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[Sep. 1st, 2006|10:55 pm] |
The Veteran
You scored 90%!
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You've picked up the majority of the classic rock basics. You probably
have a classic rock collection and can sing along with most of the
songs on your local radio station.
This is not the highest score, but it is arguably the best: that subtle combination of impressive knowledge and not being a pretentious geek.
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 99% on notes |
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| Well... |
[Sep. 24th, 2005|07:41 pm] |
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...I decided to go with Blogger for the main blog. I'll keep this one around so I can keep commenting on all your guys' journals. Anyway, just useless FYI. Hope everyone's enjoying their Saturday! |
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| bloglost |
[Sep. 15th, 2005|06:48 pm] |
Well, since I never backed up my index or template for the Blue Lemur blog, it looks like it's gone. I can still access the control panel, so all those posts can be retrieved, and copied elsewhere.
I'm just not sure if I should use this as my main blog again, upgrade it to a paid account, use my inactive blogger account, or go somewhere else. Yes, this subject is fascinating only to me! Anyway, I'll make a decision this weekend.
Not much going on, aside from having a sort of tough day at work, but that's just the way it goes. |
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| Not too shabby... |
[Sep. 10th, 2005|10:52 pm] |
Cary Grant
You scored 16% Tough, 19% Roguish, 33% Friendly, and 33% Charming! |
You are the epitome of charm and style, the smooth operator who steals
the show with your sophisticated wit, quiet confidence and flirty sense
of humor. You are able to catch any woman you want just by flashing
that disarming smile, even if you're flashing it at a kindly aunt or
engaging child at the time. When you walk into a room, women are
instantly intrigued and even the men are impressed, but you're too nice
a guy to steal anyone else's girl...unless the guy deserves it. You're
stylish, yes, but you can also be a little bit nutty. However, you're
primarily seen as dashing, suave and romantic. Your co-stars include
Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly, stylish women with
a sense of fun.
Find out what kind of classic dame you'd make by taking the
Classic Dames Test.
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 22% on Tough | | You scored higher than 54% on Roguish | | You scored higher than 63% on Friendly | | You scored higher than 61% on Charming |
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| Relief Meme |
[Sep. 10th, 2005|01:00 pm] |
Just got this info from the marvelous and talented ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mkhobson, where uppityliberal will donate $5 to Red Cross Hurricane Relief for everyone linking to the journal. (It was originally another done by dude, but he got all the pledges he needed, so Uppity Liberal is taking up the slack.)
Just link to him, then comment in his post that you linked:
Here |
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| Um, blog down again? |
[Sep. 9th, 2005|05:59 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Garbage, "Happy Home," Bleed Like Me | ] |
Looks like the Blue Lemur domain got attacked by "black hat" hackers, and my main blog may be finito. Not sure what course of action to take now. I like the livejournal platform, especially since it's exploded in popularity around the time I actually stopped using it regularly. lol. But I also like having vertical links in the Typepad-y, Blogger-y sort of way. If it really is hosed, I'll have to let a bunch of folks know to de-link....
Anyway, I'm mainly revising a major project right now, a labor of love. I hope to have it done very soon. Aiming for Sunday. While I've been revising, I've been listening to the new Garbage album, Bleed Like Me like all the damn time. The album helped me reclaim my love for the band, and seeing them in concert last Saturday turned it into a raging exercise in obsession. Seriously, the album fraking blisters and they were absolutely incredible in concert, playing my anthem, "Only Happen When It Rains" so I got to headbang for the first time in, oh, a decade.
Eh, but then this is all just idle talk. Life is going well for a person when the only thing you've lost is a freaking blog. I've been indebted to folks like my homeboy douglain for his coverage of the hurricane aftermath. I donated some money, and will donate some books, but there's that middle-class guilt. Lucius Shepard wrote this really beautiful and shattering passage about how the hurricane just exposes the truth about this society: Here
I mean, that just about says it all. That sort of encapsulates why I've always had a hard time blogging: what do I have to complain about? I mean, I may get pissed about having to work for someone else, doing something I don't really want to do and not even get paid holidays, but so fucking what? A family just lost their house and their city. Before the hurricane hit, I blogged about a woman in town, Lisa Shannon, and how she was trying to raise awareness about the genocide in the Congo. 4 million people dead in 6 years. My insignifcant crap pales next to that. So I don't know. Not having a full online "home" is probably a good thing for a bit. I'm just sorry for all of you in the Southeast. It sounds so fucking lame, but my thoughts really are with you, and you have my eternal admiration for weathering this. You're true heroes and heroines. |
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| Blog down! Blog down! |
[Jun. 26th, 2005|03:42 pm] |
| [ | mood |
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| | the dulcet white noise of traffic | ] |
Hmm, something is wrong with ye olde Blue Lemur site. 'Tis showing an error page. If this becomes a terminal condition, I'll have to migrate back to livejournal, or use my dormant blogspot site. I've been thinking about "going dark" for awhile anyway. For a lot of reasons, which I'll go into (lucky you!!) later on, when or if Blue Lemur comes back.
I'll update Doug-style:
Writing: I have a good rough ten pages/3,000 words done on a new story. I cut 1600 words out of the story I used to call Story 5, and which is titled, "And if it harm none ..." I'm also working on one of them funny mimetic-style story dealymabobbers. Yes though I have no trace of Southern to my accent at all, I sometimes like to say dealymabobber like a true Oklahoman.
Wedding: We met with our planner today, and for me, the wedding is transmogrifying from frightening and nervewracking to fun and exciting.
Work: After a blissful week of showing up to work and not actually having a lot of stuff to do (my bosses were on vacation), things will return to their usual nose + grindstone. Or as nose + grindstone as one can get in the land of business consulting.
Etc.: I'm becoming enamored of modern architecture, and acquiring a taste for shows like 'Househunters.' It must be dementia.
Hope all the rest of you are having a good Sunday! |
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| *blows dust off LJ* |
[May. 13th, 2005|10:49 pm] |
Well it's obviously been awhile since I wrote in this journal. And I've had quite a few additions to Ye Olde Friends List (TM). So I wave to you all!
My main journal will remain this weblog ... but I'll use this one from time to time.
In reading news, I'm about a hundred pages into William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties, and enjoying it greatly. In writing news, still working on the novel mentioned in past entries, and some new stories. Onward, and upward! |
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| there and back again |
[Sep. 20th, 2004|08:14 am] |
I went home to Oklahoma for a couple of weeks to see my sister get married, but I'm back now. It was a lot of fun, but I'm still a bit tired from it.
I bought, and read Caitlin Kiernan's new novel, Murder of Angels while there.
I know Ben is not a huge fan of her previous work, but I think Angela and Peter would dig the book. Her prose style is excellent, and she knows how to construct a plot. I'm trying not to say too many "reviewy" things about it, because I'm mulling writing a review of it. But suffice to say, I recommend it highly.
All is well on this end. Just need to write more, and pick a new book to read.... |
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| Sinuses and the Olympics and Et cetera |
[Aug. 21st, 2004|01:44 pm] |
I had thought I would escape the summer without my sinuses acting up, but they got me in the middle of last week, and I've been battling them ever since. I feel a little better today, but even sleeping for twelve hours didn't knock 'em out. Hopefully this is the last day of 'em.
Sara is a big Olympics fan, so we've been watching them a lot. I've always been a less-than-casual fan, but we've seen all the women's gymnastics, which was cool. Too bad the mighty Khorkina didn't get her Olympic gold. She's watching basketball now for some ungodsly reason.
I've sent out a lot of subs lately, and am close to finishing work on "The Last Dangerous Man." Just working on logic and motivation stuff now.
Sometime today should see the debut of my essay/con report on IROSF. Also the auction on the THX Star Wars set will end.
Nerd drama!!!!!
And I also clicked the "Buy It Now" on a signed greygirlbeast book (THRESHOLD) so I'll be getting the money order sent out for that on Monday. I couldn't find a new copy of it at my usual haunts (Powells, Clarkesworld), but this works out better since it will benefit her directly, and I get a nifty free cd with it, so everyone wins.
Oh yeah, and I'm reading PERDIDO STREET STATION. Man, that Mieville fellow sure can write. I bought THE SCAR a couple of years ago, because at that time he was still fairly new on the SFF scene, and I had an editor interested in my first SF novel at the time, so I thought of him as "a fellow new SFF writer" (lol), but never got around to reading THE SCAR. This copy of PSS I got free from the Comic-Con, and it's the one that put him on the map, so I figured it'd be a good intro to his longer work (since I read THE TAIN at the con). Anyway, it's a nifty book.
Hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday; I'm going to go into the bedroom now and read while Sara enjoys the Olympics... |
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| Long time no write... |
[Aug. 7th, 2004|01:13 pm] |
...it's been too long since I updated this journal. It was a pretty busy week. Among other things, I wrote a con report/essay on the San Diego Comic-Con, and sent it to The Internet Review of Science Fiction, which had published my review of The Fortress of Solitude last month. The con was quite an experience, and writing about it turned out to be exhausting. Anyway, I'm glad it's done (barring rewrites, etc.)
I have various short stories in various states of readiness, so I hope to work on them next week.
But today is Sara's birthday, so we're going to go to Washington Park, and just unplug today. :-)
Hope everyone has a good Saturday. |
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| Blue Lemur posts |
[Jul. 11th, 2004|03:35 pm] |
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Well, I finally researched and wrote two posts for my Blue Lemur Web log.
It's about the oil and water crises. I tried to make it interesting. Hopefully I succeeded. |
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| ahem |
[Jul. 6th, 2004|10:45 pm] |
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Livejournal wasn't updating, so I kept re-posting in case any of you saw the same post over and over again (and now I know to leave well enough alone when it isn't showing up...) |
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| another web log |
[Jun. 30th, 2004|08:49 pm] |
Well, looks like I'm doing a web log for the Raw Story site. The URL is: new weblog .
Don't ask me why the blog site is called "Blue Lemur," I have no idea. lol.
So far, there's not much there aside from an introductory post, a host of links (I added most of the people I know go here ... I can also remove you from there if you wanted), and a second, incidental post. We'll see how it goes.
I still intend to keep this one up, though. It's where I'll still talk about the stuff I've always talked about. Livejournal's a good place to use as a safety valve. :-) |
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[Jun. 28th, 2004|10:17 pm] |
Been an eventful weekend.
-I finished another section of my story collaboration and fired it off to my buddy.
-I'm about 180 pages into Mona Lisa Overdrive. Sort of wanting to stretch it out, as I know it's his last work with the Sprawl, but also looking forward to his Bridge stuff. Some of my favorite stories of his (Hinterland, The Winter Market, Dogfight) have been non-Sprawl, so it'll be interesting to see the rest of his stuff.
-We saw Fahrenheit 9/11. I echo Matt Stover, when he said in his journal, to go and see it, even if you don't like Moore/think he's full of it. I left madder than I'd been in a long while. I have a review brewing in my head.
-Went to the Michael Moore "Town Hall Meeting" done by MoveOn.org. It was interesting, if a little anti-climactic, but very cool to see a whole bunch of angry liberals. lol.
-Have been invited to write stories/web log entries for The Raw Story. We'll see what happens.
-My review of Fortress of Solitude has been accepted by The Internet Review of Science Fiction.
:-) |
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| Warehouse Sales and Influences and Heat |
[Jun. 19th, 2004|02:28 pm] |
Night Shade Books, is having a warehouse sale. You can get 50% off their current and forthcoming titles if you buy three or more books, and type, 'HSN' in the 'Coupon Code' box on the order form. The sale is running until Tuesday. I'm sure those who read this journal already know about it, but sometimes repetition is a good thing, ;-) I ordered my three already: Kage's Mother Aegypt, Jeff Vandermeer's Veniss Undergrond and Viator by Lucius Shepard. Looking forward to all three.
Also almost done with Burning Chrome. Here follows more Gibson praise: I seriously think William Gibson is my new writing hero. I very rarely get into an author's style like this. I'd say, Stover, George R.R. Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay, Morgan Llywelyn, Robert Jordan (yes I'll admit it...), Orson Scott Card, and Theodore Sturgeon are the authors who have affected me as deeply. But I credit his fiction for loosening my own writing knots. I never expected to get into his fiction like this.
Well, anyway, it's also been damn fucking hot here in Portland. It's cooler today, for which we are grateful. Have a good one! |
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| Pet Peeves |
[Jun. 14th, 2004|10:45 am] |
1. People who say, or write, "Whoot!" More of a mild pet peeve.
2. Thousand-yard stares. Usually from ex-military types. In response to a mumbled question. Not a mild pet peeve. I can actually say that I hate getting this look.
3. High-maintenance friends.
4. Cliques. It's amazing to me that nerds and bookish types are far worse at this, post-high school, than any of the so-called popular kids in high school.
5. Smarminess.
6. Attention whores.
7. Neoconservatives.
8. Brand-new webzines that cheerfully announce they don't pay a dime, but want your stories anyway. Fuck you.
9. People who choose not to read, because books "are boring."
10. The same stupid, tired arguments about what's wrong with the publishing industry--the first, second ... even the third time, it was fine. Now, with nothing being done, no organization, no action being taken ... it's fucking stupid. You might as well just gripe about it in an online journal (uh...) unless you're ready to really get something done.
11. Writers who will do anything to be "published." Hey, we've all been at the depths of despair with a story or novel. But there's no reason to throw away your career because some huckstering dream thief says he can publish you, and put your book on ... (ooh! ahh!) Amazon.com.
12. Constant, pervasive negativity (uhh...) Sure, things are bad ... but what the fuck is the point of accentuating it all the goddamn time? Is it going to do anything other than give you an ulcer? Why is "positive thinking" always equated with being out of touch with reality? How is always dwelling on what's wrong with a situation somehow closer to being "truthful?"
13. People who think the number "13" is unlucky.
14. My own procrastination.
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Phew. Okay, back to work. |
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| Supersized and Fired Up |
[Jun. 6th, 2004|08:00 pm] |
So Sara and I saw Supersize Me today, the one about the dude (Morgan Spurlock) who goes on an all-McDonalds-all-the-time diet for a whole month, much to the horror of his GP, hired nutritionist, and especially his vegan girlfriend. He ends up gaining almost 30 pounds, his total cholesterol shoots up from 165 to 230, and his liver looks like it went five-hundred rounds with a vat of vodka. Damn good film. It's worth checking out, so you can draw your own conclusions.
For me ... well, I've been a vegetarian for seventeen years. But, before that, I was like one of the little happy-meal loving kids in the films. I was inactive, and a little chubby for a while, then significantly overweight. Even after becoming a vegetarian, I was overweight (I was more like grilled-cheese-atarian), but finally shaped up and lost fifty pounds, and have kept it off since, gaining only muscle weight. So when I get mad at the rising obesity in this country, I don't do it from a high horse. I remember what it was like...
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I picked up an issue of Wizard: the Guide To Comics yesterday, after not looking at a copy for almost a year. I've been really out of touch with comics for that long, too. There's been a lot of sweeping changes. Grant Morrison is at Vertigo, Avengers and Alpha Flight are set for a re-launch. D.C. is abot to have a huge-ass crossover that will rock the foundations of its universe--Identity Crisis.
Jesus Christ. The industry is caught in some kind of infinity loop. Whilce Portacio is bringing back Wetworks!
Again.
This is what passes for a new, fresh idea:
"America's 1st SuperHero is the Mayor of New York City ... and he's giving new meaning to the term ... POLITICAL POWER!"
It's Ex Machina!!
Shoot me now.
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I'm still reading Count Geiger's Blues, and I'm enjoying it. Bought a couple of used paperbacks ... Burning Chrome and a couple of Moorcock paperbacks, his first Jerry Cornelius stories, I think. After reading the sorry state of the comic book industry, and annoyed with the infinity loop my fellow SFF comrades are stuck in, regarding the sorry state of SFF publishing, I'm going to redouble my efforts to get some serious shit done.
Time for me to put up or shut up. |
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| Long time no journaling... |
[May. 27th, 2004|06:40 pm] |
...not sure why I haven't written in this journal of late, it just got away from me. It's also been a busy couple of weeks. Sara and I visited my family (on my Mom's side) over the weekend, in Vancouver. I hadn't been there in three years, so it was good to see everyone again. There's something about British Columbia that I really like. There is a different quality to the air. I always have a strange longing to live there when I visit, and I get creatively inspired. I know that partly it's the "great place to visit, not live" kind of situation, though.
I finished Count Zero yesterday (really enjoyed it), and am about halfway through Cosmicomics. I sold a few books to Powells, built up some in-store credit, and used it to buy Michael Bishop's Count Geiger's Blues. I couldn't get the title out of my head when I saw it a week or two ago, and the first few pages hooked me, so I figured it would be my next book. Besides, I don't want to devour all of Gibson's canon in one go. I find that I enjoy books better when I space them out. I plan to order Burning Chrome soon (Powells didn't have it), and also Mona Lisa Overdrive. This has been one of my most satisfying years for reading. I feel like I've learned from the books I've read this late winter and spring.
Writing is going slowly, but steadily. I fixed up the Flash Story, adding about 250 words to it--therefore no longer making it a flash story, lol--and sent it off again. Still working on finishing Short Story III, and the Older Story and ex-Themed Anthology story still sit in my hard drive, awaiting my attention. Blargh. I need to fucking buckle down and get them done.
In other news, Sara and I ate pasta shells tonight, with cheese bread. Our own little personal, "fuck you" to the Atkins mania. It's almost surreal how "low carb" has replaced "low fat" in dieting parlance. It's more than a little disturbing to me.
Oh yeah, and Sara has finished a short story of her own, and is probably going to send it out tomorrow. :-) I don't want to sound patronizing, but I am really proud of her. It's not her first completed story, but it is the first, non-school related fiction she's completed in several years. I am really glad that she's going to send it out.
Other than that, I need to make several phone calls this weekend, get back in touch with some folks, etc. And I think that about covers it. Hope the past couple of weeks has treated everyone else okay. :-) |
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