and we watch them fall
Mar. 15th, 2012 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishBecause posting to DW is easy, even when other writing is hard, and because it's even easier when someone tells me what to post about.
(a very funny comic that bears no relation to anything, except maybe the title of this post)
"Comment to this post and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself."
(viarebelsheart)
Koala
I saw what may have been my first koalas when I visiteddarkfyre_muse in San Diego some years back. They look like animatronics: short fur, beady eyes, and slow movement at stiff joints.
Self-Publishing
God, no. Self-publishing requires that I take on the responsibility for not just writing, but also editing, copyediting, formatting, distributing, and (the real kicker) promoting, my words. I'd rather just write the stuff and pay someone else to do the hard part.
Ask me again in five years and you might get a different answer.
The City of Many Faces
She said, "They're all the same, really."
After that Nicholas was lost. He could no longer see his fellow city-dwellers as individuals; there was only a mass of bodies, moving like the tide. When at last he let go and became one of them, he felt more relief than resignation.
(I don't think I've ever committed nanofic before. Huh.)
Marriage
I'm opposed in principle. I get twitchy at the thought of a relationship that's legally prohibited from being dissolved, and as a fairly private individual I don't feel a need to stand up and declare "yes i am in a state- and community-sanctioned relationship with this other person."
Satyrdays
Many moons ago George Alec Effinger wrote a very funny book called The Zork Chronicles, loosely inspired by the computer game trilogy. It introduced me to Effinger's work, Lord Raglan's twenty-two point hero scale, and a number of extremely bad puns. Among the latter was a newspaper one character was reading entitled The Satyrday Evening Post.
Your Favorite Bad Book
Er. I suppose I'm indebted to The Sword of Shannara for more or less launching the doorstop-fantasy genre, and also for providing Peter Beagle with a great story.
Contact Juggling
The thing about contact juggling is that it's slow and tedious to learn. With regular juggling, you practice for a month or two, and you can do a clumsy three-ball cascade and all your friends are impressed. With contact juggling, you practice for a month or two, and you can do... a clumsy butterfly transfer (palm-to-back). Woo.
(a very funny comic that bears no relation to anything, except maybe the title of this post)
"Comment to this post and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself."
(via
rebelsheart)Koala
I saw what may have been my first koalas when I visited
darkfyre_muse in San Diego some years back. They look like animatronics: short fur, beady eyes, and slow movement at stiff joints.Self-Publishing
God, no. Self-publishing requires that I take on the responsibility for not just writing, but also editing, copyediting, formatting, distributing, and (the real kicker) promoting, my words. I'd rather just write the stuff and pay someone else to do the hard part.
Ask me again in five years and you might get a different answer.
The City of Many Faces
She said, "They're all the same, really."
After that Nicholas was lost. He could no longer see his fellow city-dwellers as individuals; there was only a mass of bodies, moving like the tide. When at last he let go and became one of them, he felt more relief than resignation.
(I don't think I've ever committed nanofic before. Huh.)
Marriage
I'm opposed in principle. I get twitchy at the thought of a relationship that's legally prohibited from being dissolved, and as a fairly private individual I don't feel a need to stand up and declare "yes i am in a state- and community-sanctioned relationship with this other person."
Satyrdays
Many moons ago George Alec Effinger wrote a very funny book called The Zork Chronicles, loosely inspired by the computer game trilogy. It introduced me to Effinger's work, Lord Raglan's twenty-two point hero scale, and a number of extremely bad puns. Among the latter was a newspaper one character was reading entitled The Satyrday Evening Post.
Your Favorite Bad Book
Er. I suppose I'm indebted to The Sword of Shannara for more or less launching the doorstop-fantasy genre, and also for providing Peter Beagle with a great story.
Contact Juggling
The thing about contact juggling is that it's slow and tedious to learn. With regular juggling, you practice for a month or two, and you can do a clumsy three-ball cascade and all your friends are impressed. With contact juggling, you practice for a month or two, and you can do... a clumsy butterfly transfer (palm-to-back). Woo.
The City of Many Faces
Date: 2012-03-15 11:13 pm (UTC)Re: The City of Many Faces
Date: 2012-03-16 12:10 am (UTC)(*blink* Chicago? Portland, maybe?)
Re: The City of Many Faces
Date: 2012-03-16 01:03 am (UTC)Re: The City of Many Faces
Date: 2012-03-16 04:19 pm (UTC)Re: The City of Many Faces
Date: 2012-03-16 04:38 pm (UTC)