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May 27th, 2012
innocent_man
 | 11:57 am - Game posts, and maybe mechanical stuff.
OK, so. ( Last night. )
Actually, looking at the character sheets now, I don't actually have to do anything for the Mementos that folks have, so I'll just rejigger Sarah's power sheet and call it a day.
Oh, also cooked last night:
Beef brisket, artichokes, plums, pigeon peas, goat cheddar.
( What would you do? )
- Finish cleaning kids' rooms.
Do write-up from last night's Geist game, and if I get really ambitious, last week's curse the darkness game.
Finish mowing the lawn.
Work on Hunters Hunted 2 redlines. (Not done, but worked on 'em.)
- Shoot video for curse the darkness.
- Assemble stuff for Origins' games.
- Play some L.A. Noire.
- Make a character.
Figure out stats/mechanics for mementos for Geist characters, which I forgot to do after the last game.
- Watch Dead Man with Michelle.
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dsgood
| 01:25 pm
Happy Birthday, ellenmillion!
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greygirlbeast
 | 01:04 pm - "Dear whoever you might be, I'm still waiting patiently."
All I have to offer the world is inside those books. That's it, the absolute and dubious sum total of my ability to offer aid to anyone. If what you're looking for isn't in there, you need to look elsewhere. I can't save you. I can't even help you. All I can offer is my stories. And anyone who asks more of me is overstepping boundaries they have no right to cross.
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I've had much worse birthdays than yesterday. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) readingthedark came down in the late afternoon. We had dinner at Tortilla Flats. We played an absolutely abominable game of "World of Warcraft" Monopoly (and why the hell are the Draenei represented nowhere in the game?!), and, in theory, Geoffrey won. We had some frozen caramel and cashew ice-cream pie thing. I got stoned. We talked too much. I got to sleep just as the sun was rising.
My thanks to all the "happy birthday" wishes yesterday. There were something like four hundred via Facebook, and, honestly, that just freaks me right the fuck out. Thank you for being there.
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Spooky is still having a Caitlín Was (Most Years) Actually Born on the 27th of May Sale in her Dreaming Squid Dollworks and Sundries Etsy Shop. Cool and bow-tie stuff, with FREE SHIPPING, which will run through Monday. In order to take advantage of the sale, you need to use this code during checkout: CRKBIRTHDAY. Buy something bow tie, kittens!!! No, really!
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Looking back from -08, here is what I will say: I want such very simple things. That's actually true. Instead, my life has presented me with a baffling array of complexities. I didn't say that quite right. "Baffling complexities" isn't actually what I mean. If the cosmos had some collective consciousness, if all our gods and goddesses and demons were anything more than fairy tales, they might understand what I meant to say. Those things I wish I had, though – those things I still hope for to the point I feel ashamed and ungrateful for not being gladder for what I have instead – they are so simple they might take your breath away.
Breathe In,
Aunt Beast
Current Mood:  you think there's a word?
Current Music: The Civil Wars, "My Father's Father"
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andrewducker
 | 05:01 pm - The world is slowly getting better
(US data, via from here)
I am fairly convinced that the current flurry of anti-woman and anti-homosexual drives by the Republicans (and equivalents elsewhere) are because they have realised that they are _losing_ and this is their last ditch attempt to hold on to the America they know and love. More and more of the people that are against marriage equality are old, more and more of the people that are in favour are young, and the switchover is happening as older people die off, because their culture is just not being passed on*.
So, while the current backlash is frustrating and annoying, it doesn't worry me in the long-term**. Twenty years from now people will look at this last-ditch attempt to stop gay rights the same way as we look at the riots over integration in schools in 1960s USA**.
*The same is true in the UK - church attendance in children and teenagers is down by 90% over the last two decades.
**Which isn't to say that the anger and work that's being done isn't vitally necessary - just that the weight is now on the side of the people doing that work.
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eyemage
 | 08:43 am
Day 178 of 366
Originally uploaded by ian_mcc
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james_nicoll
 | 11:41 am - Dear subconscious
Why is this song in particular ear-worming me today?
Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are  comment(s); comment here or there.
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bart_calendar
 | 05:05 pm - Guilt
So when I called up my brother to wish him Happy Graduation I had completley spaced that it was my mom's birthday so didn't say "Happy Birthday" until she brought it up.
She wasn't bitchy about it but I do feel bad.
I've just had a lot of work on my plate for the past few days and did not know it was May 26th yesterday at all.
Part of me thinks I shouldn't feel that guilty because the only reason I even knew to call my brother for graduation was that my dad sent me an email yesterday asking me to - and I kind of feel like he could have said "by the way, asshole, also wish your mom happy birthday."
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james_nicoll
| 10:38 am - What was I doing in 2009
That resulted in
And then, they're disappointed and can't seem to understand why casual SFF readers don't give a shit about the John Clute, M. John Harrison, and James Nicoll of this world?
Seriously, if you say "John Clute, M. John Harrison and", "James Nicoll" is not going to be the name that leaps to mind to complete the trio.
(For the record, I like a lot of anime, dislike many comics not because of the medium but because many comics are fuck-awful but, and this is the important bit, many are not, and ditto for movies. I prefer SF to F but A: that's more of a chocolate versus butterscotch thing than my god over your heathen beliefs thing and B: F and SF overlap a lot)
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innocent_man
 | 10:14 am - Stuff I'm Doing Today!
I'm so productive today, you'd think I had a hundred hands!
Seriously. I woke up at 7AM. I have no idea why. I didn't want to go back to sleep, so I went upstairs and moved my son's bed back into his room (he's been sleeping in Teagan's room while we painted in his, and then we got busy/lazy and hadn't moved his bed back). I came back downstairs, did dishes, cleaned the kitchen, cleared stuff off the table, fed the dogs, and then Michelle woke up and I made breakfast.
Other things I need to (or would like to) do today:
- Finish cleaning kids' rooms.
- Do write-up from last night's Geist game, and if I get really ambitious, last week's curse the darkness game.
- Finish mowing the lawn.
- Work on Hunters Hunted 2 redlines.
- Shoot video for curse the darkness.
- Assemble stuff for Origins' games.
- Play some L.A. Noire.
- Make a character.
- Figure out stats/mechanics for mementos for Geist characters, which I forgot to do after the last game.
- Watch Dead Man with Michelle.
Shit, that's a lot to do, yeah? Better get started!
Just so we're not totally devoid of content here, my puppy has a pet. There are little brown hop-toads living under my porch steps, and Si found one yesterday, sniffed it, and then bowed like he wanted to play. Now when he goes outside, he scampers over and sniffs where he last saw the toad.
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jaylake
 | 06:26 am - [conventions] World Steam Expo, Day Two
So the whack factor ran a little higher yesterday. All to the good. After sleeping quite late (by my standards) and a morning workout, I met up with @howardtayler for a leisurely lunch off-site. We had a terrific conversation about writing, life and the value of kindness. Howard also did nifty caricatures of both our waitress and her manager. It was hilariously fun to watch them react with such delight.
Walking back from lunch, we passed a pretty radical steampunked car.
More photos later when I have the bandwidth to upload them. (That would not be right now, unfortunately.)
Back inside, I hooked up with Ellie Copperbottom of the League of S.T.E.A.M. to host a High Tea. Which was a blast, and very odd at the same time. After that, I recorded a brief podcast interview with them. Then I wound up down in the Vendor Room signing books, where we all but sold out of my stock at the table of Off the Beaten Path Books. Gail Carriger and I crossed paths there again.
Dinner consisted of me and a very helpful concom rep making a White Castle run. Sixty dollars later, the League and I were pigging out hard. From there, things devolved into an evening of music, hot tubbing (well, warm tubbing), drinking, and electroshock therapy. I managed to enjoy an electric kiss with a lovely young woman, as well as try out the new sport of electric motorboating. Plus people were doing shots off Boba Fett's icy head, but I eschewed that particular pursuit.
Today I have an author panel and a reading and a day of hanging out.
So, yeah. A lot of fun here. A lot of fun.
Photo © 2012 Howard Tayler, used with permission.
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jaylake
 | 06:10 am - [photos] Your Sunday moment of zen
Your Sunday moment of zen.
San Francisco houses, 2006. © 2006, 2012, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
The current photo series is from my 'favorites' file, hence the dates jumping about
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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jaylake
 | 06:08 am - [links] Link salad parties with the dangerous punks
Easter Island statues had bodies — Did no one ever think to look?
CSR project aims to create a high-speed, carbon-neutral steam-powered locomotive — Oh, cool. (Thanks to David E. Vincent.)
Egos and Immorality — Paul Krugman on the Wall Street fairy tale.
Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history — This is stupid. The evolution debate has been history for a long time. What you have today is a combination of religious willful ignorance and conservative political opportunism. It's not a "debate" in any meaningful sense of the word, as the anti-evolution side has no evidence, logic or credibility.
Conservatives used to care about community. What happened? — They lost their fucking minds.
?otd: Ever been electric motorboated?
5/27/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (Con time)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.5 (solid)
Weight: n/a
Currently reading: Shattering the Ley by Benjamin Tate; Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht
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marthawells
 | 08:01 am - More Question Answers
This is one of those weekends where everyone is off at a con having fun without us. I did see Men in Black III and enjoyed it a bunch. It was a huge lot of fun. It made a nice antidote for The Woman in Black which we rented and watched Friday night, and which was a very well-made, gorgeously filmed movie which I disliked so intensely it upset my stomach.
Question answers:
Brennan Griffin asked
Gate of Gods trilogy
Do you have any plans to re-visit the Ile-Rien world? You may have addressed this somewhere else, but I thought that Gate of Gods did not get nearly the shelf-space it deserved, and I'd definitely like to see more.
Not to say that I'm not enjoying your Cloud Roads sequence! And I quite liked the Wheel of the Infinite as well.
Thank you! The third book in the trilogy, The Gate of Gods, definitely did not show up in most bookstores and I've talked to many people who read the first two books (The Wizard Hunters and The Ships of Air) and never saw the third. The first two books didn't sell as well as the publisher wanted, so they didn't put much effort into getting the third out there. Technically, they are all three still in print, but you have to order them online. They are available as ebooks, too.
I did originally start a prequel novel about Giliead and Ilias, but the publisher wasn't interested in it, so I just turned it into a series of short stories which were eventually published by Black Gate Magazine. (Three of them are on my web site now: Holy Places, Houses of the Dead, and Reflections. There's one more that hasn't been published yet.) At this point, it's been so long I kind of doubt whether I would ever go back to that world. I haven't completely ruled it out, though.
desertport asked I have been wondering this for a little while: What is the ultimate fate of the Ravenna? Does she end up a museum or sink fantastically? Something else?
I always imagined her becoming a floating museum, kind of like the Queen Mary, but more honored and better maintained.
If anyone has anymore questions (about my books or about writing or publishing in general or about what I'm doing today (hint: it's boring)) go ahead and ask.
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