I got blocked by someone on Facebook today whom I've been acquainted with for several years. This is the third "friend" I've lost in about two weeks. All have been people I've been acquainted with for a long time. Overall, I've lost a lot of people in the last few months. It takes seconds for friendships to end there. Someone you've never had a ( Read more... )

As you may have heard, Myspace is all but dead in the water and now Justin Timberlake is buying it.

I tried to use Myspace when I first got my fiction published but I couldn't keep up with it. The site's heyday as a promotional forum for artists was already long past and it was just a less user-friendly version of every other blog site. Surprisingly ( Read more... )

Fantasy author Dru Pagliassotti (whose fiction I recommend,) shares some interesting thoughts on social media as a form of personal property. Fairly short yet very worth reading.

For a moment I was habitually going to post the link on Facebook without even thinking about it. Then I realized that would be kind of hypocritical for the point I'm ( Read more... )

Yesterday I scored a used copy of Kate Bush's 1989 album The Sensual World. I got it mostly for the lead single "Love and Anger" which is just one of "those" songs that gets inside you and stays with you through the years. But it also contains a very interesting song called "Deeper Understanding." This song tells the story of a lonely, emotionally ( Read more... )

Former Arkansas governor/Conservative commentator/Potential Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee believes Natalie Portman may be setting a bad example by being pregnant out of wedlock.

Fortunately, Natalie is more than capable of defending herself. Here are her NSFW thoughts on being a role model and all the kids looking up to her.

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( Nah, just kidding. I totally didn't write this. )

Weird work scheduel today. I don't go in untl 6 pm and only work four-and-a-half hours. So I'm taking advantage of the afternoon. Since it's payday I've mailed off this week's batch of bills. Today I paid off one of the bills that's in collection. It was the smallest one but it still feels like real progress and everything else looks slightly less ( Read more... )

To lazy even to write a Mary Sue? Pay someone to do it and have them fill in the blanks with your name!

Is there a way to have your LJ posts x-posted to Facebook? Sad as it is, I think people read way more over there than they do here now and I want to keep up with them without abandoning my beloved LJ. Cutting and pasting the same post to both places seems tacky to me and is probably annoying to readers of post. If there's a cross-post link method ( Read more... )

Well the flap came and went about LJ allegedly forcing you to specify your gender. Turns out it was a coding mistake or some such. Imagine that! LJ did something that actually wasn't part of a nefarious plot to anger their user bse. Oh wait, actually that turns out to be the case with just about everything that gets people threatening to leave LJ ( Read more... )