Now and then I receive an email notification that someone has requested membership to one of the closed communities I mod. They're small groups; one could even call them exclusive, if one wanted to sound fancy pants special. Black tie only. Tut tut ( Read more... )

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Last month on Facebook Tokyopop founder Stu Levey announced "a new partnership with our friends at GeekChicDaily" where "the original TOKYOPOP magazine concept can be revived and refreshed -- rebooted actually -- in a much more modern, exciting, and accessible format." What that means exactly, I don't know, and apparently others weren't sure either ( Read more... )

I keep feeling I should move to Dreamwidth. I have an account but there's nothing to see there yet. It took me a while to even warm up to Livejournal after getting an account back in the day when you needed invite codes. What finally did it was a significant number of my online friends from other sites using LJ. But so far, not enough have switched ( Read more... )

The past week I've been playing with an enjoying Google Plus, aka G ( Read more... )

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This is a bit old, but think of it as well aged drama. It's the case of Jacqueline Howett, self published romance writer and 57 year old woman. BigAl of "BigAl's Books and Pals", a little known review site as far as I can tell, posted a review of Howett's The Greek Seaman -- commence pervy jokes. It's a brief review. ( Read more... )

It's back with a new Sasha's Lunchtime Interview with Very Important Dead People. Click for the full sized version.


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And snowballed from there.

Years back while headlesspuppet was investigating inking with a brush, we came across Kolinsky sable. People praised it, but the price was more than either of us were used to paying for one little brush. Yet we bought one, and she gave it a try, and boy was the difference noticeable. This led to experimenting with more brushes -- ( Read more... )

Aelita Andre has been called "a Russian abstract painter who has already been compared to Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Jackson Pollack. Art critics have praised her work for its use of the techniques of automatism and accidentalism, branches of surrealist art." I'm not so sure there's much intentional artistic expression behind her work beyond ( Read more... )

I totally Raptured.

But it was way too quiet and dull, so I came back.

Besides, I couldn't leave my houseguest behind.

And that is why I'm behind on the Internet again.

That is all.

P.S. Did you know the afterlife has Twitter? Srly.