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Is 11-year-old boy reicarnated WWII pilot? This is sort of unclear and boring at first, and then when you get about halfway through it, it's like "oh, well, yeah, that is a bit weird."

Did something really wanky happen on yuletide last night that the mods had to delete posts?

I'll add to this later. Have to bring the cat to the vet now. Oh cat. ETA: on cat -- she's getting fluids, blood and urine tests, a vitamin shot, her nails trimmed and x-rays. They think it's her liver. I'll know more later and yet more tomorrow.

Welsh rugby player comes out. [note: audio file, when I find a transcript, I'll link] This is slightly old news (a few days), but as you might imagine, if it's both about gay stuff and Wales, about 80-billion people link me to it. And it's good stuff. So hey! Also, in the land of shallow: I really do love the accent. (I do! Stop laughing!)

The holiday cards came. They look STUNNING. So those will start going out "soon."

OMG, Yuletide pinch hit while dealing with sick cat.

I watched Gattaca for the 80-billionth time last night. If you want to get me (or the lens through which I tend to view and get attracted to other media), watch that. No time to wax poetic about it today, but "I never saved anything for the way back." To think I once had a lover who said I only liked it because it was gay and well art directed; he was so afraid of me.

Los Alamos National Labs just accidentally blew up a building. I have the sudden urge to say that "dynamite is never the only option." Way to go, guys.

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[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

I strongly suspect that the yuletide thing had to do with people whining about how no one will be able to tell the difference this year between the story written by assignment and the one written as a treat/pinch hit/whatever. The argument, as I understand it and such as it is, goes that the recipient's first and most weighty gratitude and feedback should go to the person who wrote her big assigned story, and not to some mere volunteer who contributed something merely because she was inspired/wanted to.

I didn't see whatever happened last night (I've been buried under RL work, and didn't even see the pinchhit list issue until it was too late to do anything about it), but I've seen the whining about the assigned writer-versus-volunteer-treat-writer off and on for weeks now, and that would match up with astolat's mod smackdown of this morning.