Happy birthday to telynor, a dear friend whose worth I cannot even calculate.
Have a great time in Florida, G. We’ll be looking forward to seeing you home when you return!
So, I haven’t posted any quizzy stuff in a long, long time. The reason for this is rather idiosyncratic. See, I like to do two things with quizzes. One of them is that I like to save them up and post them in a group, rather than waste everyone’s time with them as I do them. The other thing is that I like to save the images to my own webspace, because I don’t trust them not to go away and I prefer that anything I post here is going to be lasting. Since my webspace had been down for a while, I had been accumulating these with no ability to move the images to my server and thus I didn’t want to post them.
Well, my webserver is back up, and so here is a bunch o’ quizziness just for you.
One of the Usenet newsgroups I still bother to keep up with is rec.arts.comics.strips. Today, one of the regulars posted a message about a comic he was working on. It’s still a work in progress, but he wanted people who appeciated the form to take a look and give him feedback, good or bad.
So I went to take a look.
Mom’s Cancer will not amuse you. It may not even entertain you. But it will affect you. The author, who is preferring to stay semi-anonymous for obvious reasons, has crafted an intimate, frank, and touching portrayal of what he and his family have gone through during the course of his mother’s treatment for incurable lung cancer.
It is a work-in-progress. It doesn’t yet have an ending. But in the space of time it took me to read the installments to date, I have come to know these people, to care for them, to worry about their outcome. I want to know what happens next. I need to know how the story continues.
This is undistilled Good Stuff. Read it. It’s worth the trip.
As I travel through life (For the road is long,and there is yet far to go) I cannot help but think in amazement and wonder how lucky I am that you are walking beside me.
Happy birthday to my love, my sweetheart, my partner, kitanzi
1.Go into your LJ’s archives.
2.Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3.Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4.Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions
The $8,700 statue, based on the simple toy which involves sticking plastic
arms, feet and facial parts into a potato, has now been banished to a
children’s playground and will later be put in a nearby “Wild West” theme
park.
Invent a memory of me and post it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it’s something that’s never happened. Then, of course, post this to your journal and see what people would like to remember of you, only the universe failed to cooperate in making it happen so they had to make it up instead.
This should be all sorts of fun!
After all the fun of having maebdh7 all to ourselves for a week (more about which later), we’ve had a pretty quiet weekend to rest and relax.
Saturday was about as lazy a day as you can have while actually getting out of bed. kitanzi did grocery shopping, while I did much of nothing around the house. Later, we went for a walk, and watched some TV. (An episode of Blackadder 3 and the special “pilot” episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.) The QEftSG episode was especially fun, as you got to look back at the prototype and see the familiar shtick in its embryonic form.
Today, I got up early, then collapsed again for a 4 hour nap. I guess I was more tired than I thought. We did manage to get out of the house long enough for me to shop for a new pair of shoes (aside to maedbh7: no, really, actual shoes) and browse the bargain books at Barnes & Noble.
Haven’t updated book progress lately because, honestly, I hadn’t been reading that much the last two weeks, between a couple of projects I was working on and maedbh7‘s visit, but I have gotten through a couple of books since last time I reported.
- War For The Oaks by Emma Bull
Every now and then, you just want to go back to a favourite, and this is easily one of my favourite books ever written, ever ever. I’m a big fan of all of Bull’s work: she has a great ear for dialogue, and crafts characters who are so real I feel like I know them. I’ve probably read WftO a dozen times, and it still feels fresh and new each time. If you’re a fan of “modern world fantasy”, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
- Zen And the Art of Travel by Eric Chaline
When making plans for tourism and trips, I always warn people that I’m a “Zen tourist”. I don’t like scheduling myself overmuch, preferring to following the path in front of me and seeing where it goes. So when kitanzi saw this book, she couldn’t resist getting it for me. I had expected it to be just a collection of Zen quotes and pretty pictures, but the book was evenly divided between said pictures and quotes, travel stories, and practical tips for traveling to odd and remote places. A wonderful, fascinating little book that took me twice as long to read as I anticipated, and left me feeling much richer (and with an itching desire to go somewhere) than when I started.
autographedcat: So, would “Goddesses’ Bodices” be a good name for a band?
kitanzi: I dunno, but it’d be a great name for a lingerie store!