Okay, I realize that many of you are still Christmas shopping, and this won't actually be out by then. But you could give someone a card saying it's coming or buy it for someone for Valentine's Day, as it should be out by then. (It may say something odd about me that I can actually see this being a completely reasonable Valentine's Day present ( Read more... )

For those of you who like Seanan McGuire's music, but don't follow her journal every day. Red Roses and Dead Things is now available for pre-order. This is her album of all mad science and horror all the time. (Well, okay, and some real science, in that I believe The Black Death is on there, too.) For that matter this also goes in case there's ( Read more... )

This post from my friend really concerns me. Not her response to the situation, but the situation itself. I'm not sure how I'd deal with being told that I had to trap, transport, and kill a possibly rabid animal which had stumbled into my backyard, and I don't have two small children to think of. All in all, I find it worrisome ( Read more... )

One of my friends has an interesting poll going over on her livejournal about various common ideologies. If you have the time to answer a bunch of questions (and maybe kibitz a bit), wander over here. Okay, so it's actually a series of polls, because LJ only lets you have five questions, but details.

For some reason I thought I'd posted this before, but I can't find it, so maybe I was pimping earlier stuff. vixyish has a bunch of art up for sale in her blog, here. Most of the pictures available are from her 'iron doodler' series or from a series of 'storybook children' she did at one point. they're all alot of fun. As much as I love some of her ( Read more... )

Okay, I think I have a userpic space open again (and if not I will soon - yay ever increasing userpic space, even if it's slow ( Read more... )

For those of you not reading Serrana's journal. (well, journal feed.) She wrote an entry noting a major problem with the way LJ handles image posts. (Namely, that unless you opt out, it sticks the 'latest posts' into a feed... which someone has developed a viewer for.. a viewer which gives no copyright information or even attribution. And which ( Read more... )

To combat grumpy joyless days ( Read more... )

One of my friends has some jewelry up for sale over here on etsy. And if you haven't seen Etsy before or wandered around there, it's kind of fun.

Also cadhla has a number of art auctions and sales running on her blog to help facilitate plane tickets. I meant to post something about it earlier and simply forgot. But if you like her art, this is a ( Read more... )

So this was originally going to be just me replying to comments on the original post, but a) a different version of the compliment meme started going around, b) there were some other people on my friends list who needed to be told that they /are so/ cool and that this does not set them somehow apart or make me resent them, and c) I ended up getting ( Read more... )