Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Pick Two

ebenstone @ 5:43pm: What I'm Not Teasing About
When I told my mother about my big "tease" her thought went to one place...and let me quell this now...we are NOT pregnant!

Not that we're preventing it from happening....hehe


That is all....

wickedthought @ 12:32pm: Blood & Tears November 15th!

ebenstone @ 1:58pm: Tease
Something's happened in the last 12 hours that has erased anything resembling the depression and malaise I've been in...but I can't talk about it yet! Let's just say it's made of awesome!

ladytairngire @ 1:28pm: So between the big meeting on Sunday and the God-King's surgery yesterday, I'm completely wiped. Hubby needs soft foods and a chaperone when he eats. Baby Boy needs transport from one house to another, plus lots of "carry-you's" (translate: pick me up mommy, I am feeling insecure). Gotta change the filter on the water jug and keep the dishwasher loaded/unloaded. Got a persistent migraine that won't go away (totally blew detox days ago). Can't think of anything except what absolutely has to happen at any given moment - I'm in robot-Mom-mode. Gettin' 'er done. At one point my Mom said "You're doing a great job", and I can I just say, that was the best freakin' thing anyone could say to me right now.

I seem to remember I was writing a novel, once... What was it about? Was it good? I... think it was good. I remember thought. It was nice.

regina_of_york @ 1:22pm: Hippie vs. Goth


I love the look on her face--priceless!
http://wedinator.com/2009/10/24/little-hippie-cares-not-for-goth/

warren_ellis @ 11:02am: Scripts

People often ask me what comics scripts look like — or, at least, what my comics scripts look like, as there is no industry standard for comics scriptwriting. I have a few scripts up here on the site, and you’re welcome to download them. I write in OpenOffice and save in RTF. Beginning writers may find it instructive to compare the scripts with the published work.

(Please, don’t ask to be shown other scripts instead. These are the ones I have available. Okay?)

MINISTRY OF SPACE #1.

DESOLATION JONES #1.

DESOLATION JONES #7.

(Yes, JONES will be back one day.)

FELL #1.

(And so will FELL.)

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yagathai @ 12:38pm: Meet Oona


Right after her first bath.

warren_ellis @ 9:47am: At Whitechapel This Afternoon

At my shithole today:

* The MATT FRACTION Interrogation 2009 - comics writer Matt Fraction kindly taking questions from the proletariat

* REMAKE/REMODEL: Zero

* Whitechapel Radio Is On

* Warren’s Ancient Jukebox - fear

* Warren’s Work FAQ (Revised Nov 2009)

* Eliza Gauger’s SWEATSHOP

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chadu @ 10:14am: Camellia sinensis
So, over the past fortnight or so, I have been drinking tea. A lot more tea. A lot more tea than my usual daytime beverage of choice, coffee.

I've particularly started liking some herbal blends. . . Yogi Tea ones in particular: Berry DeTox, DeTox, and Bedtime (though this last has had spotty effects -- I had two double-strength mugs of it Sunday night, and I still pulled an inadvertent all-nighter; I had the same amount last night, and it knocked me on my ass).

Also, I like Tazo teas . . . especially Awake, Chai, and Zen.

Lastly, I think a visit to Teaism will happen Real Soon Now, for some good loose-leaf blends/varieties, as well as Salty Oat Cookies, Ginger Scones, and the Salmon Handroll Sushi Bento Box. YUM!

forthright @ 10:14am: Urgent request for computer help
My computer had serious virus fail yesterday (Security Tool malware) and now won't boot at all, not in regular mode, not in safe mode, nothing. It starts to load, then I get the BSOD and error messages, then it's hung up. Julia has a file on there that she needs urgently (like, today, ASAP). She doesn't need to fix the underlying problem, just get the one file onto a flash drive so she can work with it on another computer. I don't know anything about boot disks or any of this, really, except that it should be possible to find a way to make this work. Please comment on this post with any suggestions, or if you have Julia on Facebook or have her email, please contact her directly. Thanks.

ETA: Julia has managed to retrieve the file from an Ubuntu live CD (which I am also going to use to retrieve data onto an external HD tonight). Julia scanned the file she needed on her computer and it appears to be clean. Thanks so much to all for the advice!

kylecassidy @ 8:57am: Adventures make one late for dinner
lj app keeps eating my freaking text. I'm off to Washington dc to do A portrait at the us supreme court. You can follow along on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/finallykyle I don't think you have to have an account. It'll probably just be a bunch of iphonetography and then them making me check my phone at security. But who knows, it could be cool stuff. Now, lj app, please don't delete my text again.

ebenstone @ 11:53pm: Like A Moth To A Flame
Despite my best efforts and a solemn vow to let it lie for a little while, I cannot avoid the siren's call of Winter's Discord. I really wanted to shelf it for a while and work on Sisters of Khoda, but I can't find my footing on Khoda and find my mind wandering to Winter. Could be the weather (even though much of the story takes place in a warm climate)...maybe it's the idea that the marking period is over and multiple vacations loom, so I might have some writing time....maybe I keep feeling like I'm close on the story....I don't know. But she's calling for me, begging me to work on her again. I'll have it worked out in another day or so what my next course of action is. First I HAVE to get caught up on grading for the MP, then I'll make my decision.

A slight conundrum has presented itself. The story takes place on a southern continent....and they celebrate Yule at the start of Winter...that doesn't work. My only thought is a simple explanation that it's just reverse of our world. Plausible? It's such a weird thing to get hung up on!

queen_aleta @ 10:58pm: Faeriecon
Here is the first picture I've found of me from FaerieCon. I've just started making wands like the one in the picture. I had two of them for sale at the show plus a number of pendants.

ladytairngire @ 10:06pm: crushed ice is the new coffee
Today was no fun. However, I have friends who will pray for me before 7 in the morning and give me answers to crossword puzzles while I'm in the bathroom in a completely different part of the country. And I got well-wishes flying in all kinds of directions.

Thank you.


All is well.

forthright @ 9:49pm: Not a good day.
So far today we have had to:

a) Deal with a boy at 5:30am who is just sick enough to be unable to get back to sleep, but just healthy enough to not want to get back to sleep.
b) Deal with a really serious (as in, now my computer won't successfully boot even in safe mode, needs to go to the shop kind of serious) malware infection on my laptop that occupied much of my day.
c) Spend an hour or so combing the house for curtana's misplaced passport, so she could go to class.
d) Pick Arthur up from daycare to find him asleep, and with his cold worse than it had been in the morning, with all the attendant guilt (he has absolutely no fever though - it's just a cold, folks).

I'm all out of cope, seriously. It was supposed to be a relaxing research/work day. Don't the fates know I have deadlines coming up this week? Fortunately Monday nights are our nights to sit and stare at the TV from 10pm to midnight, so I've got 11 minutes to kill.

warren_ellis @ 5:03pm: The Lost Army

This, on the other hand, is amazing.

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.

Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.

"We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News…

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ladyxjade @ 6:42pm:
purchased mine and steve's tickets for the steampunk world's faire and booked a room. now i must plan what to make/wear.

warren_ellis @ 3:55pm: The Point Of Getting Excited

Matt Jones on his generation of the GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS graphic: the point of it, its brief history, and its new Creative Commons license. All of which just gives me an excuse to post it again:

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yagathai @ 3:35pm: In the last 24 hours I:

Got a new cat.
Had my phone die on me.
Had stitches put in.
Got into a car accident.

... in that order, so you'll note that the stitches came before the accident, not after.

All I want to do is sleep for a week, and maybe play a little Dragon Age.

ETA: I'm fine, I'm fine. Stressed and a bit sore, but well.

seanmoon @ 1:32pm: 5 Things Update, Some are Spheres, and Some are Spots Edition
1) Busy weekend: Friday train to boston, bus to Concord NH. Saturday drove to Exeter, picked up Penske truck, drove to Newmarket, unloaded nearly all the contents of my folks' giant storage locker, loaded 50% into penske truck (making it 100% full), and reloaded the rest into the storage locker--me being the only one who could lift much at all, K still being in NJ and my sister being willing to carry the other end of furniture but not boxes of books and suchlike 1-person jobs. Sunday drove from NH to NJ, unloaded the whole truck, and returned it to Penske

2) Scored some great stuff, to wit: a sleeper loveseat, an armchair, a desk, an armoire, a dresser, 3 oriental rugs of varying sizes from small to ridiculous; a set of shelves; a floor lamp; a sidetable; an enormous pub sign showing a White Hart chained; with a crown for a collar; and a coffin.

3) My sister and parents are now at my house, painting as far as I know. Cool! Also, nervous making. They're going to do a ton of work on the place, but it makes me crazy not to be there to approve or deny ideas. Leap of faith!

4) Thinking about starting a gaming blog. Got a lot of edits, playtests, and, potentially, actual games to talk about. Might be a thing. I'm guessing wordpress. In related gaming news, might be joining white wolf and shadowrun games I found on meetup.org. I own piles of whitewolf stuff, ordered a cheapish copy of Shadowrun on Friday. Woot!

5)Got a big project to finish up by Weds for Colonial Gothic, which could be tough with my folks here, and because I have to help K with her evaluations for her flunkies, due by Thursday. And I already have the next Colonial Gothic project to edit, and it's bigger--an actual book this time--the kind that comes out on paper and everything!

eac @ 10:28am: Head's up, parents with little ones.
MacLaren Stroller Recall: http://bit.ly/2hi4Kf

wickedthought @ 11:07am: Elopement
To elope, most literally, merely means to run away.^[1] More specifically, elopement is often used to refer to a marriage conducted in sudden and secretive fashion, usually involving hurried flight away from one's place of residence together with one's beloved with the intention of getting married.

-- Wikipedia

“You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.”

-- Oliver Goldsmith

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More news about Neoncon later, but for now, the important stuff.

On Saturday night, driving through Vegas, while looking for a liquor store with American Honey, mnight  and I drove by a neon sign that said, "Wedding Licenses." The hour was late but the sign was still on and across the street--directly across the street--was a chapel with drive thru service.

Twenty minutes later, we were married.

No photographers, no rings, no guests. We had Jimmy Buffett on the radio singing "Brown Eyed Girl" as a bit of coincidence. 

And so, ladies and gentlemen, Ro is now, officially, my ex-girlfriend.

warren_ellis @ 11:28am: The Mechanic Speaks

Ariana Osborne, designer of this place, SHIVERING SANDS, etc., talking about POD and the book, because:

…apparently, there’s a bunch of folks paying close attention to how Shivering Sands does so they can figure out if POD is “worth their time.”

And I have absolutely no fucking clue what that means, so I’ve just got to talk about it…

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warren_ellis @ 11:15am: flickrgeist 9nov09

1. Entrance to the Hotel Rivington, 2. prejuice, 3. New Hair, 4. New print: Honeydrip, 5. FA choker, 6. On final approach

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warren_ellis @ 10:11am: Zola Jesus: Store Open

THE SPOILS by Zola Jesus is one of my favourite albums of this year.  But it’s kind of hard to find on CD.  (The mp3 download is easy to find, I’ve even seen it on Amazon, and got mine at eMusic.)  But now there’s a store open at zolajesus.com, where you can buy it, her other records, and a t-shirt that I’m going to pick up for Lili.

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