Torchwood crack rec

The folks at the DWNY meetup last night turned me on to this:

http://tw-babiez.livejournal.com/

The genius is in the details. Like the scary little Lisa doll.

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I got tagged by deslea:

Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, goals or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged, listing their names & why you chose them. You can't tag a person who has tagged you.

1. I've suddenly noticed that I don't eat food requiring forks very often. I eat hand foods or use chopsticks (often for things that aren't necessarily chopstick appropriate). The reason I noticed this is that when I do eat something that requires a fork, and it's a heavy utensil, it actually startles me in terms of how it feels in my hand.

2. I have to read the Wall Street Journal every day because of my desk job. Including the editorials. The editorials make me want to punch people. What blows me away the most is how often they are utterly devoid of a common sense understanding of macroeconomics. I assume that lots of readers take their crazy as truth because it's the WSJ. You all should read Barron's instead. They're snarky and sort of liberal and actually get how the economy works.

3. When I was in second grade I started The Club for Drawing Cats during recess. Everything I needed to know about how to lose friends and fuck-up leadership I learned with crayons. I'm a shitty artist too. More on this later.

4. Sometimes I feel a lot of shame about my love of and interest in in war stories, because I don't feel entitled. I feel like my narrative proclivities offend the fuck out of my pacifist friends and my veteran friends, and the fact that I take it seriously as a creator and a consumer of media somehow only makes it worse in my brain.

5. My family has a way of keeping trivial secrets that feel like a big deal. As such, I didn't find out that my father was married once before my mom until I was 19 and my birthday is either October 4 or October 1. Also, do you think someone could have told me the family cancer history at some point before I had to start getting mammograms myself? Seriously.

6. Lately, I feel like I'm living a rock star life with absolutely none of the perks. "If it's Tuesday... wait, I have no idea what state I'm in and are we sure it's Tuesday?" sums it up.

7. I have two failed vacations in my past, in that I was halfway through plans and never got there. One was to Morocco. The other was to Space Camp. I think Space Camp would break my heart now, because it wouldn't be _enough_. Still want to get to Morocco, doesn't seem important like it once did now though.

8. Every time I had my heart broken in my twenties I thought about moving to Chicago or Colorado.

9. I still really, really, secretly believe that there's magic of the most unreasonable sort out there waiting for me. I couldn't be this ridiculous if I didn't. But really. It sounds like a throwaway sentence. It's not.

10. Similarly. I do not talk about my experience of character and writing because I don't ever want to be mistaken for the crazy, eventhough I can't always tell you what makes me different from the crazy other than a bit of discretion, a lot of elegance and a fine-toothed comb.

No tagging. Drives people nuts.

messages from the future

Did anyone see my meet the author presentation at Terminus?

Does anyone else remember when I fucked up an said the next movie is coming out next summer?

The next movie is coming out next summer.

Wha?