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greygirlbeast

Howard Hughes and the Little White Pills

May 06, 2009 11:37

Last night...no, this morning, the insomnia laughed at enough pills to put a horse in a coma. I finally got to sleep sometime after four ayem.

Yesterday was the sort of last-minute tedium I'd expected, getting the galley pages of The Red Tree ready to go back to Manhattan, the long letter I had to write detailing why I'd made the changes that I'm ( Read more... )

proofreading, blogging long-term, sirenia, poppy, paleo, gaming, the red tree

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fornikate May 6 2009, 17:57:36 UTC

I found a typo on page 14 of Alabaster.

fornikate May 6 2009, 17:58:50 UTC

Stupid Firefox.
I haven't been getting as many emails or comments, either. I wonder if people have sacrificed the internet to the gods of the recession.

greygirlbeast May 6 2009, 18:08:11 UTC

I found a typo on page 14 of Alabaster.

Amazing.

fornikate May 6 2009, 18:15:10 UTC

Argh, my comments are being eaten

sovay May 6 2009, 18:01:59 UTC

But, by three o'clock or so, it was done, and Spooky ferried the corrected pages away to the post office.

Mazel tov. I hope to read it-in proper book form-soon.

Oh, and I've not left the house since April 30th.

Psst. Boston.

Finally, is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that comments to posts on LJ are dropping off.

I don't know if I'm commenting less than I used to, but I know that I post less often; I used to spam my friendlist with everything that crossed my radar of interest, and now I find myself shying away from links or thoughts or rambles, as if no one else would be interested (or as if that should stop me: I mean, what else is a blog of one's own for?). I haven't been keeping track of the numbers on my own journal. I hope it's not Twitter-related. I'm not sure the online attention span can get much shorter without running into some serious brain-chemistry problems.

greygirlbeast May 6 2009, 18:09:31 UTC

I'm not sure the online attention span can get much shorter without running into some serious brain-chemistry problems.

But blog entries are so looooonnnnngggg...

Really, I don't know if Twitter is tied into this at all. I just can't pass up an opportunity to demonize Twitter.

sovay May 6 2009, 19:01:26 UTC

I just can't pass up an opportunity to demonize Twitter.

Hey, I'm good with that.

docbrite May 6 2009, 18:11:20 UTC

Sure. The proposal was written in July and August of 1995. It would have been a story called Dead Kids, about secret government projects and toxic waste spawning cannibalistic zombie street kids in New Orleans. I still have the various incarnations of the proposal, and I might even toss it into the next issue of Sirenia Digest, if Poppy doesn't mind.

Go for it. You obviously keep far better files than I do; I don't think I could lay hands on this if you offered me a pony.

greygirlbeast May 6 2009, 18:14:48 UTC

Go for it.

Danke.

You obviously keep far better files than I do; I don't think I could lay hands on this if you offered me a pony.

I get rid of nothing. Ever. It's crazy.

blakesrealm May 7 2009, 20:54:45 UTC

Would it matter if said pony was actually undead and only fed on the souls of two-legged meatbags?

martianmooncrab May 6 2009, 18:30:23 UTC

One doesnt want to appear as an encroaching toad eating lackey and overstepping the bounds of propriety by overly commenting on each posting.

..or pushy, or stalkerishy, or any of the bad manners.

greygirlbeast May 6 2009, 18:34:05 UTC

One doesnt want to appear as an encroaching toad eating lackey and overstepping the bounds of propriety by overly commenting on each posting.

..or pushy, or stalkerishy, or any of the bad manners.

Well, I don't mean to imply that people should comment when they have nothing to say. I'm merely noting that, over the last couple of years, there has been a general drop-off in the overall number of comments, indicating a change in behaviour (though of what sort, or why, I can't say).

And, again, I really wouldn't allow comments if I weren't interested in seeing them.

martianmooncrab May 6 2009, 18:47:50 UTC

After reading someones journal/blog, there is a sense of familiarity, and you dont need to respond each time there is a posting.

I enjoy your trips to the beach and the paleocommentary, (I have an interest in sauropods and their kin) and I dont want to appear totally ignorant if I post.

Comments fwcleve May 6 2009, 18:41:00 UTC

Hi, Cait ( ... )

Re: Comments greygirlbeast May 6 2009, 18:56:13 UTC

Good to see you.

I have to say that I miss the good ol' CRK Usenet Group.

Truly, I don't. The death of the Usenet group was long overdue. I simply could not abide the fact of trolls, or the fact that there was, ultimately, no way to combat trolling.

(I even managed to meet you and get you to sign my copy at a little book shop in L.A., once upon a time.)

Gods, I don't recall the name of that shop, but it was in late Oct. '98, or very early November, and I read from Silk. I clearly remember meeting you.

Wish you'd still do a comics mini-series, now and again.

Sometimes I miss doing comics. Mostly, I don't.

sovay May 6 2009, 19:08:34 UTC

Sometimes I miss doing comics.

You and Vince could do something short for Sirenia?

greygirlbeast May 6 2009, 19:10:26 UTC

You and Vince could do something short for Sirenia?

I've thought about this recently, actually. It's mostly an issue of time on his end. I can produce a script fairly quickly, but then he has to draw and ink it, and that would require more of his time, probably, than I could afford. I'd love to do a story over several issues, two or three pages per. I just don't know if it's feasible.

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