hi all! just wanted to let ya'll know that, despite fog and crazy cabdrivers and wacky no-room-at-the-inn hijinks (sadly appropriate for the season!) fay and I have both arrived safely from our various locales to london.
(eragorn was very, *very* amusing, and sushi saves sanity.)
merry chrismakwanzikkuh!
Need a favor. If anyone has a copy of the Wallace and Grommit movie, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, I need a descripation or screencap of a single frame/scene. If you can help me, drop me a line at cabil@aol.com
Greg (my husband in case I haven't burbled about him enough) has built a horror reference website at [link]
Greg is a member of his library's Readers Advisory Team and is known as The Undead Rat because of his interest in horror. The website contains lists of horror novels, graphic novels, non-fiction writing on horror, etc.--a place to find that book by that author you can't quite remember, or to find other books by that author you like, or to find more ghost stories or vampire novels or award winners--whatever your horror interest. There are about 135 pages of horror available, so it shouldn't be too hard to find something. (He also asked me to mention that he's considering this the beta version. There may be a link or two that doesn't work yet, and probably a spelling error here or there.)
January 17th, at the month anniversary of his passing, we will be having a virtual wake for Gus.
Donations will be taken for a gift in his name to Oxfam (or other charity to be determined).
Paypal me if you'd like to contribute. Watch here for futher details. Please spread the word to Buffistas we do not see much anymore.
In an effort to get my house in order, I'm in the midst of a big purge. So these are going away late in the week, but if something catches your fancy let me know and I'll mail it to you.
Books that are going away, take one. A second list will be posted later today. (* are young adult or kids books)
Henry IV, Part I (Folger edition)
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Norton collection with essays
Chaucer, Viking Portable
Henry IV, Part I (penguin edition)
Romance of the Rose
Bleak House, Charles Dickens (Norton Critical edition)
Confessions of a Pagan Nun, Kate Horsley
Before You Know Kindness, Chris Bohjalian
Anybody Out There?, Marian Keyes
Size 12 Is Not Fat, Meg Cabot
Zorro, Isabel Allende
Jennifer Government, Max Barry
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
Women and Children First, Granta
London, Granta
Losers, Granta
Bedroom Astronomy, Klutz book
In Code, A Mathematical Journey, Sarah Flannery
Marco Polo, The Travels (Penguin Edition)
The Romance Reader, Pearl Abraham
Listening to Crickets, Candice Ransom *
Bliss, Gabrielle Pina
Yukon Alone, John Balzar
Scribbler of Dreams, Mary Pearson*
Almost French, Sarah Turnbull
McSweeneys, No. 13 (the comics one)
Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease, An American Museum of Natural History book
Whoredom in Kimmage, Rosemary Mahoney
The Poetry of Maya Angelou
City Life, Witold Rybczynski
3 journals, 1 beaded on pink silk, 1 pink silk with silk flowers and 1 tan, handmade paper with an elephant motif.
Also, the Observation Deck, which is "Tool kit for writers"
Either ping me by email or AIM or post in natter.
So, yeah. That random jobma I think I requested panned out, and I forgot to mention it here, because I'm spiffy keen like that, but anyhow, I have a job, and it has started, and today was day one of Kool Aide consumption, and I'll be dim until settled (however long THAT takes)! Wish me luck on the dark side of the force.
Job~ma requested. Just mailed off an application for a great job that gets me out of here, the minimum is more than I make now, and gets me back into the legal arena.