Late shift, anyone?

02:39 / 08.07.08

Gosh, I'm so glad I don't watch network TV.

02:45 / 08.07.08

Apparently, smug bullies sell product. Especially if they're smarmy about it and someone else can look like a weak, ineffective idiot by comparison.

I'll never be a Nielson family. Le sigh.

02:59 / 08.07.08

Does it really sell? Or has the advertising industry grown so lazy that it just assumes that bullying sells, without examining the validity of that assumption?

I keep thinking about the astounding number of people I know who refuse to eat Progresso Soup because of their snobbish "You're a grown-up now!" ad campaign.

03:02 / 08.07.08

You're probably onto something. I know more people turned away from products because of condescending ads than because of them. Though, the because of them crowd tend to be wealthy and possibly buy more for higher prices.

03:15 / 08.07.08

I don't understand buying an expensive something just because it's more expensive. Mind you, sometimes quality items are pricier, but it's no guarantee.

I'll usually try the cheap thing first, and only upgrade if it falls apart. Anytime I fail to follow that formula, I later find out that I ended up spending more money than I needed to.

Which really bums me out.

03:20 / 08.07.08

I usually just buy the cheap thing again and again. Or do without.

I quit canned corned beef hash because it got up to five bucks plus. Cheapest stuff in the world, suddenly it's not, so it's out of the cart. Probably healthier for that, really.

03:23 / 08.07.08

Corned beef hash just sounds gross. The picture on the can looks even grosser.

03:26 / 08.07.08

I usually just buy the cheap thing again and again.

Though sometimes buying a cheap thing over again can cost more than getting the more expensive thing that lasts forever.

Or do without.

That works too.

03:33 / 08.07.08

Though sometimes buying a cheap thing over again can cost more than getting the more expensive thing that lasts forever.

Truth. But it's the princi... no, I'm just trained a certain way and haven't been able to break the training.

04:16 / 08.07.08

I spent about three hours writing tonight, but the only useful result was a line of dialogue. Disgusting.

On the other hand, I'm reading about four books right now.

04:16 / 08.07.08

Man, I just got sucked into reading pages and pages of an online discussion between Dave Sim and various members of Sequential Tart.

And now BBC radio is on.

I think it might be time for bed.

Good night, Deca!

04:17 / 08.07.08

On the other hand, I'm reading about four books right now.

At the same time? How many hands do you have?

How many EYES do you have?

04:21 / 08.07.08

Just when I thought I was out, they PULL me back in.

To bed. Now.

Good night, Papers!

04:24 / 08.07.08

Good night, Liger. Dream of forgotten things, and remember backwards. Or forwards, whichever is the wrong way.

I'm all eyes and hands, Decadent, which lends a certain leering quality to my presence. I take everything in, and once I've looked, I want to caress. To hold, just so. Just so.

I also downloaded a schwack of Paul Pope comics, and am immersed in his re-draw of Kirby's OMAC first issue and his ruminations on why Robin functions in the Batman mythos.

01:57 / 09.07.08

Anybody doing anything more interesting than me - that still leaves you here to shift?

02:30 / 09.07.08

Watching the Seeker and recovering from a lot of sunlight today. How are you, Daytripper?

02:37 / 09.07.08

I have lost literally thousands of dollars in contracts over the past two weeks, so, y'know, I could be better.

I am, however, eating gigantic portions of stirfry, watching the goofy action movie I intended to watch last night, and I am wearing two unconscious dogs and a very tired cat while I type, so I could be doing loads worse, too.

02:38 / 09.07.08

Also, I appear to have the Mystery Date jingle in my head on repeat.

02:40 / 09.07.08

I'm sorry to hear that, Dec. Any shining things on the horizon to replace them?

I'm not sure how I feel about the movie, though I love the Seven Soldiers-ness of the Old Ones-- and there are some lovely effects, as well.

Did you like the sex doll story, by the by?

02:42 / 09.07.08

I really did. And hopefully I'll have very good news for you on that front, before too long. It's very distinctive, but nicely comfortable, too.

And, yeah, I'm waiting on something very juicy to occupy my time, soon, so fingers crossed and everything.

02:53 / 09.07.08

All will be birthed in the fullness of time, I suppose. I finally started work on a fresh story today but it's already stalling out -- though I might try to fire up a different scene and see if that does any good.

03:00 / 09.07.08

Good luck with it.

I had to temporarily put a new piece away because the events started to dovetail uncomfortably with reality and I don't even want to approach the territory where you're just scening what you'd like to happen in a day or two. If it doesn't work, I'd be disappointed and trying to steer life the direction of fiction, and if it does start to work, I'd feel like a manipulative ass. So, filed away for the time being.

I'm reading tons of great prospective work at the moment, though. Makes life a little bit more worthwhile.

03:05 / 09.07.08

I picked up some Wodehouse today, which should be delightful.

03:07 / 09.07.08

Nice. The one thing that makes up for there being no new Wodehouse, is that what there is in print is always immensely rereadable. What'd you score?

03:10 / 09.07.08

Carry On, Jeeves. I -think- it may be the first one. I could be wrong, though.

03:18 / 09.07.08

I get the order all mixed up, but I don't think they were published in the order of their internal chronology, anyway.

If you haven't checked out Tiny Titans, btw, you may want to Byrne steal the next time you're in a shop. The only fault I can find so far is that there are only a small handful of issues released.

03:23 / 09.07.08

Will do.

Okay, so THE SEEKER just boiled down to, "Dad! Your thesis totally killed my brother!" & Oh Noes the PhD is teh eval.

03:25 / 09.07.08

Oh Noes the PhD is teh eval

Right, then. I always suspected PhD stood for Phor Darkseid.

03:33 / 09.07.08

For totals. Though, I have to say, it fails to be as good as Madeleine L'Engle's stuff, which managed to balance science and magic and faith and reason so perfectly.

03:38 / 09.07.08

Also--sigh--girls are the callous & vain & evil. It's all Eve's fault, really. Another reason I prefer L'Engle.

03:44 / 09.07.08

Lilith's, for my money. You know she just had to talk to Eve about Adam. And that's where it all went bad for our manly-forlocked forefather.

Unfortunately, you can turn stories out on that lathe forever and a day and make cash hand over first. And knowledge leads to teh evil usually works, too.

It's knowledge that makes you question these things, really. Evil knowledge and evil thoughts.

03:52 / 09.07.08

It's all rather tragic, yes. One day, though. One day.

03:57 / 09.07.08

Now, now. That's the PC intellectual talking. Don't be controlled.

OMG, it's hot and wet here. Why does the weather hate me like this? I asked it to rain chocolate bars and jelly beans gently, at moderate temperatures. But, no. Hot and humid.

04:26 / 09.07.08

Be careful, or it's heat and molten chocolate.