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There's something horribly sad about my spam for the last year, which makes me wonder if there's something to be said for society being reflected in their spam. Since the economy did its thing last year, my spam is almost exclusively refinancing and stock spam, with a sprinkling of non-sex related self-improvement (white teeth! better bod! new career! Something else!). However, recently, finally, someone asked if I wanted a bigger penis FOUR INCHES IN FOUR DAYS, and that put me in a better mood. Our economy is recovering--we can afford bigger penises. The amount of IMPROVE YOUR SEX LIFE is also going up, which makes me happy, though admittedly I kind of hope for a hybridized PENIS WILL GROW FOUR INCHES WITH OUR REFINANCING DEAL, and it might even be true if you're in foreclosure. Libidos work better with lower stress.

Gmail and yahoo are exclusive victims of Pfizer drugs, however; for the life of me, I cannot figure that one out. I mean, they're not like, cool drugs or anything. LOWER YOUR CHOLESTEROL WITH DRUGS FROM MEXICO/CANADA/COUNTRY I DID NOT KNOW EXISTED, which really, that is not tempting me to click here. Something that said CREATES TIMESPACE RIP TO GET EVERYTHING DONE EVERY DAY, now that shit I am on. WILL MAKE YOUR BOSS LESS IRRITATING or WILL EXPLAIN HOW TO ACTIVATE VIERA LINK ON TV IN SMALL WORDS, those are some drugs I could get behind. WILL IMPROVE YOUR ABILITY TO DO MATH, get me some of that. FIXES YOUR GODDAMN PERL SCRIPT ERROR. Hell yes. WILL HELP FINISH YULETIDE STORY GUARANTEED WITHOUT SPELLING ERRORS--I have friends who would be all over that. WILL NEVER NEED SPELLCHECK AGAIN fuck yes, please, send me that one, from Mexico or Mars, I am there.

As society continues not to deal with these very pressing issues, no, I am not buying your drugs from Mexico, thanks.

I haven't recced in a while, but I want to toss this one out: And Play a Favorite Song by linzeestyle, AIRPS, Adam/Kris. Linzee's style is usually faintly melancholy (to me), which isn't at all a bad thing, but this one surprised me with a richly detailed, complicated emotional landscape that tipped over toward hope and the wonder of falling in love in all the ways it can be terrifying and amazing both, realistic and carefully optimistic. Even if AI isn't your thing, in the end, it's two people who in love, uncertain, terrified, and in the end, joyful.

I don't walk out of many stories feeling this good, but this has been a multiple re-read that never fails to make me happier than I was when I started.

Now must go and check on children, as Child and Niece are tying each other to the exercise bike in a series of ever more complicated poses that make me wonder if they have bones. Niece is a stick and Child is--well, not a stick at all, to put it bluntly. And yet.

Did I seriously just see a Volvo commercial using Twilight clips?

I did. WhatDrivesEdward.com.

Good God. And there were New Moon Halloween chocolates in the discount bin at the supermarket.

...There were also Harry Potter action figures, and the old Lestat-on-Broadway website had the same cheesy music, so I guess my fandoms aren't ones to talk.

Last month, it was National Coming Out Day. Then, somebody at asexuality made a post that started with "I've been reading on posts and found that most people aren't 'out' to their friends and families and are really worried about it or keeping it as a secret." The poster didn't mean it as a You Have To Come Out comment -- ze later says ze's out to 'everybody who cares to ask', which to me means only people who've taken the time to ask and whose relationship with hir somewhat leads to them wondering about hir sexual orientation.

Nonetheless, I couldn't help but react as if somebody were accusing me of hiding who I am (other people has explained this feeling better that I ever could). Which is why I answered, and I'm going to quote myself here, "I'm waiting for the day my heterosexual fellow human beings 'out' themselves as heterosexuals. Then I'll think about 'outing' myself as asexual."

In the same vein, I'd like to share with any heterosexual (and everybody else too, of course!) reading this a little questionnaire from the safezone. It specifically addresses only gays and lesbians in certain questions, but I like to think it can include all of us not of the hetero mode :).

Also, the first question is actually a very sensitive subject for asexuals, as people seem to think SOMETHING had had to happen for us to be 'that way' (AKA, 'scared of sex'). Of course, you know all what SOMETHING stands for. And no. SOMETHING didn't happen to me. And I'm not 'scared of sex', I'm simply not interested.

What do you think caused your heterosexuality?

When and how did you decide that you were a heterosexual?

Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase that you may grow out of?

Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?

If you have never slept with a person of the same sex, is it possible that all you need is a good gay lover?

Do your parents know that you are straight? Do your friends and roommates know?

Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can't you just be who you are and keep it quiet?

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I know life is not fair, but recently I’ve been thinking about one grave injustice: Nina Revoyr is not famous.

Most people I’ve met have never even heard of Nina Revoyr, much less read one of her novels. They’ve never had the pleasure of sinking under the spell of her deceptively simple prose, or falling in love with her palpably real characters. That’s their loss, but it’s also part of a greater injustice, because Nina Revoyr tells the stories that aren’t often enough heard.

She writes incisively about relationships between working-class Japanese-American and African-American communities, and about lesbians whose relationship struggles have moved far past coming-out dramas; she creates fully-realized characters and worlds in which white people have only bit parts; she makes the effects of racism so real that the reader recoils; she treats the black urban community of  LA with a deeper respect than I have found in any other author.

Why isn’t she famous? Oh, wait….

My apologies for the short newsletter. I was whisked off to the emergency room this morning before I could ask one of the other mods to swap with me. Anything not in today's newsletter will be picked up in tomorrow's. ETA: I didn't mean to worry anyone with the note - the flu took a nasty detour to bronchitis on its way to pneumonia. I'm back home and I'll live.


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Hello Dead Bro Walkin' fam,

A bit of context - about a year ago I moved from Montreal to Haiti (where I'm from) with my partner (Franco-Canadian) and 3 kids (who are now 8, 6 and 20mo). My eldest is a brilliant, sensitive boy who has a solid Midas touch but his visual artwork is especially moving.

I'd love to get him into really good comics and won't necessarily say no to super hero but he gets so much of that stuff from TV I'd like to steer him into something diff. And, of course, protags of colour are highly sought after (though not a dealbreaker, either). It would have to be stuff that's easy to find online, too.

Any suggestions?

Title: Memento Mori (Seize the New Day)
Author: neevebrody
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Rating: NC-17-Adult
Warnings: Adult Situations, Language, Futuristic Earthside AU
Word Count: 21,400
Legal: None of these characters belong to me.
Author's Notes: The story is a homage to the old-school sci-fi of the '50s and '60s, and is very loosely based on one of my favorite stories, "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury.
Summary: The banging at his door woke him immediately. He threw off the covers as he became more aware and stumbled out of the bed, heart racing and chest aflame at the sudden intrusion of his sleep. Just as he reached the bedroom door, he heard a crash and heavy footsteps coming toward the hallway. Jesus, surely they hadn't started home invasions again. A flash of fear joined the emotional soup - he had all his work laid out on his desk, the file readers, and what if someone had found out about…

This was written for the 2009 McShep Match

I finished four mini-DVD Commentaries for the recent meme.

"Not Near Enough" for hannahrorlove

The beginning of "Comes a Day" for hibernia1

The epilogue to "Arureos: Greek for Rat" for chocolate_frapp

The end of "Green" for hwshipper

1. Smooth move, Joel McHale, with the random shirtless shot (+ furry belly shot) in Community! Now this show has everything I need.

2. Jamie Oliver has got to stop calling Ryan Seacrest a top; it's completely defamatory.

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So Janelle Monae was on sgu last night?

( General intro, about LGBT fiction, YA lit, race, and the few other books about African-American queer girls )

In this context, it’s a real pleasure to discover a third novel about a queer African-American girl, especially one as moving and skillfully written as Tonya Cherie Hegamin’s M+O4EVR. 

( Click for review. Spoilers through the end of chapter 2 of a 10-chapter YA book. )

Title: Oops
Genre: Gen
Characters: Sheppard, McKay, Weir
Warnings: None
Word Count: 511
Rating: PG
Summary: Rodney and John find a new game.
Author's Note: Just a little silliness that wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote it. My muse is weird.

But all she wants to do is dance!

Right over here.

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Sunny and warming up (65 degrees right now). Feeling a lot better (I took a Vicodin last night) but still not 100%.

Watched American Gangster last night -- Denzel Washington is such an awesome actor, and we kept spotting supporting actors and saying "Hey! That's -- " There was Armand Assante, and Cuba Gooding, Jr., and the guy who plays the police lieutenant on Monk ... hee.

More later ...

Props to my girl, kaz_mahoney for posting this.

This video is dedicated to all of my fellow NaNoWriMo peeps. How is everyone faring?

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It's weird ... back when I was an undergrad, I used to have problems with insomnia and a really weird sleep schedule, and now that I'm taking classes again, I keep having these intermittent bouts of insomnia a few times a week. Not nearly as bad as before, when I wouldn't sleep for two or three days at a time, but just waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep for hours, if at all.

It's not so much stress as just not being able to stop thinking about what I need to do. I'm a planner and I don't like to have unfinished responsibilities hanging over my head. Classwork is a never-ending series of unfinished responsibilities, and I find myself going around and around in my head on what I still need to do, and not being able to let it go enough to sleep.

Since I'm up anyway, I may as well post on TV. I haven't been watching a whole lot of TV, but it's nice to have a few hours a week when I can make my brain shut up.

( NCIS through 7x06 )

( Supernatural through 5x08 )

( Scrubs through the end of season 3 )

( White Collar 1x01 )