sundries

1 week until Patty returns!

I am, if you can't tell, still completely discombobulated from my trip. I'm tired, stressed, and can't keep track of the day and time. It is getting better, but I'm working from a deficit.

Kali and I had a writing meeting last night wherein we Solve Lots of Shit and actually found a structure that Feels Like a Novel to someone other than us. On the other hand, this fucker is so intricate, that I fear it's going to take five years to write. Here's the thing though: I don't actually care. It's very, very good, and we will make it happen.

Meanwhile though, fuck five years -- we've got two weeks on Dogboy & Justine. And in that time need to raise $1,670 $1,360. Can we do this? Yes we can. Erica and I are both doing a lot of off-line, or at least off-LJ outreach. But the fact is, it's do or die time.

I'll write more about the show later -- I owe you lots of thoughts about theater, about dominatrixes, about what we're trying to do and why. And here's the thing -- I know some of you are sick of hearing about this. ( Read more... )

Figment is a platform for young people to engage in social networking through and about fiction. Like this has never happened before ;)

If you're reading this journal, you already know this is true: bullies go digital.

Interesting and offensive editorial on the changing demographics of the supposed US culture war.

The circus will not be coming to Manhattan this spring. Because of the way animals are treated in circuses, this is probably a good thing. But as someone who once saw elephants parade through the streets of New York, at midnight, in the snow, and felt it was a symbol of a number of oddly nearly-achieved since and still in progress dreams, I'm really sad.

Sharing the Dakota with John Lennon. Someone I grew up with lived in the Dakota and heard the shot that killed him; we were in fifth grade.

1 borough, 5 generations.

My alma mater gets co-ed dorm rooms.

Please keep adding your stuff to the shopping post. Sales and donations have already been made because of it.

Sam responds to an email making the rounds about choosing how to donate your charity dollars. It is worth a read.

For those of you who followed along with the Sherlobster thing yesterday, ladyofthelog animated the lobsters. It makes my life even more awesome than it already is.