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| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | ||
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kittypix [ kandkl ] |
9:19p | Tests Sorry to spam! I got the go ahead from the people I live with to bring home the kittens. But I still have to get approval from the barn owner. Fingers crossed, pray for me! My question is that if ::knock on wood:: I am able to get them out, what do I need to get them tested for? Besides FLV/FIV. Other than that, is there anything that is mandatory? I live on a budget, unfortunately, and I just need to make sure that the kittens can't give my two other cats anything. I will pour money into getting their fluids up at the vet (how does that work? would they have to stay overnight?) and buying formula/kitten food. Thank you all so much for your help. I appreciate it so much. |
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bad_service [ foofish ] |
9:40p | Freakin' Trans-Bridge bus. ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) |
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treddytrafalgar |
9:42p | Venture Bro.s: "Tears of a Sea Cow" ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) |
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treddytrafalgar |
9:04p | Late Query on Last Week's Web Phenom: ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) |
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gaygeeks [ cypherangel ] |
6:23p | Licking your wound It turns out that licking and sucking on a guy's finger after he nicked his finger while cutting the ingredients for cooking isn't only hot, but good for the wound healing. |
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desdenova |
8:16p | Waaaaaah The flies mounted a counterattack. I came home today to find more flies in my apartment than I have EVER seen in one place. Sprayed Raid in and isolated the bedroom again. Will sleep in living room. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO??? Current Mood:  sad |
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gadarene |
6:14p | Take Me Over Four from Stephanie McKay. I am smitten. Current Mood:  ecstatic |
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jaylake |
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jaylake |
6:09p | [travel] Off again Well, I’m off again at the crack of doom. Heading back to Seattle for tomorrow’s signing with Brenda Cooper at University Books. (Dinner to precede, meet at 5 pm on the corner by the book store, or call me.) I’ll work from the home of the lovely and talented on Friday, then make my way toward the Clarion West party that night before returning home to Nuevo Rancho Lake on Saturday. Got editorial feedback on “In the Forests of the Night”. Somewhat to my amazement, the feedback was positive and quite minimal. I’ll be a lot tougher on myself in the rewrite, frankly. All good. Meanwhile, Green continues apace. This is a pretty good book, truth be told. I’m tired as heck, and the antibiotics make my mouth taste like pennies, but otherwise I feel rather myself tonight. As usual, expect continued light blogging through Sunday. Originally published at jlake.com. You can comment here or there. |
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gaymers [ brigannd ] |
9:09p | Awwwright 1942 Finally! I've been waiting and anticipating this almost as much as Bionic Commando, but this is definitely made of win.  Current Mood: happy |
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scottedelman |
8:46p | 1970 Comic Art Convention Progress Report  For those of you still looking ahead to the 1970 New York Comic Art Convention rather than the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International, here's a sample spread from that earlier con's 8-page progress report to help you with your travel plans. Better make that ... time-travel plans. (Click on the scan once, and then again, to see the image at its largest size.) Check out the upcoming panels, as well as some of the pros who attended the 1969 incarnation of the con. That's Gil Kane and Phil Seuling in the photo at the upper right, and Frank Frazetta and Neal Adams below. And now I really must finish packing for tomorrow morning's flight! (To San Diego, that is.) |
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daveon |
5:37p | Liars... The weather was meant to be nice this afternoon. It's not and I'm feeling crabby. |
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denvention3 [ xanalogica ] |
7:07p | Hotel Room to Transfer to Someone I have a reservation at the Grand Hyatt Denver hotel (#6 on the con map I believe) for dates: Check-in: Tue 05-Aug-2008 Check-out: Mon 11-Aug-2008 2-Double beds, non-smoking room $159/nite I found accomodations in the party hotel and need to transfer this one to a WorldCon person who can use it, or release it into the hotel any-convention oblivion pool. Note that I believe you can reduce but not extend the date range covered if you aren't staying that long. If interested, please contact me at jeff AT taupro DOT com |
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greatblueheron |
8:13p | K in Tuscany More pictures up on Flickr, including this, which is one of my better portraits of K. |
| Thursday, July 24th, 2008 | ||
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deborahb |
9:27a | Out of office message I'll be away from home for the next week, so posting will be light-on. Astute observers of this blog may not, in fact, notice the difference. ;) In other news, I was prepared to be disappointed by The Dark Knight, given the level of hype around it. Particularly around Heath Ledger's penultimate performance. But I can't remember the last time I saw such a display of malevolence on film. Also: like a superhero film for grown-ups. So very much going on, I was exhausted by the end! Also, watching those car chases on the iMax. Yeah. Can make you nauseous. |
| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | ||
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nihilistic_kid |
6:32p | Locals: More Stuff If anyone wants some bookcases, a coffee table, and some little hutches, let me know. I also have a bed and couch, but doubt anyone would want them. |
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kittypix [ sonyaaaaaaaaa ] |
3:06p | Lap kitten still needs home! Just a reminder-- Lyon still hasn't been spoken for yet, and she's still available to anyone who can love her and can pick her up in Orange County, CA. But she has to find a home by Friday, else I seriously will have to put her outside, and I don't know if I'll be able to find her again when I come back, or if she'll want to come back in my apartment again. She is extremely sweet. She just sat in my lap for like an hour. She's also playful and curious, like all healthy kittens are, but when she's not investigating things she seems to want to curl up with a human. She's a great lap cat. ( More pictures ) Please give her a good home! |
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bad_service [ terwashere ] |
2:58p | BARS ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) Current Mood:  pissed off |
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annafdd |
11:03p | Other notable things Today I saw a Zeppelin out the window. It was amazing and majestic and nobody noticed it because it sailed by so silently outside. I rushed to a window to take a photo but my iPhone camera badly let me down. Me and a friend wondered what the proper name was, with him suggesting blimp. He's probably right, but a quick googling showed that this is, indeed, a Zeppelin. As in, built by Zeppelin. It is called Stella Artois offers one-hour tours above London which would be woundrous but do cost 360 pounds. |
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sbisson |
10:48p | Evening light  Taking a break for handling the house server migration, I wandered up to the roof for a brief taste of evening sunlight. The sky was clear and bright, and the London brick of the houses shone red and yellow in the bright light of an English summer... Putney, London July 2008 Current Mood:  busy |
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scottedelman |
5:26p | I'm Comic-Con Bound  I'll be heading off early tomorrow morning (far too early) for this year's San Diego Comic-Con International, which will run through Sunday. I've heard that there will be anywhere from 150,000 to 175,000 people in attendance, a far cry from my first few conventions, at which the membership never even hit four figures.As far as I know, no pictures exist of me from my first convention, which was the 1970 installment of Phil Seuling's famed July 4th New York Comic Art Convention, back when I was only 15. But since I was tall even then, and always sat front-row center so as not to miss a single word at any panel, multiple shots of me at Phil's 1971 convention ended up being published. Click here to see the one I already shared with you, which ended up getting published in the con's 1972 program book. But above right is a second image from that same weekend, possibly from the con's opening ceremonies, which was originally published in the February 1972 issue of Fantastic Fanzine Special #2, an early Gary Groth magazine. If you compare this image with that first one I shared, you'll see that I was probably in the same seat for both pictures. I doubt I got up from that chair the entire day. Once you nab the best seat in the house at a con, you don't give it up!  But that's not the only image from that period of time. Here's yet another picture of me with Phil Seuling, this one originally published in the September 1971 issue of Comic Fandom Monthly, edited by Joe Brancatelli. That's Phil in the far left, and I'm dead center. As you can see, I've still got the long hair and headband!This photo was taken at the Nathan's Famous on Times Square sometime in 1971. The event was basically a small dealer's room tucked away in the back corner of the restaurant 's basement. If I'm remembering correctly, this was a precursor to the Second Sundays that Phil used to run monthly at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. I wrote and published a con report on the first Second Sunday in my own fanzine, Call It Fate, and if I can ever dig out a copy, I should be able to pin down an exact date. But I seem to recall that Phil was testing the waters with this event, attempting to learn whether those Second Sundays would be economically feasible. I remember picking up sketches and autographs at Nathan's from Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, Alan Weiss, Gerry Conway, and others. I still have them all. Maybe you'll get to see them someday. (Bizarrely, I would end up working under three of those four people years later at Marvel Comics.) Both of the photos above show me 37 years ago at the age of 16. Somehow, I don't think that any photo taken at the coming convention over the next four days will carry as much psychic weight when looked back on 37 years from now, when I'm 90. But you never know—I could be wrong. Make sure to check back with me then! |
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kittypix [ gummyneko ] |
2:32p | Stubs loves the boys Stubs loves my brother so much that it is slightly nauseating.   She still doesn't have a forever home, hopefully this coming adoption day will be better... Current Mood:  sleepy |
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annafdd |
10:30p | Weeeeellll No, in the end I didn't go to the BSFA. I was en route for it, but it was so damn hot in the tube, and I was so tired, and the more I thought about it the more I rebelled at the idea of the room at the Antelope. For some reason I intensely dislike that place. It's boiling hot, except when they switch the air conditioning on when it becomes horribly noisy. I can never properly hear the speaker. It's dark and gloomy. And too small. In short, despite the good company and interesting guests, I spent too much time being miserable at the Antelope and today I wasn't in the right mood for physical discomfort. Besides, I thought, if I go home I can write. Did I? No. However, the fact that I am thinking about writing is already I think a good step. |
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kittypix [ kandkl ] |
4:20p | Help! We've run into a crisis of sorts at the barn where I horseback ride. Momma cat Julius was hit by a car two days ago. :( I loved that cat, and am incredibly bummed about it. That, though, is not why I'm here. |
| dsgood | 4:26p | Happy Birthday, oyceter!! |
