One more because-it's-still-vacation-and-I-can link:

The Word Banishment Committee of Lake Superior State University has a message for the technically savvy this year - put down your app and chillax on the tweets, people.

This is not, strictly speaking, news. As can be seen from the comments. People have been irked with the current vocabulary since ( Read more... )

Suite101.com declined my deathless prose. I am not as surprised by this as I would have been had they not posted their '10 Golden Rules of Internet Writing' on the confirmation page for the application -- evidently their idea of a little gag. Ten seconds past confirming that sucker, and I knew I was screwed. Turns out those little dry sticks of ( Read more... )

So Facebook continues to expand my horizons in new and odd ways, and I'm looking at this application for Suite101.com.

It's evidently one of those online zines where they collect lots of random people to write articles on subjects they know stuff about, so the whole thing's got a kind of charming Family Circle-meets-Wikipedia vibe. You fill out ( Read more... )

Witness services involve frequent question-and-answer discussions. Since my ability to sit quietly and listen is on a par with an ADD toddler just post-Froot Loops, I tend to participate in these discussions a lot. Using much the same style as I do in print, in fact [insert 'Not now Shoe, there's a time limit' gag here].

So after services tonight, a ( Read more... )

...the PopMatters one on the film Holiday, that is.

Yeah, I know, it's been awhile. Here I was patiently waiting to be notified the article was up, like last time, and turns out it's been on the go all along. Maybe that's a service only provided to novice authors, or ones who bug their editors to distraction (if there's a difference!), I don't know.

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The story I posted last week, it continues. Usual caveats about first time I've done this, rough draft, please be nice, yadda-yadda-any more whining I haven't thought of yet-cakes.

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( In which there is much discussion of comic books, for some reason... )

People think it must be pretty cool, to have a perfect memory. Total recall. Impress your friends, win big on the vid-quizzes, look suave at parties.

Yeah.

Until it sinks in that total means everything. Every single thing you’ve ever experienced. Every decision you ever make - and here on the Pirate Moon in 2258, there are a whole lot of ( Read more... )

...oh, lord, I don't know why I'm reacting to this in lolcat. But it's true: I heard back from my PopMatters editor this evening, and he's more than delighted to accept my Holiday piece. He was so delighted, in fact, that I'm blushing a little as I, er, carefully store the email away for rereading. On a regular basis.

Honestly, this is just the most ( Read more... )

...I've caught up on all ten chapters of Ursula Vernon's Digger. Really, I need to stop discovering wonderful webcomics that've been running for years; compulsive archive-reading does not mesh well with the amount of sleep required for coping with fashion vendors. Especially the ones who change their retails on 1500+ units, and - whoopsie! - ( Read more... )

OK, I'm officially on an upswing this week. Found a pair of slinky jeans that fit perfectly and everything. Down two sizes from last year's purchase, too. Turning thirty-eight? Hah! I laugh at turning thirty-eight!

Well, alright, I don't really. But the jeans definitely helped. So did the cute sneakers - do they still call them sneakers? I just ( Read more... )