Today my sister gushed about her daughter's academic prowess. Easy A's, gets achievement awards, etc. Also, she dislikes the spotlight -an impediment for someone aspiring to be an actress - and doesn't talk about her academic prowess. Recently she got an award that most of the other kids thought would go to a prominently intellectual boy, including ( Read more... )

Backstory: I'd been playing drums for my extremely liberal church until the end of 2012. I add that qualifier so you'll known they're as far from Biblethumpers as a church can be. I quit at the end of the year because it had never been a joy or a pleasure, but a duty, and it became just another source of stress that I've been trying to shed. Sounds ( Read more... )

Dateline: Saturday

I've got a Golden TIiiiicket for Creation's Grand Slam.
( This S*** Just Got Real )

Dateline: Friday

I've got a Golden Tiiiiicket for Creation's "Grand Slam" con.

( Now see if it did me any good! )

Learning is FUNdamental!

Today's lesson is that my Blogspot stats are probably lying liars that lie. Today I learned about Referral Spam, aka "traffic sources" that hit your page and cause false page hits. They waaants you to click them and... have malware installed, or something. So not as many folks are reading it as I'd thought, if any are at ( Read more... )

When I'm not navel-gazing, I'm imitating the mechanized standup of Jay Sherman from The Critic, who -- you know, just click the link. It's only eight seconds, for goodness' sake. Done? Good! Except my version of the video is me chanting "Read my stories ( Read more... )

Game of Thrones mash-up cover

I've never seen the show whose theme song is being covered. I have TV, not HBO. The more stressed I am, the more times I listen to it. Going on 5 now. I'll listen a few more times before logging off!

Not sure when this will be finished - or started, for that matter - but here's a scene I've got to include somewhere in that story. The title might end up changing, too.

If you haven't read any of the other PP stories, here's the least you should know:
--Princess Mara Mouseheart is in the world of Girl Genius--She's reluctantly accepting that she' ( Read more... )

Here's Part 8.

I'm so long-winded, even my fanfictions have chapters!!

The story so far...!
-That possible plotpoint that readers of fanfiction everywhere dread most... was confirmed. Sorry. Sorry ( Read more... )

Here's Part 10.

I'm so long-winded, even my fanfictions have chapters ( Read more... )