The LJ Idol topic this week was "Some Assembly Required," so I came up with a totally unknown world with something very unusual happening but told with minimal descriptions and no written dialogue -- so far the feedback has been good. Click here and judge for yourself.

And if you are in therealljidol community (and why wouldn't you be?) you can vote in the poll ( Read more... )

My father liked the name "Charles," and my first little brother was to have that name -- got two sisters instead (one who told college friends about this and became known to them as "Charlie"). My growing up was a mix of good and bad, but epithets thrown my way did include questioning my sexuality. Music was (and is) a huge part of my life and was ( Read more... )

The holiday break over, I got back into the groove of writing entries for LJ Idol. At the end of the contest's break period, I wrote an entry for one of the "free topics," then we were assigned an official contest week with the topic: Counterintuitive.

Here was my entry. You didn't get to vote on it because Gary declared a Contestant Only vote, ( Read more... )

IT

HAS

BEGUN

My first entry in the new season of LJ Idol is here.

Other entries are here.

Voting info coming next week.

Enjoy!

As many know, I'm big into the LJ Idol -- contestant, home-gamer, etc. -- and the Sign-up for Season Eight is underway. I encourage everyone to consider joining -- everyone gets so much out of the experience.

So, does that mean I'm taking part as well?

Actually "beldar" is not. Meaning this livejournal account (except for some Green Room appearances ( Read more... )