dqg_neal's local writing group is doing a short story contest. The final round of Critiques will be done by Ellen Datlow and Hildy Silverman.

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...and boy are my arms tired.

No, really actually. There are a lot of uncorrected proofs, which require manual entry. Anyway, with this batch scanned I'm up to 1429 books, and shogunhb has 690. 696. I found a cache of unscanned uncorrected proofs, a gift from dark_towheadBibliophiles...who us ( Read more... )

First: I won!


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So Clark has SPOC, their version of the SFS. I've approached them to ( Read more... )

Direct from the source, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, writer and creator of Middleman:

my friends, i couldn't be more delighted to be finally letting the cat out of the bag...the middleman dvd is now officially in production for a summer 2009 release ( Read more... )

Gothic Computer is love

Thanks to knottytree for the link.

Now excuse me, I must continue lusting after this...

EDIT: Ahem, the link is now fixed. Sorry 'bout that.

I'm using lyrics from "Sympathy for the Devil" as chapter titles for my MA thesis.

TABLE OF CONTENTS*

Introduction:
The Nature of His Game

Chapter One:
Sympathy for the Devil: A Look at the Origins of Vice

Chapter Two:
And I Laid Traps for Troubadours: Creating the Monster Within the Man in Early Modern Drama

Chapter Three:
And All the ( Read more... )

So Cool.

Thanks to joe_sunday for the link.

I went ot my friend Steve's oral defense this afternoon. I'm so glad I did--it very much cut down on my anxiety. It was Ginger, Sun Hee, and Jay (all professors) and they basically carried on a discussion with Steve about his thesis. There were even snacks! It wasn't a rapid-fire interrogation, just a relaxed conversation between peers. Okay, Steve ( Read more... )

I'm getting a kitten!!!!!