In praise of the name of Buffy.
Same authors: in praise of Deadwood and The Simpsons.
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What's Going On
- Advent Calendars 2015
A list. - I won NaNo 2014
- NaNoWriMo 2014
- I won NaNo 2013
- NaNoWriMo
- 2012 Ravellenic Games!
- Camp NaNoWriMo
- NaNoWriMo
- 2010 Ravelympics!
- My Swurl page
Aggregates a bunch of journal-y blog entries together. Convenient! - Ravelympics
Knitting and crochet and all kinds of projects, competing to be finished within two weeks and change!
- National Novel Writing Month
- Saturn Return Can Bite Me
My beta test blog over on Vox, astrology-related. - Knitting Olympics 2006
I was a gold medalist!
- The Spanglemonkey Awards 2005
Best Internet Variety Show (and Good Luck Getting Anything Done, Ever) in 2005! - My Bloglines blogroll.
Fine. There you go. - I am the Minister of Chaos
Like you were surprised to hear it. Heh. - My Blog Threat Level Is:
- The Feminist Valentine Blog Awards.
- The Spanglemonkey Awards
* Spanglemonkey's Best Site From Which to Steal Links Shamelessly in 2004
* Best Blog Title Based on Ian Malcolm's Dialogue in Jurassic Park, in 2004 - BugMeNot
Be a rebel. Screw registering. Read stuff. - Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled
My new craft blog, to give the "Craft Projects" photo album a bit of purpose. - Speed-Reading Book Nerd Reviews
Yes, I started a booklog, mostly for summer reading. Eventually, I'll even add reviews to it. - My NaNoWriMo Novel Site
If you're interested in that sort of thing.
Quotes
- Christina Long (Washington Post)
“WHY ARE NONE OF MY INTERESTS WORTH ANYTHING IN DOLLARS,” - Michael Diamond:
“People get frustrated when they can’t see the future,” says Diamond. “The future looks scary if you’re telling them it’s just staying at home for the next 12 to 18 months. You shouldn’t really be that surprised when at least a fraction of them get angry." - Seanan McGuire:
"Please stop trying to solve me. I'm not a problem." - Morrie Morgan, in "Work Song" by Ivan Doig:
"I don't know any cure for being myself. The lotion for that hasn't been concocted yet." - Jason Mendoza:
“Sometimes you just gotta huck a Molotov cocktail at a drone and see what happens.” - Augusten Burroughs:
"But impossible is a concept that makes one's heart laugh and throw peanuts at the television." - Augusten Burroughs:
"Even if things aren't catastrophic now, catastrophe has always followed me. Life unfolds, right? All the time, it's unfolding, and I'm going to follow it." - Augusten Burroughs:
"My life has never really been “happily ever after.” I’ve always had conflict and disaster follow me around like a shadow, and I can’t really believe that will suddenly stop now that I’m happily living in Connecticut with three dogs. We’re just going to have to see." - Jacqui:
“If you have a job where you’re not coming home with stories, it’s time to leave. That simply is our qualification. Healthcare helps. Benefits are nice, but oh my god, how do you not come home with stories? It is the easiest qualification, but it’s true. My feeling is if you don’t have a story, it wasn’t a good day." - armeowda:
"Many people can cast their affections broad and bright as floodlights, but others of us are laser beams, and when something actually trips our attraction/affection sensors it can feel like a certain kind of instant precision strike, and it can leave a mark forever." - Stan Tatkin
"There's actually nothing more difficult on the planet than another person." - Lani Diane Rich:
"What doesn't kill you makes you stranger." - Heather Havrilesky:
"Do they let me write these words because I’m good at it, or do they let me do it because I’m an entertainingly crazy person who is slowly but surely unraveling before 50,000-to-100,000 sets of eyeballs each week?" - Justin Peters:
"The simple lesson that Millionaire taught me is that if you want to change your life—either by winning a lot of money on television or by some more prosaic means—at some point you are going to have to take a risk. Unless you are John Carpenter, you will eventually have to step into the unknown, bet on yourself, and hope that you are making the right decision." - Leslie Jones
"Women are the same as humans." - Anne Lamott:
“If you’re paying attention and making your own life as beautiful and rich and fun as it can be, you might just attract someone who’s doing the same thing,” she said. “You can give up on tracking someone down with your butterfly net.” “Never give up, no matter how things look or how long they take. Don’t quit before the miracle.” - Seanan McGuire:
"If what I say doesn’t help you, ask someone else, until you find the person whose reply tells you how to kick the damn door down." - Grangousier:
"It's 2018. There's a realistic chance of pretty much anything happening if it's ridiculous enough." - Joy:
"I feel a constant low level of stress every day, just by virtue of existing in my environment," - Fancy Feast:
"When she was on a bad date, she would go to the bathroom, hit her nose until she got a nosebleed, and excuse herself, because it was easier to punch herself in the face than suffer the consequences of rejecting a man." - Ber:
"Get your freak on, screw the powers that would deny you." - Lee Bradford:
"Lee? Why does all this weird shit only seem to happen to you? Well, disembodied voice from nowhere-statistically, it has to happen somewhere." - David Neal:
“Nobody told us that our ‘15 Minutes of Fame’ would include shaming, insults, threats, etc. And that we might not have even asked for it.” - Debbie Harry (???)
“Chaos is a great factor in making art happen." - Jason Cochran:
"So don’t be impatient about your own life. It takes a lifetime, sometimes, to reach your destiny." - Jason Cochran:
"Dreams do come true, and sometimes wilder than anyone could have imagined them, but sometimes they have to lay dormant—or get left behind, or rot, or even be given to someone else—for a long time before they can." - Jason Cochran:
"The lesson, of course, is to always be patient. Things will change. Laughingstocks can become icons. Even when things look bleak, or when you can’t envision the path forward, or when your idea appears to be so detested that all hope is gone, you can eventually come through and create something enduring to be proud of. Liberty can take its sweet time.' - David Wong:
"As a result, if you are a public person in 2018, you will at some point be used as a punching bag by a bunch of strangers. That's the purpose you'll serve in their life, a thing they can hate without risk, and then forget about. It's part of the tradeoff of being a public person, and oh by the way, in the social media era, everyone is a public person." - Livia:
"here's the thing about adulthood: you will go for like three months with nothing happening and you’re bored as hell and then in the span of two weeks eight different things happen at once - some fantastic and some shitty and some just plain bonkers - and you’re just running around like a chicken with your head cut off and no clue what the fuck is going on" - Seanan McGuire:
“I went to the Raptor Center and my friend was injured” isn’t funny. “And then Brooke took a FALCON to the FACE” is funny. It’s all a matter of word choice." - Alison Green:
"Humans are weird! So weird, in so many different ways. Often that weirdness is hidden and comes out in ways that shock and disappoint you, after the person lulled you into thinking you knew what to expect from them. So it’s lovely when someone wears their weirdness like a peacock’s plumes, right there for all to see from the get-go." - Cecil, Welcome to Night Vale:
"The problem wasn’t solved, but most problems don’t get solved. I mean, generally we just do our best to mitigate the problem, and if it can’t be mitigated, then it can be relegated to a background noise by pleasant distractions and a prioritization of interests." - "It does seem sometimes like life toggles between boring and flat-out mystifying."-Carolyn Hax
- Sarah Silverman:
"Nothing’s more attractive than an unending monologue about your shortcomings." - Carolyn Hax:
"Sometimes surrendering to the awful is more useful than fighting it." - Graham Joyce:
"why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?" - Dan Harmon:
"I believe in magic. I believe in mythology. I believe in shamanism. I believe that spells can be cast and I believe that random things coalesce and reveal themselves to be part of a plan we don’t control, you know." - Nora Ephron:
"Never turn down a front-row seat for human folly." - McAlvie
"The ultimate downfall of modern civilization won't be war; it'll be Twitter and Facebook." - Jenny Zhang:
"A lot of writers swear by routine, but I swear by chaos. There’s enough fucking routine in my life. Every day I have to brush my teeth. Every day I have to smile at strangers. Every day I have to worry about money. Every day I want something I can’t have. Every day I find some way to go on! I know that writing every day for an hour would help me tremendously with writer’s block, but I also know that I need an element of wildness in my writing. I need to know that writing is something I do because it sets me free. It makes me feel golden with confidence. It gives me the gift of gab. I feel like a god. I feel like an entertainer. So write when you damn well please."
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April 2017
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Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled
Speed-Reading Book Nerd Reviews
Speed-Reading List
- Jim Butcher: Battle Ground
Reviewed October 21. (***) - Jim Butcher: Peace Talks
Reviewed October 17. (***) - Chuck Tingle: Not Pounded By Anything While I Practice Responsible Social Distancing
Reviewed October 6. (***) - Sarah Henning: The Princess Will Save You
Reviewed September 27. (***) - Sarah Pinsker: A Song For A New Day
Reviewed September 22. (***) - John Scalzi: Murder By Other Means
Reviewed September 19. (****) - Seanan McGuire: A Killing Frost
Reviewed September 16. (****) - Rachel Schurig: A Ransom Christmas
Reviewed September 15. (****) - John Scalzi: The Last Emperox
Reviewed September 7. (****)
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