From Twitter 10-30-2010

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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I love this time of year. It’s spooky stories, dress-up, and that first taste of frost and winter. For the ancients, it was time to cull and nestle in. For me, it’s time to tape plastic (or more) over the windows that don’t have enough glass in them not to let the heat out, consider resurrecting the furnace, celebrate a massive string of holidays, and put on any ridiculous combination of things that makes me happy.

Oh, and write/edit/submit everything I can before midnight tonight so that I can go hang with the local NaNoWriMo crowd and get an early start on my 1667 words for November.

Apparently my freezer loves this time of year as well, because when I went to get some ice cubes for a glass of water earlier this morning I found this:

So that’s fun.

I’m a bit further behind than I intended to be at this point, which I can blame entirely on Fallout: New Vegas. Or, rather, my desire to play Fallout: New Vegas more than is necessarily wise. The story is a bit less lush and linear than Dragon Age, and there are still some bugs, but it’s just about the most welcoming post-apocalyptic wasteland I could have asked for. Which, unfortunately, is super distracting.

Likewise distracting? The 50 lb dog trying desperately to climb into my lap while I work.

~*~

And now, some links so that I can pay more attention to the thing at hand (the writing, not the dog):

Missouri Republicans are sending out scare ads about candidate John Bullard because PROMO (our state LGBTQ advocacy organization) endorses him. Look, when five happy young gay men with a rainbow flag that says “PEACE” on it is supposed to be scary, I don’t even know what to say beyond “WTF?!”

My little geek heart nearly exploded at the news that Sylvester McCoy got tapped for a role in The Hobbit. This thing is turning into an ultimate fandom Katamari thing that will crush us with awesome. And I’m pretty much okay with that.

Fantasy and historical authors take note: hollow gourds are a totally brilliant place to store the blood of a slain monarch. Just saying. (Also, how much cooler is motherfucking decorative gourd season now? I’ll give you a hint. The answer is a lot. But not Alot.)

A volcano’s spiritual caretaker has died.

Reasons to repeal DOMA: same-sex marriages performed at the state level aren’t enough for the INS.

A useful article about blogging and remembering that the ENTIRE INTERNET is potentially your audience. Er. Hello.

You know those silicone elastic bands that are popular now? The ones that come shaped like dinosaurs or zoo animals or stars or whatever? They just got NSFW.

Sexism and the Internet, now in easy-to-swallow comic format!

TTA Press does an interesting breakdown of women in horror anthologies.

Because I haven’t got enough nerdy t-shirts: Doctor Who, Monopoly-style.

I need to staple this to my brain so I can re-read it every time I make a dumb mistake about race in fandom.

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