Drowning Nor Waving

kafkonia 10:05 pm: Maybe I'm old fashioned, but some of these things make me say "No, I will not be tolerant and accepting of your alternate lifestyle. You need psychiatric help."
kafkonia 10:05 pm: But then I worry I might wake up one day and find I've joined the Westboro Baptist Church.
kafkonia 10:05 pm: (We have a neighbourhood in Ottawa called Westboro... I have never investigated what churches are present.)
beatriceeagle 10:07 pm: I think as long as you accept someone, you've got one up on the WBC.
kafkonia 10:07 pm: heh
katallen 10:08 pm: I believe the WBC are moderately tolerant of each other.
kafkonia 10:08 pm: There appears to be only a Unitarian Church in our Westboro.
cristalia 10:08 pm: Isn't it standard assumption now that the WBC aren't bigots, they're trolls?
kafkonia 10:08 pm: And I don't think the Westboro Unitarian Church would be quite the same.
cristalia 10:08 pm: Oh man, although now I want to start it.
kafkonia 10:09 pm: "We hate everyone, except all the people we tolerate."
beatriceeagle 10:09 pm: I think that if you act like a bigot all the time, it doesn't much matter.
beatriceeagle 10:09 pm: Ha!
cristalia 10:09 pm: You picket funerals with signs like "We accept your lifestyle and welcome your friendship."
beatriceeagle 10:09 pm: "We're sorry for your loss."
kafkonia 10:09 pm: "And those we accept."
kafkonia 10:09 pm: "But other than that -- WATCH OUT!"
cristalia 10:09 pm: "Can we get you anything? Drink? Cookie?"

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In other news that is not about shit-disturbing on the Internet, today's e-mail has brought both a copyedited manuscript and an ISBN for Above. I give back the CEM next week, but the ISBN I may keep.

The new issue of Ideomancer is up, with fiction from returning author Sandra Odell, Emily Skaftun, and Su-Yee Lin; book reviews aplenty; and three poems from and an interview with our first featured poet in a while, Mari Ness.

Also, Chilling Tales has hit its Canadian release date and is available for those of you in the Canadas (if you are in the Americas or the UKs, you have to wait longer. Sorry.) This is the anthology that "Stay" is in, alongside a lot of very, very, very good Canadian horror writers. We are launching it at the bookstore in two weeks' time.

Aside from that? It is cold, and I am terrifically busy, although most of it is good busy.

I am ready, I think, for winter to be done now.

matociquala (9:54:21 PM): Nope. There is no fucking joy in Mudville.
cristalia (9:54:34 PM): If they'd named it IceCreamSodaVille they might have had a better shot.
matociquala (9:56:15 PM): mmm, ice cream soda.
cristalia (9:57:32 PM): My choice of metaphor may be indicating that I need a snack.
cristalia (9:57:41 PM): Also, the way I almost just typed "meatphor".

stillsostrange (9:02:00 PM): I need to make a Mage character tonight.
stillsostrange (9:02:12 PM): I am being virtupus and not recycling a novel character.
cristalia (9:02:19 PM): Heh.
stillsostrange (9:02:27 PM): Virtupus is hard.

stillsostrange (9:09:37 PM): What kind of mage do I want to play?
tanaise (9:09:47 PM): A grue mage.
stillsostrange (9:10:09 PM): Better yet, which fictional character of someone else's do I want to steal?
cristalia (9:10:25 PM): A grue mage would be awesome.
cristalia (9:10:30 PM): You would just eat everything in the way.
cristalia (9:10:36 PM): *...is perhaps already a grue mage*
stillsostrange (9:10:42 PM): First I would cast darkness.
cristalia (9:10:46 PM): Oh right, of course.
stillsostrange (9:10:46 PM): Then I would eat everything in it.

1) Place into Google the name of your favourite hockey team + "slash". No, I will not tell you in what context we actually did this. Let's say we were running a Rule 34 test.

2) Realize that all the results are about slashing penalties.

3) Read headlines.

4) Laugh your ass off.


Right now my favourites are: "Sharks slash dead-tired Canucks from all sides" (!) and: "The league is reviewing Dany Heatley's slash to see if it warrants a suspension."

Oh, I think it does. I think it does. :D

(And that's Evil Sexy LeonardCon, not English as a second language.)

cristalia: Okay, so I've pared down my list of concerts to see before I die: NIN and that's next month, the Tragically Hip, and Tom Waits. But Tom'll be hard. He doesn't tour much.
matociquala: He's the endboss.

katallen (11:54:23 PM): You know, I really wish people would stop using phrases like Darwin in action... Darwin really wasn't a particularly murderous person.
cristalia (11:54:30 PM): Action Darwin!
cristalia (11:54:36 PM): With kung fu monograph grip!
matociquala (11:54:45 PM): with kung fu evolution gr--
matociquala (11:54:49 PM): ahem
cristalia (11:54:53 PM): hee.
kafkonia (11:55:01 PM): Kung fu opposable thumb?
cristalia (11:55:12 PM): WATCH Action Darwin give papers to naturalist societies!
cristalia (11:55:29 PM): SAIL Action Darwin with the HMS Beagle playset!
katallen (11:55:34 PM): WATCH Action Darwin take decades to make his mind up to publish!
cristalia (11:55:50 PM): GROOM Action Darwin's copious beard!
kafkonia (11:56:09 PM): Also available: Action Darwin's Galapagos Tortoise! Limited edition!
cristalia (11:56:21 PM): (tortoise not to scale.)


kafkonia (12:01:39 AM): (Action Darwin is not suitable for children under 5 or creationists.)

November 29, 2008 Progress Notes:

"Sugar"

Words today: 550.
Words total: 3500.
Reason for stopping: It's late. Again.

Books in progress: Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep; Robert Graves, The Long Week-end.
The glamour: Worked a signing at the bookstore, promptly introvert-fitted, and came home.

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Reading for The Enchanted Generation continues apace. I spent a good chunk of last night and some of tonight reading buckets of WWI poetry to pick out epigraphs for each section, and have, I think, more than I can actually use. There is a terrible embarrasment of riches there, which is just serving to further convince me that WWI was actually the Worst War Ever. In summary:

cristalia (11:56:07 PM): It is good for me that WWI veterans were all into poetry and not, say, peggle.
matociquala (11:56:59 PM): heee
matociquala (11:57:10 PM): I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by popcap.
cristalia (11:58:33 PM): (bloated hysterical naked, wedging themselves in their office chairs at dawn, looking for an angry fix)

I may actually make a filter on which to babble about my TEG research stuff. If that happens and you care to hear me natter on upon said filter, speak now.

And tomorrow is the annual trip to the craft show, so I am crawling off to bed.

jmeadows (7:34:59 PM): *destroys bad writing*
cristalia (7:35:13 PM): *manuscripts worldwide suddenly burst into flame*
cristalia (7:35:19 PM): *author shock!*
jmeadows (7:35:23 PM): *spits coffee*
stillnotbored (7:35:32 PM): *wails of anguish*
cristalia (7:35:45 PM): *wholesale conflagration in entire bookstore departments*
stillnotbored (7:36:12 PM): *manga sales skyrocket*
cristalia (7:36:28 PM): *at least, those that aren't on fire*
jmeadows (7:36:54 PM): *has THIS MUCH chatloff*
stillnotbored (7:36:55 PM): *urban fantasy becomes extinct in a day*
cristalia (7:37:37 PM): *surviving in-print authors wander a postapocalyptic wilderness, shivving each other for tinned food and readership*
stillnotbored (7:38:07 PM): *agents become warlords, ruling small bands of followers*
matociquala (7:38:20 PM): So how is this an alternate reality?