Warwick Davis may be my new favorite person

http://www.warwickdavis.co.uk/snapes-ipod-playlist-1

sundries?!?!?!!

Pro-stuff I am actively working on for the next week:

- Madonna essay
- Lesbian werewolf story (remember this? from the dawn of time? I blew the deadline like crazy AGES ago, but because the anthology editor is gracious and awesome, it's still on the table)
- Bristol abstract
- Email to dude with the vague CFP for the Luhrmann-related book, and a general plan of AWESOMENESS
- gay airship pirates story
- finishing touches on Snape paper and Powerpoint
- amorphous category of pitches, semi-pro stuff, an abstract without a home and other oddities, omitted

HOLY HELL HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

I just received the most jaw dropping piece of gossip I've received in a damn long time. No, I'm not telling you, but seriously, if you know me well, how hard is it for me to be gobsmacked? I'm gobsmacked. GOBSMACKED.

I think I am buying a computer tonight.

We're going to Ocean Grove and it's going to rain all weekend. ALL WEEKEND. So I think it's turning into a sex and writing sort of thing.

still gobsmacked.

stories from the drowned city

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30doctors.html

It'll take me weeks to read this article, although I will read it. Katrina remains the only news event that has ever caused me to need to step away from coverage. Four years later that hasn't changed; I can only deal with it in rationed pieces. I am deeply ashamed of this. The news is a civic duty; witnessing is a moral one. And I worked for the AP, and let me tell you, I saw stuff -- a lot of stuff -- that never, ever reached an audience because it was so graphic. But Katrina remains the one story I can't handle.