D'oh! Link deleted due to last minute changes.

I don't think I've seen this around here, but my apologies if it's been everywhere and I missed it. If you had a paid LJ account at the time of last week's outages, you can get a week of free paid time: [link]

Sorry, I was asked before to hold this until some last minute changes could be implemented, but the trigger has been pulled elsewhere.

High Hat #7, ready for the public.

This issue, the Potlatch section is an assessment of Robert Altman, good and bad. There's also articles on pop culture artifacts as widely-flung as:

• In music: Schoenberg, Bonnarude, and death metal
• In literature & art: comics continuity, drunken novels, Charles Schulz, Prayer, and Pryor
• In movies: Artificial Intelligence and monkeys; and
• In TV: Deadwood and The Wire.

Apparently the ads for the day-after-Thanksgiving sales for many retailers are already leaked and online.

[link]

I thought I would share one such site.

Calling all sooper sekrit folks!

A couple of people who don't know their giftees very well have said to me they're having trouble coming up with ideas because the giftees haven't filled out a Buffista Database with Deena/don't update lj often/etc. Consider this a nudge to maybe drop some hints in Natter; or if you haven't filled out Deena's quiz, now would be a great time to do so.

I've been group blogging a great deal lately:

In Gristmill:

The Myth of Energy Independence [link] 27/Oct/2006

Carbon Trading Problems [link] 12/Nov/2006

CyberTran: How to break the chicken/egg deadlock [link] 15/Nov/2006

Transforming the automobile [link] 16/Nov/2006

I also posted on healthcare over at MaxSpeak SINGLE PAYER HEALTH - THE BASICS [link] 1/Nov/2006

And, to make it easier, just e-mail serasempre AT gmail.com with the following:

Buffista name:
Real name:

Top 10 under 10 pick-me-up list (In case you need a smile, what would make you happiest? Postcards; a new pen, refrigerator magnets, a keychain?...)

Name(s) of significant other(s), if applicable:
Name(s) and ages of child(ren), if applicable:
Pet name(s) and type, if applicable:
Name of roommate(s), if applicable:

Holiday system and favorite holiday:

Allergies or sensitivities:

Favorite kind of chocolate or other sweet treat:
Favorite alcoholic beverage:
Favorite non-alcoholic beverage:
Tea or coffee and favorite flavor/kind:
Favorite fruit:
Favorite food:

Favorite scent(s) or scent family:
Favorite flower or plant:
Favorite color:
bath or shower:

Favorite animal:
totem animal(s):

Passion or collection (music, leather, utilikilts, wonder woman?):
Favorite comic book, cartoon or similar character:
Favorite author:
Favorite artist:
Favorite music:

Favorite metal:
Favorite stone (river rock, fire opal, diamond):
Piercing(s):

Mac or PC:
Favorite website(s) (after buffistas.org):
Wish-list URL:

Something every Buffista should know about me:

1. Don't answer any you don't want to, and/or add more if I left something important out.
2. Also, if you haven't filled one of these out in a couple of years, you might consider updating your old one.

A new lesson is up at Gothic Charm School!

On Dealing With Relatives. And Security Guards.

The owner of the group blog I post on, Max Sawicky has posted his annual Thanksgiving satire. I still think it is the funniest historically accurate Thanksgiving column ever written: [link] - even surpassing the Art Buchwald classic: [link]

Slacker Secret Santa: All of you who want to exchange presents with other Buffistas but haven't mailed Dani about it yet, this is your chance!

Please send your info (board name and snail-mail address) to my profile address until the 10th of December. By then, I'll match you up to pairs of givers and recipients, and let you know which is who.

Your truly,
Tiny Jewish not-Santa