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[cleolinda]

I have felt like crap all day, including but not limited to breaking out in a cold sweat at the grocery store and nearly blacking out, so you're going to have to wait a bit longer for the Lost recap.

Mom's having knee surgery tomorrow. It's a short, common procedure, and she'll be back at work on Monday. But still. I'm probably going to be running around for her a good bit this weekend, so you may not hear from me much. Or maybe you will. There's no telling.

(Have been having weird food cravings all day--starch, mostly. I really, really wanted bread pudding or rice pudding, which is really weird considering that I've never had bread pudding or rice pudding. I also felt a deep urge to try out a shortbread recipe [can you make shortbread with margarine, or is there just really no point to that? I can't remember if Sister Girl has any more butter around from baking or not] and possibly a gingerbread recipe to take to class. You know, when I have it again next week. Why am I so bake-y all of a sudden? And then I found englishteastore.com and was in big trouble. Which reminds me: 101 Great British Foods, a must-read.)

Got a Click-n-Ship notification for a BPAL order, which is exciting--it might be the big Carnaval Noir order I made a while back.

Also got an email from my editor, who says that my copies of the book are on the way over. That's going to be surreal. If I can get my camera phone to work (it works; it just doesn't want to send pics to my email so I can post them, which is kind of the point of having it), I'll post a picture of them when they get here.

Linkspam:

Had a request last night, so: Charlie makes faces at the baby, who seriously does have a turniphead.

"The Feel Good Hit Of The Summer!"

Flight attendants outraged over Jodie Foster film. (Warning: major spoilers, apparently.)

The Penny Arcade boys vs. Harlan Ellison. "I said that I had [in fact 'at least finished high school'], but you couldn’t really hear me because the audience is laughing at me along with Harlan. So once they stop, I turn to him and I say, 'While I’ve got you here I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Star Wars stuff you wrote.'" OH NOOOOO.

*writes that one down*

(I in no way condone PA fans' subsequent trolling on Ellison's website or the remarks about his wife. I'm just saying.)

It's Banned Book Week and nobody told me! Bonus: Astonishingly stupid reasons why these books were challenged.

And now I'm off to find something to eat. Be afraid.




   

Comments

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Hope your mom's surgery goes well, and she's back on her feet real soon.

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

IMHO, never sub margarine for butter when baking. If you're wanting to make something nummy and delicious, it just cuts it off at the knees.


And THANK YOU for the Charlie pictures.


Also, plz do not die.

[notalent.livejournal.com]

Anyword on US release of your book? Hope you feel better, and wait to see corpse bride. So not paying for

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to die. : )

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No word yet. :/

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Actually, the problem's going to be keeping her down. We all have bets on how early in the day on Friday she's going to attempt to start cleaning the house.

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

Ellison will get midly bent out of shape if you so much as call him a "science fiction writer", because a writer just writes regardless of the genre or something. Using the word "sci-fi" is like firing point blank at a powder keg.

Good luck on your mom's surgery, and I hope you feel better.

[handlet.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I saw that recut "Shining" trailer earlier today, but I just had to click the link again. So funny! I love the use of "Solsbury Hill."

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

First off, hope your mom's surgery goes well!!

Second, speaking as an Ellison fan of many years, I read that PA account and it didn't wash with me, so I went to Ellison's message board and read his explanation, and that's the one I can believe. From reading his writings, he always struck me as someone who would zap you completely-- if you did something to deserve it, not just out of the blue.

And yay! Banned Books week! Time to update my to-check-out list. ;-)

[tania.livejournal.com]

Feel better, girl, and good luck to your mum!

Those wacky PA guys. ^_^;

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same here.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

*s*

And this all reminded me of a minor-amusement moment . . . my father has done a couple of book trades with Ellison, and one time when I was about nine he called the house to finalize one of those, and I answered the phone. My eyes just about bugged out of my head. LOL I handed the phone to dad and whispered, "Harlan Ellison's on the phone!!!" Dad was trying so hard not to laugh at me. One of the main surreal moments of my young life. :-D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have a hard time buying Ellison's explanation that he honestly wanted to know about Gabe's education, though. Over on the FW (otf_wank? one of those) page, several people are like, "I love his stuff, but... yeah, the man's an ass. That's why people love him."

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

It is true....unfortunately, sometime over the years, he went from thinking, "People love my work, and I am also an ass", to "People love me, *because* I am an ass." But his writing wrocks.

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

Fall always makes me bake-y too, I think it's my subconscious telling me to plump up for winter. As if I need to be told. I have a great gingerbread recipe (not cookie gingerbread, loafy gingerbread), if you require one.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

That did seem a bit of a non sequiter, yah. LOL

I just read the whole story at PA with the guy almost seeming like he was proud of not knowing who this "old man" was, and I just had to think, "Dude, maybe you're not a teenager, but using 'old' as a constant insult sure makes you seem like one."

Though I grew up reading essays from The Glass Teat and I've never read PA, so . . . admittedly biased reader, here. :-)

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon!

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

My parents took me to DragonCon in 1998. I was 17, my sister was 13. I was running all over the con with online buddies from the PernMU*s I played in those days. My folks, meanwhile, went with sister to go see the Harlan Ellison panels, getting strange looks from everyone (including HE himself) in the process. That's...yeah, just about the only experience I have, and I wasn't even there. ;)

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Hang in there - please don't die - we will survive the wait for lost-y cleoish goodness.

I would bribe you with shortbread but it never ships well and i fear you would not be impressed with a box of crumbs.

[kilted.livejournal.com]

I've read (or have had read to me) 11 books on that list at least. I own even more than that... haha

Feel better and can't wait for your book to come out!

[mokeyhokey.livejournal.com]

Cold sweat, nearly blacking out and a craving of starchy foods sounds like a blood sugar crash. Were you nauseated and/or shaky too?

My body enjoys hating me and likes to do this from time for no reason other than vexing me. Goodtimes.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm actually looking for cookies, since we're reading House of Seven Gables and Hepzibah has gingerbread animals in her cent-shop, but loafy is also good. : )

[khaman.livejournal.com]

Yay, BPAL!

I'm so saddened that the Carnaval is over simply because Gypsy Queen rocks so hard. Hope you get some that work for you!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did think it was a little odd that he didn't know who Harlan Ellison was.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'll be fine. Besides, I just passed a whole shelf full of Walker shortbread at the store today, so it's not like I couldn't buy it if I wanted to. : )