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I have an etsy shop again, and my work has improved. Browse away!

Also, I want to do everything I can to break into freelance writing. I'm writing for Constant-Content.com and I want to perhaps try making money blogging. Does anyone reading have any experience with this? Any advice, any useful links, anything at all? Thanks a lot. :)

Man, why write at all anymore? I mean, really?

1) KITTENS.

White splotchy girl, stripy brown boy, siblings, technically named "Scully Patches" and "Mulder Boots" because I promised Matt's siblings I'd let them keep their birth names as middle names. They terrorized Griever the first couple days, ie:

Them: "Love me! Play! Loveplayloveglomp!"

Him: "HSSSSKKKKKHHHSSHHHKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" *run away*

"Loveloveloverubpurr!"

*smack* "HISKSKSKSKSK!" *sprint*

All is well now, though. If either of them needs a bath, I just dump them in front of him and he cleans them head to toe. I think having his balls whacked off really helped his mothering tendencies. He even licks their butts, when he's not busy mewling at the front door.

The littles like to climb into the drawer under the stove through the back and sleep in the pots.

( Yes, you can has pichurs. )

2) APARTMENT.

I moved in the second-last week of August. Matt hated it and we had a big fight because he doesn't think it's good enough for me, but I love the big windows and the clunky radiators and the window in the shower and being on the top floor with a view of the skyline. Fat ancient wood trim and baseboards, in a bachelor with a hall-and-bathoom between the kitchen and the living/bedroom.

This building was the first hotel in the city with a working elevator, and it's still here, transported right from the set of Titanic. The clunk-clunk-clunk used to wake me up in the middle of the night, but now I'm used to it and I shouldn't complain anyway, since the walls are so old they're thick enough to silence a stick of dynamite next door. I haven't heard my neighbours once - it's like I'm here by myself.

Smells vaguely like cat shit and cigarettes most of the time, but me and the plug-in are working hard on that.

The first week I was here, I watched a 45-minute Detroit fireworks show from my bed.

3) NaNoWriMo.

This year's novel is about magicians, time travel, robots and pseudopsychicry. And it's steampunk, sorta. Lead character: The Majestic Merrick Li.

I almost cried a bit. And I feel wonderful.

I can tell I'm about to freshen up my ten-years-stale X-Files obsession. It's not just the reminder brought by the new movie, which I haven't yet seen. It's not just that I found myself searching related books and boxed DVD sets on amazon recently. It's not just that I've been practically obsessed with the skeptical side of the paranormal debate for at least a year. And it's not just the last-century awesomeness of the above video (Pitt on the Fight Club set? Classic).

It's that Matt's torrenting the entire fucking series and I'm going to make him overdose on popcorn with me while we watch it. I'll take the whole thing straight, even if I end up watching it alone (which is very likely to happen by season six).

Yes, I know the reviews promise the new movie will suck. I don't care, just as I refused to consider the terrible reviews of Playing God before deciding to drag my parents to Detroit to see it because it wasn't playing anywhere else within a 500-mile radius.

Last time, I totally empathized with Mulder. This time around, I bet I'll be siding with Scully 90% of the time. Not that she hasn't ALWAYS been a role model for me - I've deliberately stolen her hairstyle. Or April O'Neil's. Whatever.

( ZOMG WHEE! )

Watch all three, 'cause they'll be gone in a few hours.

It's Serenity. :P

I also made a ninja turtle, a chocobo, and a cait sith. ^_^

Jade - a friend from work - and I have been busy bees the past month or so.

We made a website. It's a gaming/tecchie online magazine. It's a lot of work, but it's nice. He codes (built the whole thing from scratch, no templates), and I boss him around. We only have two writers so far - us - but a considerably satisfying smattering of articles, as well as a forum and an archive.

We're looking for writers. While we can't pay right now, we're offering regular front page views, an in-depth author page, and the prestige of, well, doing us a huge favor. If you've got an idea or an interest within the subject range that you'd like to write about, let me know in the comments. Be warned - I'm still a stickler for quality. :P

My next article is going to be an overview of the most drooltastic Steampunk PC Mods around. Steampunk is the world I want to live in - I'm in LOVE with this stuff - but I don't want to rank my favourites alone. I've posted a poll at the forums. Please join the forums to vote and discuss. I need to come up with a great article!

Thanks, all!

(The Daily Dave Deathmatch will continue eventually, I promise. :P)

And I thought my hangover was bad before I hit digg's front page.

Darlin' Carlin's officially a legend. In case it wasn't official before. The sweet part is that he is totally flooding my friends page.

I may be about to make my first iTunes purchase.

Past deathmatches:
Chappelle wins, 7 - 3.
Bowie wins, 10 - 2.

Thomas (1)

or Thomas (2) ?

Vote!
(another 24 hrs)

Last deathmatch:
Bowie wins, 10 - 2.

Chappelle

or Foley?

Vote!
(another 24 hrs)

Bowie

or Copperfield?

C'mon, gimme enough votes to make a tournament out of this.

(Voting for this Deathmatch ends at 2am eastern time, June 14, 2008)

Here's the plan:

1) Make The Hunger Site your browser homepage. When the site is open, below the Address bar in your browser, click Tools - Internet Options - (under the 'homepage' heading) - Use Current.

2) Click the big yellow button.

3) Go through the other tabs at the top of the page (Breast Cancer, Child Health, Literacy, Rainforest, Animal Rescue), and click their respective big buttons.

4) Repeat steps 2 and 3 every time your browser loads. Takes five seconds. Note - clicking on the sponsors that appear after clicking the buttons earns some extra revenue, so hitting a sponsor after hitting each big button's a good idea.

Here's what Snopes says about it. It's a small amount of money per click, but hey, why not?

Feeling down? Check out a conglomerate of fantasy news stories at this If-Only Google News page.

None of them are true, but I feel warm and fuzzy inside anyway. I also want to cry a little.









especially about the Serenity sequel

Math can be sexy!



heart

It's the fall of the fuzzy grey-and-white wall between "old movies" and "real movies." I mean oh my god, Bogart made mistakes? :P