Atlanta Littles Munch - Saturday, November 21st @ 1:30 - Please Cross-post

It's almost time for the next Atlanta Littles Munch! Come enjoy a meal and conversation with littles such as adult babies, school kidz, lolitas, teenz, and babyfurs as well as bigs, friends, the curious, and everyone in between.

Going to the zoo take two! We wanted to do this last month, but the weather didn’t cooperate. So let’s give it one more shot before it gets too cold.

Newbie Meet: The munch hosts will be happy meet with any new folks that want to arrive a little bit early and get comfortable before the munch begins. See the munch web site for details please email the munch host to RSVP.

Get all the munch details including location, time, play party info, an FAQ, and more but going here: http://www.littlesmunch.com/content/atlantalittlesmunch/

Finally, if you need additional information or have questions, you can contact me at spacey@TheGhidrah.com

Hope to see you soon!
spacey - Adopted by Marie

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Orgy! The 1970s Board Game! http://bit.ly/13UkNd (fer reals, y'all)
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@shadow27 I'm 1st gen American from Danish stock, but apparently we can go back 7-8 generations to an Archbishop in Sweden.
My father was our family historian, and when he passed away, my mom cut a lot of ties to his side of the family out of grief.  being half-way round the world from them doesn't help much, so a lot of the family history I know is oral, and could be wrong.  And as I really don't have any intention of procreating, the line kind of stops with me (my sister was always more likely to have kids than I was, but still not sure if she plans on doing it this late in the game).  This is why friends have always been family.

I really need to do a FollowFriday post today -- I'm a couple of weeks behind!
And I forgot to do it AGAIN.  I suck. 

No wait, I'm a REBEL!  Deliberately defying social networking conventions!  Forging my own internet trail!  Bah on your Follow Friday!

No, wait.  I just suck.

RT @ SyFy This John Barrowman (Cptn Jack from Torchwood) dance video is truly made of awesome - http://bit.ly/14S7f7

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Yay! Only a mild snotfest in mah nose this AM! And it's Friday!
Some days you just can't ask for more than that!

More info on November gigs can be found on my LJ! http://bit.ly/3uldHP Links, flyers, etc   
Self promotion is FUN!
 
OMG OMG OMG! @DJKangal and @thatDJSpider, reunited on the decks for Spellbound in DC on 11/28! CHAOS AND FUN!!! :)
I am so super excited about this gig it's not even funny.  Fer reals.
 
Oh wow @SyFy: http://bit.ly/wxdxR Ghost Hunters XXX parody?
*sigh*  There are times that I get embarrassed by the industry I'm in.  Reach much?
 
NOVEMBER GIGS! 11/21 - Return of the Bats (CLT), 11/25 - RetroActive Reunion (CLT), 11/28 - Spellbound 3rd Annual Freak Bazaar (DC)
Again with the self promo!
 
Head of concrete snot beginning the inevitable slide into my lungs. But I don't feel as hot or burned out, so off to work I'll go.
I'm pretty amazed at how well my mom's remedy's worked this time.  I doubt it was a full flu,probably a mild cold type thing, but pretty positive it was precipitated by the flu shot the Thursday prior.
 
@yayahan "Squirrel!" :) But the opening was just beautifully done, and I totally cried when she died.
PIxar released Up on DVD this week, and petzilla and I caught it in the theater when it first came out and were totally taken with it.  Highly recommended, for the beauty, the humor and the sadness.

Watching Int'l House Hunters on HGTV since they're in my "hometown" of St Thomas. But wow -- forgot about the prices!
$425k for 1400sqft -- eep! Cinderblock design due to hurricane protection, but it can always be prettier than what they're showing :(
But it's balancing homes with stuff like this: http://bit.ly/3opUmk
I try to keep an ear pricked for anything related to my hometown of St. Thomas, USVI.  When I saw that House Hunters International was doing some vacation/tropical homes, I had to tune in.  On one hand, it makes me a little nostalgic for home, and on the other I am so very content and happy here in Charlotte that it seems more and more like a fantasy in my mind. I also know that I was incredibly lucky, growing up where I did in the area of the island that I did.  Most of the homes are concrete block based in order to battle potential hurricanes, but my home is predominately natural stone, which gives it a more organic feel.

Still, many of these boxy concrete multi-family homes go for $300k+ based on the fact that land itself is at a premium on the island, when they actually would probably be worth half that in any other location.  I was actually a little embarrassed by the homes they were showing, mostly due to mismatched tile and kitchens, probably because people tend to fix what they can afford, not what the resale value will be.  But I felt so snobby thinking this.  Either I've gotten too hooked on HGTV or I really need to go home and revisit my roots.
 
RT @petzilla DJ's & SheJ's - Best Buy is aiming to become a destination for DJs http://tiny.cc/Jngzt - Lady Gaga in the geek squad
Mixed feelings on this.  It reminds me of the Hot Topic debate -- "Oh awesome, they're opening a Hot Topic in the mall!" "Aw. crap, there goes our scene".  When you give a specialty area a mass-market push, there are bound to be things that will be sacrificed, some quality, etc.  But just as I have no problem stopping by HT in the mall when I 'm looking for something, I'll probably stop by BB when I need to replace headphones or cables, and I need to replace my gear at some point, so we'll see what they can carry and/or put on sale.
 
Mom's Cure-All #2 - drink a beer as hot as you can stand it (you honestly can't feel any worse!)
Mom's Cure All - Shot glass with tbsp honey, tbsp lemon juice, 1 crushed garlic clove, top with ice cold akvavit. Do 4x a day
When sick, mom tends to rely on these kinds of things rather than buying NyQuil, etc.  And a lot of the Scandinavian fix-its seem to involve alcohol as well -- p'raps to keep you insensible :)  I don't know if it's purely psychosomatic, but damned if they don't work.
  
Trying to work from home, though one nostril seems to be on perma-leak status, and I keep clearing my throat w/out a full cough "Ggertt"
"Ggertt" seems to be the closest approximation to the mild clearing-of-the-throat noise I can come up with.   I'm pretty proud of that noise verbalization in print, actually (I'm easily amused.  Shush). And the fact that one side of my face needed to have a tissue rammed up it to stop it up was irritating seeing as earlier that day I wrote...
 
But WOW I hate sinus pressure and swollen nose-guts. When I blow it, stuff is supposed to come OUT, not fail to budge. :(
You know this feeling -- you're stuffy and blocked, but you blow and blow and nothing comes out?  Yeah.  Hate that.
 
Still battling this quasi-sick thing. May just do the essentials today and then head home from work to NyQuil it out. We'll see.
By lunch, I was a solid block of concrete in my head, hot and cross-eyed.  And I was supposed to sit in a weekly meeting that afternoon with some of the bigger players in the company right now,and getting them sick would probably be a bad idea (in that semi-sick cranky bosses tend to take it out on their team, so one virus affects way too many people -- multiplies my guilt HUGE!)

@DASBUNKER Damn...day before my birthday :( How much fun would that be?
Das Bunker in LA was looking for female DJs for a January 15th date.  And while that would have been fun, I'm about as industrial as tinfoil these days, so file under "Hallo Pipe Dream"
 
New Clash of the Titans trailer http://bit.ly/3PiFpw MIA - one mechanical owl :(
I remember the original Clash of the Titans vaguely, and the owl sticks in my mind more than anything else.  And of course we roll our eyes now at the special effects. But I've always been a sucker for Greek mythology, and I have to admit the trailer looks pretty dam good.

the skits we're doing this time rock and we're putting in special viking metal holiday music as well. don't miss out december 12th at the visualite.

So, who all is coming out to the pj party tonight? its at the frolicon host hotel :)

On Thursday, I sent the proposal for Blood Oranges (working title, and almost certainly not the book's final title) to my agent. And now I'm waiting to hear back from her. I was hoping I'd get her thoughts before the weekend, but, alas, no. So...I wait. If she likes it as is, it will be sent along to my editor at Penguin. If Merrilee says the proposals needs work, I'll revise it, then send it back to her again.

As of yesterday, it's been four years since I finished Daughter of Hounds, which I began writing in the autumn of 2004. This time last year, I'd just finished The Red Tree, late in October, and was working on a short story, "The Collier's Venus." And now, here I am trying to find my way into the Next Novel, which I probably "should" have begun writing back in June. But my novels come slowly. I seem to be good for about one every two years. Well, that depends what you count and what you don't. If we say I've written seven novels— which is what I'd say —they have been written over a period of seventeen years. Which is, what? A novel, on average, every 2.4 years. Which seems entirely reasonable to me, especially given that, since 1993, I've also written and sold something 175 short stories, novellas, comic scripts, and vignettes.

Anyway...

Yesterday, I didn't write. Yesterday was cold and windy grey, the clouds low and threatful. And we went to an afternoon matinée of Roland Emmerich's 2012. A stupid, stupid, stupid movie. But, it is enjoyable on a certain level, that level wherein I derive a perverse glee from seeing all human civilization reduced to ruin and rubble, while almost seven billion people die screaming in convulsions of fire and water. It was stupid, but it was pretty. Stupid and pretty. I found it painful watching John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor trapped in the thing. At least John Cusack was allowed to be a bit lighthearted. Poor Ejiofor had to play the whole silly mess with a straight (and grim) face. I will say that Woody Harrelson was hilarious, and if only the film had given him a larger part, it would have been quite a bit more worthwhile. Has anyone else noticed that Emmerich keeps making the same film over and over and over, and that these films essentially adhere to a formula begun almost forty years ago, with Airport (1970) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972)? The last forty minutes or so of 2012 (the film was probably an hour too long, by the way) might almost be viewed as a cynical, hamfisted remake of George Pal's When World's Collide (1951). And did I mention this is a stupid film? No? I mean, it's like Emmerich hired a team of astrophysicists, planetologists, geologists, and engineers as consultants, then did exactly the opposite of whatever they advised. I was amused with Ebert giving the film 3.5 stars (out of 4), reasoning that "2012 delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year." Yes, it's big, dumb fun. Just check your brain at the box office, or it won't be.

Last night, there was a fire in the house next door. Spooky and I heard an odd pop, and ten minutes or so later, the block was surrounded by fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances, and smoke was pouring from our neighbor's roof. We went downstairs. The night was cold and wet, and we watched the firemen and the chaos. It appears the fire was started by a faulty lamp short-circuiting, something like that. No one was hurt. All the pets were evacuated. Today, there's a truck pumping water out of the basement. My impression is that the damage from the fire was minimal, but the smoke and water damage must have been quite substantial. There are a few photos behind the cut:

( 13 November 2009 )

riding around in a black truck loaded down with bondage equipment through small towns heading for the lab blasting helltrash. weird looks from the locals.
i'm so damned excited about Decadence Project on New Year's Eve that i can't stand it. i want to push the fast forward button and throw the party NOW!

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