I have a splitting headache and frimfram is gone. Fridays are sucking lately. :/
Archive for June, 2006
Fannish suicide
Posted in General on Jun 14th, 2006
I’ve heard this in several places recently: Expressing an unpopular opinion is fannish suicide.
Well, no. People express unpopular opinions all the time. There are whole memes devoted to unpopular opinions, and while they often result in “Dude, no way!” controversy, very rarely does that controversy result in any lasting consequences, good or bad, […]
Mighty winds
Posted in General on Jun 13th, 2006
All you guys in Florida hold on, OK?
frogfarm’s Life During Wartime, a Willow/Faith rewrite of the end of S7. Why? Because the world needs more Willow/Faith, and this one offers a unique look at the end of the world through Willow’s eyes. Check it out.
Story talk
Posted in General on Jun 12th, 2006
You may have noticed that I make long-term plans for my characters. There’s always room for having a better idea, but roughly speaking, I have their whole lives planned out, and I don’t necessarily write the stories I have planned in chronological order. Sometimes this means some tricky figuring, especially when having a […]
Sunday miscellany
Posted in General on Jun 12th, 2006
Thanks to whoever nominated “A Stitch In Time” in the SunnyD Memorial awards.
I sent my yearbook picture in to Writercon; since I waited till the last minute and didn’t have any time to do something interesting or cool (I could have made myself a vampire, darn it!) it’s just a snapshot. […]
Midnight in the garden of kinda OK and meh
Posted in General on Jun 10th, 2006
You know how I posted awhile ago that I’d revised the first scene of Ch. 11? Well, it’s gone. I don’t know how, I don’t know where, but it ain’t there no more. Luckily it wasn’t a very long scene, and I can snag the first draft from the Yahoo list where […]
Sort of tired and depressed this morning. Some of it due to actual bad news, like cindershadow’s unexpected passing, some of it due to petty stupid annoyances like my lunch box going missing, and the pharmacy forgot to split Mom’s Atacand AGAIN and I have to go back and yell at them, and […]
Regarding last post
Posted in General on Jun 7th, 2006
I wasn’t trying to say that the people in either of the conversations I referred to were bad people, or stupid. What I was trying to do, apparently quite ineptly, was to point out that all of us have blind spots about things which to other people seem obvious, and sometimes we cultivate […]
Someone mentioned t-shirts…
Posted in General on Jun 7th, 2006
It’s a dirty job, but someone had to do it.
Barbara Cummings hereby grants anyone permission to reproduce or alter this image for personal use only so long as you give me credit for the original artwork.