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Nov. 4th, 2011 03:33 pmeven They-Call-Him-Tuonela can't resist Thai food, though he thinks shitty black metal is better than Thai shoegaze or anything else out of Thailand. Compare หิ่งห้อย or My Scarlet Arms (Gramaphone Children* Remix) or Hate Me with... I don't know, that song my friend described as being a cover of the music of Bokusuka Wars with some shitty fuhreriffic lyrics. Plus Thailand has super-adorable kitties!
*sic
For Andy kind of reminds me of Ava. The band, not the ruined Burmese city or any of the many people with that name or the ethnic group.
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Someone drove into a bunch of Hell's Angels and all I can think is "Fuck yeah! Take that, Hell's Angels!"
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1988 is oldies now. Jeesh. Well, I guess if Sleepwalk was considered an oldie when I was born...
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32 inches of snow in Peru (Massachusetts, not South America, for those of you not in the know) and Florida (town, not state) from that storm a week ago. I always thought (come to think of it, no snow has fallen where I am yet) the first snow was always a transient and fleeting and almost romantic thing, but maybe not. Every year, it arrives earlier and earlier.
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There's an African grey parrot at the wildlife center, and everyone's wondering why nobody's picking up the phone, and that's because it's not, it's the parrot mimicking the phone.
Penelope saw one of the interns making food for the squirrels and went over towards it. Then once we got the goats to their pen, I gave the raspberry to Penelope and she didn't even want it.
I got into a conversation about how pet rats are affectionate because they've lived alongside humans for thousands of years and they're omnivores, unlike, say, a gerbil, which is a prey animal, and like dogs, which hang around human campsites for scraps and cats, which hung around human settlements and ate pest animals. And I'm wondering how horses and humans first began to interact. Does anyone know the answer?
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Comrades! I implore ye to listen to the band The Zebra Project and increase their google rank so we can defeat the great enemy: the far-right blogosphere! How good are they? Who cares? Just listen to them and increase their google ranking. Defeat blogofascism.
The Zebra Project is from Boston. That's worth something.
Listen to the Zebra Project, or even just click on the link and distribute it to as many places as you can! Defeat blogofascism!
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30 days of nanowrimo thing!
Day 1 - Have you participated in NaNoWriMo before? If so, which years and what end result? If not (or even if so, for that matter), what’s your connection to writing? Why do you want to participate this year?
I did. I only had enough material for not even a short story, but this time I know what I want to do. Also, I had a headache last year.
Day 2 - What’s the title of your story? Why did you choose the name you did?
Revolution of Flowers, because of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia and Lotus Revolution in Egypt and the other floral names for revolutions (Carnation in Portugal, Rose Revolution in Georgia, Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan)
Day 3 - Pick one of your female characters. Introduce your readers to her, from her point of view and her words only.
"My name's Natalia Remenyi. That's not an easy surname to admit to having, but I'm stuck with it. I'm Selinian, but I was raised in Tarhuntassa by Nevdashti. My parents are dead. No pity from me. They knew what they were doing when they tried to colonize Tarhuntassa for Selinian Nation, and they got themselves killed for their irredentism nonsense. I'm the poster child for being the child of settlers and completely rejecting everything they stand for. I'm Sufi, not that esoteric fascism nonsensical attempt to turn a political movement into a religion. I barely speak Selinian and when I do, I have a thick Nevdashti accent. I don't want to be around the colonists. They have no need to be here. They're losing millions of people in the war, and there's enough space for them in their own territory."
Day 4 - What genre is your novel? Why did you pick it?
Mundane fantastic.
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Burning question: Is the Lion King set during the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene?
*sic
For Andy kind of reminds me of Ava. The band, not the ruined Burmese city or any of the many people with that name or the ethnic group.
*
Someone drove into a bunch of Hell's Angels and all I can think is "Fuck yeah! Take that, Hell's Angels!"
*
1988 is oldies now. Jeesh. Well, I guess if Sleepwalk was considered an oldie when I was born...
*
32 inches of snow in Peru (Massachusetts, not South America, for those of you not in the know) and Florida (town, not state) from that storm a week ago. I always thought (come to think of it, no snow has fallen where I am yet) the first snow was always a transient and fleeting and almost romantic thing, but maybe not. Every year, it arrives earlier and earlier.
*
There's an African grey parrot at the wildlife center, and everyone's wondering why nobody's picking up the phone, and that's because it's not, it's the parrot mimicking the phone.
Penelope saw one of the interns making food for the squirrels and went over towards it. Then once we got the goats to their pen, I gave the raspberry to Penelope and she didn't even want it.
I got into a conversation about how pet rats are affectionate because they've lived alongside humans for thousands of years and they're omnivores, unlike, say, a gerbil, which is a prey animal, and like dogs, which hang around human campsites for scraps and cats, which hung around human settlements and ate pest animals. And I'm wondering how horses and humans first began to interact. Does anyone know the answer?
*
Comrades! I implore ye to listen to the band The Zebra Project and increase their google rank so we can defeat the great enemy: the far-right blogosphere! How good are they? Who cares? Just listen to them and increase their google ranking. Defeat blogofascism.
The Zebra Project is from Boston. That's worth something.
Listen to the Zebra Project, or even just click on the link and distribute it to as many places as you can! Defeat blogofascism!
***
30 days of nanowrimo thing!
Day 1 - Have you participated in NaNoWriMo before? If so, which years and what end result? If not (or even if so, for that matter), what’s your connection to writing? Why do you want to participate this year?
I did. I only had enough material for not even a short story, but this time I know what I want to do. Also, I had a headache last year.
Day 2 - What’s the title of your story? Why did you choose the name you did?
Revolution of Flowers, because of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia and Lotus Revolution in Egypt and the other floral names for revolutions (Carnation in Portugal, Rose Revolution in Georgia, Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan)
Day 3 - Pick one of your female characters. Introduce your readers to her, from her point of view and her words only.
"My name's Natalia Remenyi. That's not an easy surname to admit to having, but I'm stuck with it. I'm Selinian, but I was raised in Tarhuntassa by Nevdashti. My parents are dead. No pity from me. They knew what they were doing when they tried to colonize Tarhuntassa for Selinian Nation, and they got themselves killed for their irredentism nonsense. I'm the poster child for being the child of settlers and completely rejecting everything they stand for. I'm Sufi, not that esoteric fascism nonsensical attempt to turn a political movement into a religion. I barely speak Selinian and when I do, I have a thick Nevdashti accent. I don't want to be around the colonists. They have no need to be here. They're losing millions of people in the war, and there's enough space for them in their own territory."
Day 4 - What genre is your novel? Why did you pick it?
Mundane fantastic.
***
Burning question: Is the Lion King set during the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene?
