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[rm]

Today is another epic work day. I'm going to try to not come in tomorrow, so that I might actually clean my house before the house sitter arrives and do things I need to do to get ready for my trip. There's shopping, a haircut, and another video conference with Patty that all need to happen.

Remember the AWESOME shoes I bought for the NYMF opening party? I left them in a cab after the NYMF closing party. I'm trying to do the lost and found thing. I'm pretty annoyed with myself, but don't have the time to truly hate myself over it.

Yesterday Kali and I had an awesome writers meeting. The global banking crisis continues to be the metaphor that has enabled us to solve the whole book. We now have a structure for the whole thing; lots of background notes; most character names; a detailed 80% complete outline of the first half; a strategy for getting it done; and a few shitty opening paragraphs I wrote late last night.

Dogboy & Justine now has 33 backers who have pledged a total of $1,375 to the production. By the end of the day, the trajectory goals are such that we need to get to at least $1,450.

Hey. When I have to use a product I've never used before, sometimes I check online to see if it's gluten-free. That's because current US labeling laws address wheat but not gluten. And Googling it often faster than calling an 800-number where someone doesn't have the answer. That's why it's INCREDIBLY IRRESPONSIBLE when other people with my disease run to a celiac board every time you feel ill and blame it on a random product. Sometimes, even with celiac disease, OTHER STUFF WILL MAKE YOU SICK, because normal people get stomach upsets. Basically one person does this once, in like 2006, and it proliferates all over the Internet, and restricts me from a product I can actually use. Warnings from my fellow afflicted are good, but please think before you're all THIS WILL KILL YOU AND THIS COMPANY HATES YOU.

WWI is about to end (yes, WWI) as Germany pays the last of its reparations.

DADT reinstated.

Preserving gay film history.

Even cooler than the ClockTower: Seattle's pyramid.

Bob Guccione has died.

Wheelchairs for animals: look at the adorable sheep!

Comments

[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

... it is possible that we have your shoes, you know.

Or anyway we have a shoebox from Aldo that isn't ours?

[rm.livejournal.com]

OH YOU HAVE MY SHOES!

[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

Oh good! Come by and get them tonight or tomorrow?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Probably tomorrow, but yes.

[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

Text or email; someone will be around.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

Since deaths seems to come in threes, I was wonder who the next Hollywood star to go would be. What a juxtaposition between Tom Bosley (known for his upright roles as a 50s dad, a sheriff in a small Maine town, and a priest), Barbara Billingsly (the quintessential 50s mom), and Bob Guccione, creator of Penthouse. Whoa!

I know that feminists are supposed to hate Penthouse and pretty much all of the Bob Guccione titles. But I have a real fondness for Forum which was my first exposure to kink of all sorts and Xaviera Hollander (whose autobiography is one of my favorites) who was a columnist. It was reassuring to know that I wasn't as out there as I thought I was.

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've been busy. DADT being reinstated makes me so sad/angry, but I knew it wasn't going to last with all the hype around it. :((

[ckd]

I've been very close to that Smith Tower apartment (the observation deck & banquet room right below it) and can only imagine how amazing it is to live up there all the time. On the three days a year when the weather is clear, anyway....

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you the story of when our (children's) choir sang at a Christmas party at Guccione's house? I remember a reflecting pool and a harp and a lot of gilt.

[rm.livejournal.com]

NO!

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Yup. We also sang (same holiday season, I believe-- 1988?) in the lobby of the Helmsley Palace. SO trashy.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I always wondered who lived up there on top of Smith Tower! I'm really pleased that it's someone who sounds terribly cool.

I'm reasonably sure there's a Torchwood branch under the Space Needle, by the way.

ETA: There's a group of dogs I often see at the local dog park that includes a little Jack Russell who uses a chair. He keeps up with the rest of the pack just fine! :-)

[sanguinity]

There is an apartment at the top of the Smith Tower?? *envy*

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

You are now at 34 backers and $1450.

[sethg]

Now that Germany has paid for WWI, do they get to invade France again?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Seattle's pyramid

Wow, it's not often that someone ends up living in a location that belongs as a superhero lair. Very cool.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

DADT: it's like the lightswitch rave of oppression.

And dang. I had not realized about WWI.