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C.J. Parker (fuguemacabre) is a friend of mine and a Louisiana author. Yesterday marked the release of book two in Charlotte's wonderful paranormal mystery series. I enjoyed her first book Fugue Macabre: Ghost Dance and can't wait to read Bone Dance, but before diving in I thought I'd take a second to tell everyone about Charlotte's series. Check it out at Amazon.com or at her publisher Sapphire Blue Publishing. Charlotte is also responsible for bringing the 2010 EPIC Con to New Orleans. http://www.epic-conference.com/

I'm watching Season Two of Psych. I love Shawn Spencer's weird obsession with hair.

Ponyo was utterly delightful. I don't think there is a better word. It was pretty and it made me laugh. True laughter. Not snide giggles or snickers. It was loosely based, as someone mention to me before going in, on The Little Mermaid. I was leery as that story ends bad. But not Ponyo. I keep coming back to delightful. My friend and I were the only people in the show, yet the rest of the theater was PACKED. That made me said. Reminder: If you like seeing Studio Ghibli films close to home -- you must pay to see them in a theater. The other part of me was glad we had the places to ourselves, because we could be unrestrained in our laughter and excitement. We clapped and cheered.



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From Goddester via annlarimer : Post a sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick.) No context, no explanations.


So here are my WIPs:

1) “Excuse me Ms. Witing, but there is quite a crowd in the lobby,” an assistance said popping in to the room.

2) Egan followed her into the bathroom and watched her as she inspected the cut on her forhead.

3) It was hard to let that smile go, even though it wasn’t for me, but I wanted to see his clothes.

4) An hour later, the two maids through alternating tales had managed to recap four years and cook a delicious meal to feed their guest.

5)“Yeah well knowing in theory isn’t the same thing as living with it.”

This was fun. I haven't opened some of these files in way too long.
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I have a very long list of blogs in my Newz Crawler and more and more I find myself just glossing over the information. So in attempt to find new and different things, I've deleted the lot of them (that's a lie -- I kept the handful of people I know personally). Today is either the beginning of more free time or more random web surfing.

Lord Byron again...  http://videos.promaxbda.org/video/bbc_poetry-desktop.mov

I received a book of Hart Crane's work in the mail yesterday.  I know it was on my wishlist, I just can no longer remember why. See I follow links... all sorts of links, and then a book catches my eye. It goes on to the wishlist (which is 500+ books long), then I forget why its there, waiting for it to show up.

So without further explanation, I give you Hart Crane (well a stanza anyway):

In Shadow 

Out in the late amber afternoon,
Confused among chrysanthemums,
Her parasol, a pale balloon,
Like a waiting moon, in shadow swims.

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"She walks in beauty, like the night" Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
Or softly lightens o'er her face,
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek and o'er that brow
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,—
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.

How much are we all diminished by such a loss?

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25656197-3102,00.html

We went to see Star Trek today and I don't think I've laughed so hard in a while. I really enjoyed it. I have seen so many movie lately that the best I can say about them is that they are pretty. Pretty isn't necessarily entertaining. I was entertained by Star Trek. Even the bits I found over the top or cliche, I was entertained by. I want to know how may re-runs the dude playing Bones watched, for his impersonation. Scotty steals his scenes. I think I loved Chekov the best. I love his gitty panicked excitement as he releasing he can beam people aboard. I love his expression when he's given the con, again. I love when he tells Bones how old he is. Chekov, never one of my particular favs, just jumped to the head of the list.

I just opened an ETSY shop: MadMadamsMasks.etsy.com

Now I've just got to stock the shelves.

I might have said this before, but I love actors who can make great facial expressions. Oh and did we really need the depressing turn of events. Ugh.

DiNozzo:I thought they couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Kate: That's because the King only had horses and men.

and with 15mins of the day left to go, I'll add a few lines from Bryan D. Dietrich's poem "B Movie"

...Too bad real life doesn't come
with danger music. We all have to live
with what silence we let survive between
our walls...