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Accountability: 135 packages left to send.
More to follow.
Trying to do at least 5 per day.
Asking people to wait more than six months is inexcusable. -
Stepping out of character for a moment.
I don't like to demand affection or demonstrativeness to be shown to me. I'd rather offer it to other people first, and if some of it comes back my way, that's nice, but not the be-all-and-end-all of my world. So I'm on the picky side when it comes to "love memes".
But I remember ljhugbox from a few years ago, and theun4givables reminded me of it today, and I'm just ( Read more... ) -
Raising dust
We have two booksignings this weekend ( Read more... ) -
Sucked dry by brain slugs.
I need to mine my norda journal again for more Rewind Project material. I remember writing about "Guantanamera" and cecropias, once upon a time. Not in the same entry. -
Imprinting on total strangers.
When last we entered my study to see what the Technomantically Prescient Bookshelves.... OF DOOOOM!!!! would manifest to me as "need to re-read, right now" offerings, I wanted a memoir, but my shelves outvoted me.
This time, they cooperated. They pushed out Craig Ferguson's AMERICAN ON PURPOSE, and it was the absolutely right thing to re-read ( Read more... ) -
His days like crazy paving.
The seemingly old man coughed as he emerged from his nest of piled-up newspapers and scavenged cardboard under the rotting footbridge. He blinked in vexation at watery sunlight stabbing painfully into his rheumy eyes. He hitched one shoulder higher than the other as he straightened from a crouch to what passed for a standing position ( Read more... ) -
A kindred spirit.
I've had this bookmarked ever since I found it two years ago, and it's appropriate for this blog and for this moment in time, not only because of National Poetry Month, but because Winter seems to be refusing to leave, and I want to stay huddled, like Owl, in front of a fireplace with a warm beverage.
Owl at Home consists of 5 stories featuring ( Read more... ) -
"Magus Perde, take your hand from off the chain...
...loose the wish to still the rain, the storm about to be... Here am I, voyager into life."
I've come to the realization that if I only post when I do something extraordinary, or if something extraordinary happens to me, I may never get to post at all here, other than LJI entries. And, fond as I am of therealljidol, it's not the be-all-and-end-all purpose of ( Read more... ) -
Ragamuffin majesty.
The QE2 nightclub in Albany, NY, housed in an old White Tower Hamburgers restaurant, not far from a building topped with a giant sculpture of "Nipper" the RCA Victrola dog, would have been my springboard for LJI Week 3's prompt "In Another Castle". But time is not on my side this week, so I'm taking a bye. See therealljidol for more details ( Read more... ) -
Vintage mayhem.
More than a decade ago, some of my compatriots from the Delphi Forums and their later incarnations at Beehive created a random generator called THEY FIGHT CRIME. Alas, it's gone now ( Read more... )