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Patty's phone has been found! At the restaurant we ate at the night before she left. I had tried to call them the day of her flight but we kept getting disconnected and then the call wouldn't go through. But anyway, that's all good, and I'll pick it up for her today or tomorrow. Yay. Also, I hear she acquired welsh cakes for me.

Pam Cook book is so good, but y'all don't care. But, SO GOOD. It's weird though when she breezes by things I know more trivia about than she has any reason to include because her focus is elsewhere.

One of the things I find challenging about wearing many hats that are, despite my best efforts, not entirely fully integrated yet (that's really a function of success/fame -- until you're _known_ the extra hats can look like lack of focus, as opposed to PURE AWESOME) is when I have to write bios that are only about one part of the awesome I do. I get how it's all connected, and the bio can totally make it make sense, but it's, alas, not always the time or place. It makes me sad. Hey, you all, write your bio as it should be (like would go with an authored article or a theater program listing or whatever) in comments. That should be fun.

This means I currently have two things out that are almost certainly going to press, but I can't talk about yet, and two pitches out that I have no idea what's up with them yet. Not bad. More, I must make more! Also, I think I am totally going to do that screenplay writing contest.

Have the fake book for the Inception musical spoof now. Hey, I can still sight read decently. Good to know. Also, I am so in love with this one song, which is sly and funny and dark and sort of suits me completely unrelated to the context of the material or source material. Also, you all have to love a line that's "the strength of my wrist, is damage control." ARE YOU EXCITED YET, PEOPLE? Also, my former roommate is singing the Eames to my Arthur, so tell me that's not pure hilarity.

Yesterday, I was awesome with plumbing. STOP LAUGHING. I had to change a washer, that was nearly impossible to find, in a very cantakerous showerhead, but I got it to work and am very proud of myself.

Love this haircut. Never have I ever spent ten minutes in front of the mirror messing with a haircut because it was JUST THAT AWESOME. But this haircut is just that awesome.

Hate the degree to which my gender presentation is a function of who's giving me cookies. Oh, I was pretty in a dress, let's be a girl! I love/am a function of my wavering gender. But sometimes, I feel like a ghost because of it.

Why is the whole Internet so super slow lately? Is it sunspots or what?

Oh, hey, if I owe you a response to a PM, and I can think of at least two that had Emotional Content I Should Respond To, I am a flake, and you are not a creeper, and I'll try to get back to you today. LJ PM's and I -- I hate the interface. It's a thing. Sorry!

Anderson Cooper interviews Michigan ADA about his harassment/criticism of a gay college student involved in his university's campus government. Weird and horrifying. Note: video only, not currently captioned.

Another teen has died because of anti-gay bullying after nine days in the hospital because of a suicide attempt. Every day, kids like that this you don't hear about are dying because of hate. Seth Walsh was 13.

It is with no little sense of inner-conflict and bitterness that I report on this thing that seems to imply being queer might help you get into college. I barely managed to stay in school because I was queer.

First film from India to feature gay sex scene may be censored.

The American People is a history of homosexuality in America. The book is 4,000 pages long and will be published in two volumes beginning in 2012. Article makes assertions about Abraham Lincoln's sexuality (a topic we've certainly heard much on before) and George Washington's (news to me). And, yes, I know using our terms for sexuality anachronistically is problematic. I imagine this is going to be a must own.

Transman seeking donations in return for art to fund his top surgery. via sanat.

Slow progress for women in management.

Comments

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

Oh, good (um, well), it's not just my connection being weird, then? I was starting to wonder if some server upstream from where my DSL connects to had gone down or something.

As to bios, oh, yeah, I shudder when I have to try to make sense of even the so-called "professional" parts of my life (the personal life parts don't even make sense to me, man), but this is what the blurb I throw at people and run these days looks like:

Samantha Lynn is the president, dyemaster, CFO, secretary and garbage-taker-outer of Halftone Artisan Handpainted Yarns (http://halftoneyarn.etsy.com), which means that yes, this is her Day Job. She blogs her ongoing adventures at http://robling-t.livejournal.com, and is currently recovering from an attempt to learn something new every day for a year or die trying. All she wants for Xmas is a literary agent.

I've never been sure if that's at all adequate to the task, or what the task really even is, on a grand-scheme-of-things sort of level (I'm apparently not the sort of person who finds reading bios relevant, I guess -- what are they for, really? Why is it interesting unless it's insanely weird like guarding manholes or Saudi princes?), but so far it hasn't been sent back with a request it be expanded by any venue that's asked me for one...

What I would like, I guess, is for someone who does find bios interesting to sit down and try to make sense of my life! :) Hm, there's a post in that, isn't there...

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on changing the washer! I know how thrilling it can be to do something like that by yourself!

Are you going to be in town November 12th? I think you will be away, but if not, that is the night I will have a reading at the Dramatists Guild!

[rm.livejournal.com]

I will be in Europe from October 24 - November 29, alas.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Funny, I wondered if it was my internet, but other pages haven't been that slow to load. I think LJ's being robust again. Wonder what code they're pushing this time?

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

LJ's been slower than anywhere else on my end. It's still being a bit wonky.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Do you want a link to the hottest Victorian cosplayers ever? (Holmes/Watson, hot ladies) I think you do.

Now I want to cosplay Holmes. (But not Baz Luhrmann.)


Also, I'm curious about the Pam Cook book! You should post about it here when you're done.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Wow, I was actually expecting those cosplayers to be people I know, but they are not. They are, however, hot.

Yes, will write about the Pam Cook book cogently at some point.

(keep trying to address how I'm not addressing the rest of your comment and making accidental double entendres, so I'm JUST NOT TALKING ANYMORE TODAY).

[brilliant-snark.livejournal.com]

I am so excited by this Inception musical spoof concept. Possibly...more excited than is reasonable. :)

Good haircuts! I keep touching mine. :P

Hate the degree to which my gender presentation is a function of who's giving me cookies. Oh, I was pretty in a dress, let's be a girl! I love/am a function of my wavering gender. But sometimes, I feel like a ghost because of it. THIS, so much this. I have nothing more eloquent (as my coffee hasn't kicked in yet) other than "I <3 you".

Internet slowness - Oh, thank providence it's not just me. It's been driving me BONKERS. Mine is so bad I'm having flashbacks to dial-up. *shudders*

mmm, informative?

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[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Please, please, please let me know what that musical version of Inception is happening. I will drive to New York if I have to.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Right now, we're just recording a demo. But you'll be able to listen to it soon.

[sanat.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I never know how to do bios either.

"Born in Upstate New York and educated in Northern California, Angela currently exists in a liminal state of residence in New Zealand with her husband and two native flatmates, where she spends her time squeeing over unlikely-looking birds and promoting obscure forms of folk art from Eastern Europe."

That's about as succinct as I can put it.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I have to write a bio for the Gilbert and Sullivan Trial by Jury production I'm in (just in the chorus). I'm not comfortable writing about myself in the third person. Plus this one I limit to my performance experience (which makes it quite short).

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

TRIAL BY JURY!!!

Sweet, where?

~Sor

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Hey, you all, write your bio as it should be (like would go with an authored article or a theater program listing or whatever) in comments. That should be fun.

Sor Kyress is a strange sort of person who writes a lot of things, some of them interesting, and has a lot of sex, most of it awesome. Theoretically, she's going to grow up and become a high school math teacher, at which point she will replace her life of adventure with a life of hilarious stories about how terrible or wonderful her students are. She dances, a lot, and has a new bicycle, which has pretty much turned out to be the best thing ever.

Though if I were really writing this for a program-book, like in high school, I would probably have to end a closing line about losing the game. We were very mature in high school, you understand. Theatre kids always are.

(Ask again in six months. I want to know how it changes.)

~Sor

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

things I find challenging about wearing many hats
I haven't had my coffee yet, and definitely pictured you like Dobby, with a large stack of badly-hand-knit hats teetering on top of your head.

[idiomagic.livejournal.com]

Bios:

Gwyndyn Alexander is a poet who spends a lot of time behind bars...mixing drinks. She collects books, misunderstood geniuses, and recipes for tiki drinks. An exile of the Katrina Diaspora variety, Gwyndyn dreams of someday making a triumphal return to her true home, New Orleans.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Hate the degree to which my gender presentation is a function of who's giving me cookies. Oh, I was pretty in a dress, let's be a girl! I love/am a function of my wavering gender. But sometimes, I feel like a ghost because of it.

See Also: reasons I sometimes miss my previous life. I could have attention! I could be cute and get things for cheap if I wore the right shirt! My sexuality could be socially beneficial! Now I'm just some scruffy milquetoast creeper who blends in with the rest of the fanboys.

Also, it's damn hard to square my very manly desire to paint my nails (because I'm that kind of man) with the message that no really, I'm a man.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Gay...college...ARRRRRRRRRRRGH!*swears*

And, yes, I know using our terms for sexuality anachronistically is problematic.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

This makes me insane. More insane. Insaner.

It makes history not have happened.

I remember Gay becoming a word.
We needed a word for being out because we'd never done that before!

Applying the term retroactively makes all that go away, and promotes the Non-change-ist View of History.

Re: And, yes, I know using our terms for sexuality anachronistically is problematic.

[rm.livejournal.com]

That said, we do also need a way to talk about people who engaged in same-sex relationships and attractions before gay or homosexuality or whatever else was part of the lexicon.

I love/am a function of my wavering gender. But...

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Gendering is one of the things you do, and one of the many things you do well.
If you are a ghost, then this is a planet of ghosts.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Hey, you all, write your bio as it should be (like would go with an authored article or a theater program listing or whatever) in comments. That should be fun.

Jude is a recovering geneticist who writes for a living. She writes just about anything, but specializes in software documentation, medical training, and fiction that no one else is producing but she'd like to be able to buy.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Is the Inception musical going to be available online? Will it be purchasable?

I'm so far away from everything!

History of sexuality FTW!

[rm.livejournal.com]

It will be available online!

[canaana.livejournal.com]

Re: the internet, the last time my network admin looked into this due to a complaint at work, he found 16% packet loss in North America and a major problem on a Sprint network somewhere between NY and San Francisco. Details may or may not have changed since then. But in non-geek-speak, the best we could figure out was that something major was down, and the computers that give internet traffic directions hadn't successfully figured out how to route around it on the first try, yet.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

Also, my former roommate is singing the Eames to my Arthur, so tell me that's not pure hilarity.

Considering Tiny Dynamite was the last time we were on stage together just adds to the hilarity.

[rm.livejournal.com]

That fucking show.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

The plumbing note made me laugh, but mostly because you told me not to. It's like telling someone not to think of a purple elephant because...

Also, slow Internet? Yeah, I suspect a denial of service attack somewhere.

[mithrigil.livejournal.com]

Oh also, two things:

1) YOU FOUND THE WASHER. Thank god, that thing was getting ridiculous.

2) My bio:

Erica is a dork. More people should give her money for this.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have more stories about this washer. It was epic. EPIC.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

The blurb on my social-networks calling-card (thanks Moo.com) runs as follows:

Writer, ponderer, observer, amateur futurist

...which I'm sure could be improved upon; the trick is, to improve upon it in as few characters as possible, so as to leave room for the address-lines.

[eva-rosen.livejournal.com]

Article makes assertions about Abraham Lincoln's sexuality (a topic we've certainly heard much on before) and George Washington's (news to me).

Do you know that, according to our historians, we don't have a single gay or bisexual historical figure here in Argentina? Not one. The only mention they do is about a general, because apparently back in time rumor was rampant, and they never miss a chance to mention he had lots of illegitimate children. Besides me thinking that doesn't really prove anything, I must stress: not one? Come on, people.

[idunn.livejournal.com]

Don't think anyone's posted it here yet, but it's the end of a long day so I could be wrong. Rutgers freshman is presumed dead in suicide after roommate broadcast gay sexual encounter online (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/hold_new_rutgers_post.html).

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

This story is one of a number I have come across today that just make me seethe. Although I do kind of dig that the same medium that they used to badger their victim is now publishing their name and likenesses to internetland to see. Did this result truly not cross their minds? I sure as hell wasn't that callous and stupid at 18.