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Because livejournal has become my facebook dumping ground/practice?
Something I was going to post on facebook but did not:
Why is Rolling Stone (a mag which I enjoy/am amused by at certain times) prancing Lil' Wayne's impending incarceration on gun possession across their cover?...Then again I am the dude who jigs out to Scissor Sisters and Adam Lambert...
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Writing, reading amidst the snow
One story for the Clarion workshop submit is coming along pretty well-I'm just not quite sure how it's going to end yet. The other was giving me oodles of dead ends, and I was contemplating dropping it by Monday and trying to work on another back burner idea, but I can tenuously (or jinxing?) say that some new ideas popped up today and it might be ( Read more... ) -
Workshop?, Geek Heaven
Working on polishing and making as amazing as possible, two stories for a submission to the Clarion workshop (one of the premier writing workshops for fantasy/science fiction in the country) for this summer. Though it's very iffy as to whether I can take 5 straight weeks off of work for it. And of course it's 50/50 as to whether I would even be ( Read more... ) -
Potter's House Sounds of Hope show
Went to the Sounds of Hope show at Potter's House last night-Tom Goss; an African drumming circle with people from The Young Women's Drumming Empowerment Project and Michael Kiweku Owusu, who runs a group in Ghana that teaches street kids drumming, construction od drums, and helps with literacy and HIV issues; Reginald Black, a poet from Street ( Read more... ) -
Movie trailers
Iron Man 2
Looks really cool. And they made Whiplash into a badass!
And I thought Pirates of the Caribbean 3 was the most un-subtle movie ever. Ladies and Gents: Clash of the Titans
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On and off the soap box.
I'm quite happy that the same sex marriage bill has been passed in DC. It's great whenever it passes in yet another state, but this time, it's on my home turf :) Except I am in MD, not DC. whatever. Just hoping the threat by the DC Catholic Archdiocese to cut social programs (food charities, homeless programs, etc.) is an empty threat. To sever ( Read more... ) -
Shriek and Finch
I just finished Shriek last night and am starting Finch tonight; the author of both, Jeff Vandermeer, is pretty much a genius. I couldn't figure out, as much as I loved the closing pages of Shriek, what else I was feeling about it, until this morning: sadness at the ambiguity of things at the end. Not that I wanted a tied up with a bow ending, but ( Read more... ) -
Wedding!
My younger cousin (by one year) got married last Friday; it was a great day, beautiful ceremony (aside from that priest..ask me in person..), wonderful family togetherness [and family togetherness making us all a little bit nuts ;) ], I learned I LOVE raw clams and oysters, and we're all crazy jealous of my cousin and his wife honeymooning in ( Read more... ) -
Behind the times...
Oddly last night as I was falling asleep, I thought about this contest I debated entering, for first fiction by a gay male author, last year. Ultimately I decided not to as my writing ideas were stagnant at the time. Now, I just found out the winner of that contest was Kirk Read, who wrote an awesome memoir that I read..I think between the summer ( Read more... )
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