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One of the women at work owns an orchard with her family, and after Thanksgiving she offered each of us a box of apples of the breed her brother developed, the Timpanogous. (It's a blend of the Fuji and the Gala, iirc.) They're pretty tasty as table apples, but I can't eat a whole box of apples myself even if I keep them in old storage for months. So I went hunting for apple recipes and bought the ingredients this weekend.
I have started small with easy apple crisp. My hands are cramped from the peeling and slicing and my back hurts from standing, but my apartment smells like cinnamon and I've got something tasty to look forward to. (If it works out. I don't know how these apples will bake. If they cook up okay I'll try some more recipes.)
alankria)Later in October, Penny and I visited the southwest of WA for a couple of days. On the way down, we stopped at Bunbury: a quiet coastal town, with a mangrove swamp tucked into the side of its river.
A boardwalk led between the trees, surrounded by those roots sticking up like long, thin fingers. I like to imagine little boats winding between them.
We reached Dunsborough, played on the beach (where we dubbed little sand-banks Boblandia and Alexlandia), and the next day set off for Mammoth Cave: first of three we visited, one of many along/near Margarent River. The road that goes from cave to cave is called Caves Rd.
Entrance to Mammoth Cave is along a wooden path. Then, we followed the path through the cave, past assorted stalagmites and stalactites and columns. My favourite part was actually the exit, up a sinkhole: climbing up, with a view of trees and shrubs growing on top of earth that supported stalactites.
On to Lake Cave, which has a very iconic structure:
The floating column. It formed when the water level was higher, and it rested on the water; with dropping water levels in the cave, it has been suspended. It’s now stalactiting towards the water again. Other formations in the cave included ones resembling a citadel and a dragon, which the guide lit pink. The still water gave beautiful reflections. If undisturbed, the minerals that form the structures would coat the walkway, make rock of it. There, we also saw shawls. A collection of these elsewhere in the world is called the Silk Shop.
The next morning we went to Jewel Cave, stopping on the way at Margaret River Chocolate Factory. Bowls of chocolate drops, all three colours, sat on the counter for free tasting. I returned regularly to the milk chocolate one. They used a European recipe so it tasted marvellous. Through a glass window, we saw several people working at vans with spinning circles of melted chocolate.
Jewel Cave was my favourite. We saw so much, with another great guide. I particularly loved:
Roots, some still alive and drawing moisture from the highly humid cave, growing through the roof.
The guide led us up and down a metal walkway, past straws*, stalactites like coral, heliolites**, more heliolites, a fossilised possum, the formation like a jewellery box that one of the woman explorers decided to name the cave for.
* All stalactites begin life as a straw – a thin, hollow tube – but quickly block, forcing the mineral-laden water to run along the outside and deposit minerals to form the regular shape. Some straws do not block. The longest here is over 5m; it’s one of the world’s longest.
** Heliolites are stalactites that have formed in unusual shapes.
We ended the trip with the Tree-Top Walk, near Denmark. Yes.
A metal walkway gave wonderful views of the tingle trees.
• Part of the walkway.
• Pretty trees.
• Animal branch goes rawr.
Best of all, the trunk of tingle trees often splits at the base – splits and hollows, lets you walk through the tree, linger inside.
Originally published at Tales and Foreign Markets. You can comment here or there.
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The new King Wiliam's College Quiz is on their website. Now I'll have something the play with. There's a bit of an extra treat in it for me this year - I saw King William's College with my very own eyes last summer.
Just to have my own copy of the quiz: here it is. ( here's the quiz. )
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In spite of in house and holiday distractions, I managed to write 650 words yesterday and another 677 today, bringing me 3508 into the next chapter. This puts me at the final scene within it. Another one I've been waiting to get to for a long time... Feels good.
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Ah, Christmas. I have presents to wrap and things to do, and here I am, curling up with a good book and a cup of tea. The book is for a twelve-year-old friend - just reading it because I wanted to. Have to make sure it's up to my standards of quality. It is - it's Diane Wynne Jones' The Pinhoe Egg.
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I've got all my presents! \o/
Also, I got mail! One pretty and elegant card from ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ephemera and a cute and sparkly card from izsabella and koorifumi (plus more. I got presents from them and I just wanted to take a peek in the parcel and then - I couldn't wait. *coughs* And now my room smells delicious. And everything looks delicious. Thank you so much!)
Entry crossposted to LJ and DW ( comments). Comments welcome in either place.
thistlerose)Problem: how do I move all my music to my new computer? I thought I'd be able to save all my MP3s to my flash drive, but they're not transferring, for some reason. That is, I only seem to be able to save them one at a time. This is not going to work. I selected a bunch of them and tried to move them to the flash drive, but while it looked like they were transferring, they weren't. O_o
I suppose I could transfer them via iPod, but that's annoying too.
Also, I still don't know what to call it. When I saw how shiny it was, I was tempted to go with Serenity, but I feel like that's just asking for trouble.
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On December 6th, singer Katy Perry (”I Kissed a Girl”) posted a nude picture on her Twitter page of what appears to be a transgender man. She tweeted: “http://twitpic.com/sdf45 – NSFW! I knew those little white last week of the birth control pills would still have an effect on your body! FU.”
The photo posted on Twitpic (photo blurred by GLAAD):
Perry is referring to the last week of birth control pills that are typically taken as a placebo but largely thought to not have any effect on the body.
Making fun of transgender people’s bodies is deeply offensive. Perry’s ridicule dehumanizes this person and ignores the courage and resolve it takes to live within a transphobic society.
Some of Perry’s transphobic fans responded immediately with more crude jokes at the expense of the transgender community. On Sunday, the LGBT community began its response, calling Perry out for her exploitation.
While it appears the pic was removed this morning, we urge those offended to tweet Katy Perry directly and educate her about how jokes like this contribute to a climate that puts transgender people in harms way. If you’re on Twitter, please post this tweet to Katy Perry:
@katyperry Ridiculing a photo of a #transgender person is never OK. Pls educate yourself. (Pls RT!)
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asphodeline)It's Yule, Winter Solstice!! Be blessed and enjoy the returning light.
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If you've got a gamer on your list who just doesn't have any shiny, new consoles on which to play that newfangled Call of Assassincharted 2 game, or if you're shacked up with someone who has a computer from ten years ago and sees no reason to upgrade... or, alternately, if you just happen to have a few gaps in your classic-gaming education and want to get your hands on some gems, then look no further than GoodOldGames with their 2009 holiday sale, where literally everything except this month's releases is on sale at 25-40% off.sean_michael)
Christmas at the Hammer Club means charity auction time. This year Marcus has been roped into emcee duty and everyone has pitched in, offering time, abilities and themselves. This is Alexander's third year giving away six hours of hard play, but it's also his last as he's headed to the east coast. He's hoping to catch the eye of the Dom who's won him at the auction the last two years running. He can't help wishing it was more than just a one night thing.
Also up for grabs is Jeremy, who'd planned to offer some free iron work, but Simon's changed things up and he suddenly finds himself on offer for the whole night to the highest bidder. Who's it going to be? Jeremy has to trust his Master has his best interests at heart. Join the men of the Hammer for this Christmas tale.
Excerpt available here.
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Title and Link: I’ll be Home for Christmas
Author: Adrianna Dane
Publisher URL: Loose Id
Genre: Contemporary M/M, interracial
Length: Novella
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
THE BLURB
Destrie Two Rivers and Benedict Webster–an orphaned half-Indian and a wealthy rancher’s son. Men who were boyhood best friends, turned secret lovers when they were eighteen. And then one nightmarish night they were discovered and Destrie almost died as a
result.
Now, eight years later, just before Christmas, Destrie, an Army sniper, returns to Wyoming on leave to attend the funeral of his foster father. Both men have changed and the distance between them seems wider than the Continental Divide with no way to breach the chasm. But just as the creek where they first made love runs powerful and constant, Destrie and Benedict’s passion for each other still burns undeniably deep and everlasting.
Re-igniting their unquenchable desire could prove fatal. Until the heavy guilt and shocking secrets of the past are revealed, neither of these two men can truly come home for Christmas.
THE REVIEW
Destrie and Ben had grown up together, and when they were 18 years old they fell in love. But one night changed their lives forever and separated them for 8 years — that one night when they were found together and Destrie was beaten badly by Jake, Ben’s homophobic brother and his friends. A few days later Destrie left, never to be heard from until his foster father died. Now he was back in town, a man who fought for his country in Iraq, completely changed from the boy he was when he left town all those years ago.
When Ben saw him in the local bar where everyone hung out it was as if time had stood still because he still loved Destrie. They had both been battered by life and it seemed that the gulf between them would never be bridged. For starters they had different objectives. Ben had responsibilities towards the men and women employed on the ranch now that his father was dead, and his hands were tied because if he ever left home, Jake, who was an alcoholic, would run it into the ground. Destrie had never been welcome in the town and he knew if he stayed he would be beaten up again or killed. However nothing could keep them away from each other and that night they renewed their memories and it was as if they had never been apart. However, two days later Destrie left town once more.
This was a pattern that would be repeated again and again because Destrie and Ben could not find a compromise that would work for both of them and Destrie was on his own journey to find out about his Indian heritage. Could they find a way out of what seemed to be an impasse?
What I liked about the story
I liked both characters which were well defined and both men seemed to love each other. I also liked the writing and intensity of the emotions which sucked me into the story, although if the protagonists had talked to each other perhaps a solution might have presented itself earlier, but then the story would have been a lot shorter.
In terms of the secondary characters, Destrie’s foster mother was a sympathetic figure who loved both her son and Ben and the scenes with her were warm and fuzzy.
What I didn’t like about the story
This angst filled story seemed to go around in circles for 10 years with no solution in sight to the protagonists’ problems. I also felt that Jake, Ben’s homophobic, alcoholic brother was over the top as well as his manipulative father who I only met third hand through the recollection of others.
However, what put this story into the realm of improbability was one scene where Destrie used snow to lubricate Ben’s hole and they both still maintained an erection throughout the sex. How is that possible? There’s no amount of body heat that would melt the snow and change it into warm water in such a short time. I thought that when a man is doused with ice cold water he can’t get it up, and certainly the top would have a numb penis and would be unable to perform. In addition, the two men were outside in frigid weather which would not help the situation. Maybe I’m wrong and if so, someone please correct me.
If you like your M/M romance with more than a touch of fantasy sex then I’ll Be Home for Christmas is available now.
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thistlerose)OMG THIS IS THE BEST SEXIEST MOST BEAUTIFUL COMPUTER IN THE WORLD.
But why is it telling me I need to install Rosetta in order to get Microsoft Office 2004 to work??
ETA: Oh, there we go. Now it's working! Hmm, the only thing I'm not madly in love with is the mouse thing. My fingertips tend to slip over it, but maybe the thing'll gain traction as it ages.
Whoa, I was just able to jump from Word 1.1.5 to 11.1.5. Holy smokes!
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Cory finally released his latest in a free eBook version off his website click the link and read away.
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This is my third entry for the Alphabet in Historical Fiction Challenge sponsored by Historical Tapestry. My general theme for this challenge is "backlist books you haven't read, but should!"
Return to Jarrow is third in a trilogy. The first two volumes, The Jarrow Lass and A Child of Jarrow, cover the lives of Cookson's grandmother and mother. Each can stand alone, and all are well worth reading for their eye-opening look at real working-class women's struggles in industrial England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I've read several of Trotter's regional sagas and thorougly enjoyed them all. Her stories are compelling and heartwarming page turners, and despite the harrowing circumstances she depicts, she doesn't overdramatize. The settings feel wholly authentic, and her characters are vivid and real, with speech patterns that reflect their origins. This is a must-read for Cookson fans as well as anyone interested a well-told and compulsively readable story.
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Like Tooth & Claw: Shapeshifter Erotica is now out! We basically decided it was time for a book about all the other shifters besides werewolves, so you'll find lions, seals, eagles, and more in this ebook anthology.
Read an excerpt from the book, a piece of Lee Harrington's "Tonight We Work In Silk," here: http://www.circlet.com/?p=686
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International rugby legend, Gareth Thomas, revealed that he is gay in an interview published in the UK-based Daily Mail on Saturday.
“It’s been really tough for me, hiding who I really am,” Thomas told the Mail. “And I don’t want it to be like that for the next young person who wants to play rugby, or some frightened young kid. I don’t know if my life is going to be easier because I’m out, but if it helps someone else… then it will have been worth it.”
Thomas said he came out to close friends in late 2006.
Thomas is the first top-level rugby athlete to reveal that he is gay, according to CNN.
Of Thomas’s accomplishments, Reuters noted that he is Wales’s “most capped player with 100 appearances who has scored 41 test tries to place him ninth on the all-time list.”
“I’m proud of who I am,” Thomas says. “I feel I have achieved everything I could ever possibly have hoped to achieve out of rugby, and I did it being gay.”
CNN’s original story about Gareth Thomas’ decision to come out publicly as a gay man contained three problematic phrases that included the words “admitted,” and “confessed.” GLAAD called the network to voice concerns and explain that such words are highly offensive and suggest that being gay is somehow shameful or inherently secretive.
CNN listened and changed the story immediately; replacing the terms with appropriate words like “revealed,” “discussed,” and “came out.” GLAAD commends CNN for bringing this story in line with the most fair and accurate standards.
We will continue to follow the media’s coverage of international rugby champion Gareth Thomas’s coming out story. Updates can be found on GLAADblog.org
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So I'm organizing the writers/writing Think Track at Frolicon this year.
Frolicon is a convention that is a lot of fun; it's a crossover between a science fiction convention and a BDSM convention. You can see why I'm an appropriate person to be putting together some programming for it, no?
So if you're a writer and can get yourself to Atlanta April 1-4 2010, please drop me a line if you are interested in speaking on panels and include any panel or workshop ideas you might have.
The con website: http://frolicon.net/
Livejournal comm: http://community.livejournal.com/frolic
Last year we had panels on:
How To Write Sex in SF & Fantasy
Erotica & Sci-Fi, A Perfect Match?
Ask The Writers (Q&A session)
Slash Fiction 201
(as well as a great panel/community roundtable on Race/Ethnicity and Cultural Appropriation -- which was a pretty heavy topic for Frolicon, but went amazingly well. The track I'm organizing is more on the writing/fantasy/BDSM intersections, though.)
Drop me a line in email at ctan.writer AT gmail DOT com with your suggestions for panel topics and your bio if you're interested in speaking at the con.
Panel suggestions from fans & readers are welcome, too! And feel free to point interested parties to this post.
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Part 1 of this series is Tracking Money.
Once you’ve begun tracking your money on a daily basis it’s time to give some thoughts to setting up categories of spending and earning. If you’re using Quickbooks or one of the other computer programs aimed at helping you manage your money, you probably set up some categories.
Categories are simply a way to group classify your expenses so it’s easier to understand where your income comes from and how you spend it.
Some categories are obvious like housing costs, utilities, and groceries. Of course, freelancers will also want to distinguish between personal expenses and business income and expenses.
Obviously you’ll want more categorizes, but be careful not to create too many. It’s far easier to add new groups than reduce the number.
For example I have several income categories including writing, blogging, affiliate and royalty. In the U.S. royalty income is taxed more favorably than regular income, or so my accountant tells me.
On the expense side, I want to know how much I spend on my websites and other internet activity, so I have an Internet category. Since computer expenses seek to come up with fair regularity, I have a separate category for computers. I also have a category in my business expenses for books/newspapers/magazines on the advice of my account.
The other categories that weren’t fairly intuitive for me are savings. I’ve got savings accounts and therefore categories for taxes, business savings, real estate, prudent reserve (the account I use to smooth out income), my cat (which is great when she needs vet care), gifts and a few more.
As you begin to sort particularly your expenses into categories you’ll begin to get a clearer picture of how you really spend the money you earn because you’ll be able to see it. No more guess that you spend “about” $x eating out or $x on marketing. You’ll know and with that knowledge comes better decision making.
Do you keep track of your money with categories?
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The UK focused publishing site, The Bookseller, had an article that suggests the delay of ebooks could only strengthen Amazon instead of weakening it.
UK trade insider warned deferral was dangerous. “It is never a good response to say to a consumer: ‘We know you want this but we are not going to let you have it.’ It encourages filesharing and piracy.” The insider added the move encouraged Amazon “to price more aggressively or buy digital rights direct”.
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From the Sunday New York Times:
But this doesn’t mean that every reader is contributing to the bottom line. Only 40 percent of books that are read are paid for, and only 28 percent are purchased new, said Peter Hildick-Smith of the Codex Group, a consultant to the publishing industry. The rest are shared, borrowed, given away — or stolen.
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Marcus Dohle, CEO of Random House, says that 2009 was much better than 2008 but calls the 2010 year “uncertain.” The money quote for me was this:
“The Random House digital future is a core focus of our company’s overall strategy,” Dohle observed
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Karen Scott has fallen in love with Julia Spencer Fleming’s writing (and who can blame her). Scott asks whether the average romance readers really do read outside the genre (I’ve got some thoughts about the “average” romance reader) and why we worry about what books fit within the romance genre label.
Karen, if you like these books, I highly recommend the PJ Tracy series. I know these are fairly popular in the UK and wish the US readers would catch on. Keishon, my go to gal for all things mystery/thriller, recommend this series to me. There is a new PJ Tracy book coming in 2010. I can’t wait.
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Speaking of books coming out in 2010, Lisa Valdez sent an email notice to her web subscribers that Mark and Patience’s story, Patience, is going to be released on April 6, 2010. I received confirmation from Berkley that is indeed the release date. The only preorder Amazon link is currently the Kindle version.
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This is a fascinating, although detail lite, interview with Skip Prichard of Ingram. I think it does highlight how technology can create increased efficiencies for publishers in ecommerce settings by reducing warehouse inventories.
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CHRISTMAS NINJA Santa doesn’t stand a chance
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Hunting the wren
Oh where are you going, said Milder to Moulder
Oh we may not tell you said Festel to Fose
We´re off to the wood, said John the Red Nose
We´re off to the wood, said John the Red Nose
And what will you do, said Milder to Moulder
For we may not tell you, said Festel to Fose
We´ll shoot the cutty wren, said John the Red Nose
We´ll shoot the cutty wren, said John the Red Nose
Oh how will you cut him up, said Milder to Moulder
Oh we may not tell you, said Festel to Fose
With knives and with forks , said John the Red Nose
With knives and with forks , said John the Red Nose
And who´ll get the spare ribs said Milder to Moulder
Oh we may not tell you, said Festel to Fose
We´ll give them all to the poor, said John the Red Nose
We´ll give them all to the poor, said John the Red Nose
Although this song is often associated with the Peasants Revolt of 1381, it is a relic of a much older ritual. The Wren is the Little King of the Waning Year. He is found hiding in a holly bush by Robin Redbreast, who kills him.
On Yule, the Mother has come fully pregnant. Her time is at hand and as the old Sun dies into the longest night, she births the new one. The Holly King, her lover, is not pleased by this reminder of his brother and rival, the Oak King.
Mother informs the Holly King it is time for him to go.
No king wants to lay down his crown, and he damnds to know why he must leave and who will make him. Life is beautiful. He loves the cold and frosty stars, the icy wind, the way the snow blankets the world.
Mother smiles and tell him all times change and if he does not step down for the child she carries, even he will die forever. Without the light of the Sun, there will be no growth, no plants, only ice and snow forever. Even his green leaves will shed and die. Everything comes and everything goes. And all that dies is reborn. But without the Sun there will be no rebirth.
She lays his hands on her belly and the Holly King feels the life within her. The warmth comes out even through her body and he melts, tears on his face like dripping icicles.
From out of the growing light of the East comes a young and handsome man. He steps to his aged brother and lays a warm hand beside his face. "It is time."
The Holly King nods, knowing that in time all things are reborn, even he. "I do this for the people, that they may have light and harvest again."
"We thank you for keeping the land safe during the time of Darkness." The Oak King draws forth a sickle and decapitates his brother.
Mother picks up the severed head of her lover and kisses it. "Go into the west. It is the Oak King's time. The wheel always turns."
She covers his body with a blanket of snow and steps into the dawning light of the newborn Sun with her lover, the Oak King.
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In this, the darkest season of the year, we are hard pressed to remember things change, they always change. The warm days of summer seem far away. The garden is dead and brown. Even here, in the south, we picked the last tomatoes a month ago. The sun, on days he decides to come out, is pale and weak and far away. He lays abed long and retires early, and we want to do the same.
But now, he has been reborn. The days will grow longer. Night will come later and day will come earlier. We may not see immediate life and growth, but soon. In six weeks, early green shoot will start to appear. The trees will bud out, in ghostly haloes of yellow and red and orange and green.
The wheel always turns. Light goes but it always returns. Carry the light with you today and into the fading darkness.
~
The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown
Of all the trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown
The rising of the Sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry pipes
As we all sing with cheer.
The holly bears a berry
As red as any blood
The Goddess bears the Solstice Sun
To allow our hopes to bud
The rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The Green Man and the Holly King
Are always welcome here.
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David Ulin, of the Los Angeles Times focuses on the question we kicked down the road. And, oh yes, he notes that reading is stronger and more prevalent than ever before.
Writing and reading are about engagement, about participating in a conversation, and inasmuch as technology can play a role in this interaction, it only draws more people in. How does the screen change things? This should have been the question of the last decade, but it appears it will unavoidably be the question of the next. What kind of platforms — social networks, Web, print, multimedia — are we looking at? And how do we move flexibly among them, using each according to its ability and taking from each according to our need?
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So I've been hanging around over at the new All Gay Romance blog, and you should too. (All the cool kids are!) It's an offshoot of the GLBT Bookshelf...Mel Keegan and Co are just so flippin' awesome, aren't they? It's a fiction blog--excerpts, free reads, drabbles, etc. It's not for news, promotions, contests, etc. Just fiction, all free and all the time. Pretty awesome, huh? In keeping with that, I thought it's about time that I wrote another word-prompt ficlet. So hit me with some word prompts (do your worst, I say!) and in a couple days I'll write and post the ficlet to the AGR blog. Hope you're all having a wonderful holiday season!
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Essential reading from Frank Rich on America's "wholesale flight from truth." Dissecting our national magical thinking he reminds readers, "We keep being fooled by leaders in all sectors of American life, over and over." Rich nails Enron, Bush, Iraq, Rove, "reality" tv, Barry Bonds, Ted Haggard, Edwards, Kerik, Spitzer, Madoff, the financial meltdown, balloon boy, Tiger, and Obama. Discuss among yourselves why it's an all male essay.
And the list grows longer every day. Late last week the administration / OPM (headed by openly gay John Berry who previously talked strong but may be morphing into a Barney Frank apologist careerist) has "concluded that it does not have the legal authority" to follow a judge's ruling that they must provide benefits to a lesbian employee's partner. OPM is splitting hairs over the judge's capacity as arbiter rather than ninth circuit judge, presposterously overlooking the fact that this is their own system for settling disputes. Lambda Legal blasts them. Yet again.
thistlerose)Yuletide fic is done, beta read, and ready to be uploaded. Except I just realized it doesn't have a title. Crap. *thinkthinkthink*
Also, I'm thinking about these boots, which I probably shouldn't be doing, since I just bought a computer (which, no, I haven't activated yet). It's just that, my winter boots don't really go with anything. I mean, they're warm and waterproof, but I can't wear them with my long skirts. I mean, I can, but they look silly. They look fairly silly with my jeans, too.
Dilemma!
It's so nice to have a day off. Uh, even though I have a nice long holiday weekend coming up. It's been a long semester.
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With Trauma Team headed for the Wii in Spring of 2010, Atlus apparently realized they've been slacking as far as releasing any assets for the Nintendo sequel, so they offered up a little bit of an early holiday present by dropping some new screenshots on us. There's one from each of the six unique operation types: surgery, diagnostics, forensics, first response, endoscopy and orthopedics. I don't know how I'm going to feel about screwing metal plates to bones, even virtually, but forensics is always cool. Heck, I'd even play an entire game just of that! Forget surgery! Just let me examine some corpses and figure out how they died! Fun for the whole family! (It's also a lot less nerve-wracking when you don't have to worry about your patient dying on you!)