthful food from plants, we'd...
It actually made me a little sad to do this - so many people I used to hear from all the time are just gone now... On the other hand, I cherish you guys all the more, and by the way - you gys have great taste in those little squares of story and art! fileg's friendsCollage ...
I decided to buy a copy of Lincoln's Melancholy by Michael Wolf Shenk, this morning. The book only came out in 2005, and it seems to already be out of print, or something--it's listed as a bargain book on Amazon. Lincoln's Health: I spent most of yesterday afternoon reading the Lincoln Portrait website, the one pegkerr directed me to, about the newly-discovered daguerreotype of Lincoln...