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    Sunday, November 15th, 2009
    johno
         		6:02p
    mysteryal
         		9:40p
    The lucent moon, the luminous sky...
     Joseph d’Arimathie, Nāgārjuna, Vajrayāna, adi shankara, akhenaten, albius tibullus, alexander kaidanovsky, amaterasu, amitabha, ancient india, andrei arsenyevich tarkovsky, andrei rublev, antiquity, aristotele, aristotelianism, ashoka the great, aurelius augustinus, avalokitesvara, basho matsuo, bodhisattva, buddha dhamma, buddhism, calderon, calderon de la barca henao de la barreda, calligraphy, charles baudelaire, charles john huffam dickens, china, chretien de troyes, chris spheeris, christian kabbalah, christian kabbalists, christian mystics, christianity, christmas, classic, constance demby, copernicus, dandelion wine, daniel andreev, dante, dead poets society, descartes renatus cartesius, dharma, divine comedy, don quixote, dramatics, du fu, eduard nikolayevitch artemyev, edwin arnold, engraving, erckmann chatrian, ethics, european occultism, faust, ferdowsi, fine arts, florence, francesco petrarca, francis, friedrich schiller, fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, gaius valerius catullus, galilei, gathas, george macdonald, gilbert keith chesterton, giovanni pico della mirandola, godly, grail, grand st. graal, gunnr, gur, gurun, haiku, hauptmann, heaven, hegel, henrik ibsen, hermetic qabalah, hermeticism, hinduism, hokku, hugo, ikebana, indian summer, inklings, jacques prevert, james, japan, joan of arc, johann friedrich overbeck, johann sebastian bach, johann wolfgang von goethe, john keats, john milton, john the apostle, joseph of arimathie, kabbalah, kabuki, kalidasa, kamal, kanashi, kant immanuel, karunesh, kim ki-duk, kopernik, kriemhild, kriemhilt, lady ise, laozi, legends, leonardo da vinci, lewis, li bai, lincoln, liszt, logos, lotus sutra, luca, ludwig van beethoven, mahavira, mahayana, maimonides, mallarme, mars lasar, mercy, metaphysica, metaphysics, mevlana celaleddin mehmed rumi, michelangelo di lodovico buonarroti simo, miguel de cervantes saavedra, mikhail yuryevich lermontov, milarepa, mono no aware, music, mystery, mystic, nagarjuna, neoplatonism, netsuke, new age, newton isaac, nikita mikhalkov, nirvana, nizami, novalis georg philipp friedrich von hard, origami, osho, oswald spengler, padmasambhava, pema jungne, percy bysshe shelley, peter weir, pitagora, plato, platonism, poem, poetry, publius ovidius naso, publius vergilius maro, quintus horatius flaccus, rabindranath tagore, rachmaninoff, ramanuja, ramayana, raphael raffaello santi sanzio, ray douglas bradbury, religion, rembrandt harmenz van rijn, richard wagner, rimsky-korsakov, robert southey, robin mclaurim williams, roger joseph zelazny, rolland, rose of the world, run, ryuichi sakamoto, saadi, sabi, sacred, sadhu, saigyo, saint, samuel taylor coleridge, sanctuary, schiller johann christoph friedrich, schopenhauer arthur, sefer yetzirah, sei shonagon, shakespeare william, shinto, siddhartha gautama buddha, skill, solaris, spirituality, sri aurobindo, stalker, swedenborg emanuel, tanka, tao te ching, taoism, tchaikovsky, the book of daniel, the holy grail, the holy spirit, theravada, theravāda, tibet, tolstoy, tragedy, tulsi das ramcharit-manasa, vajrayana, valmiki, vedanta, verhaeren, waka, watercolour, william james sidis, william shakespeare, wolfgang amadeus mozart johannes chrysos, wolfram von eschenbach Der jüngere Titur, woodcut, yamato, yoga, zen, zend avesta, zohar, zoroaster

    a home aglow with lights
    of glowing embers,
    the lambent tongues of flame.

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    «...Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground...»

    THE SACRED BIBLE
    Saturday, November 14th, 2009
    johno
         		6:02p
    mysteryal
         		12:31p
    Sermon on the mount...
     Joseph d’Arimathie, Nāgārjuna, Vajrayāna, adi shankara, akhenaten, albius tibullus, alexander kaidanovsky, amaterasu, amitabha, ancient india, andrei arsenyevich tarkovsky, andrei rublev, antiquity, aristotele, aristotelianism, ashoka the great, aurelius augustinus, avalokitesvara, basho matsuo, bodhisattva, buddha dhamma, buddhism, calderon, calderon de la barca henao de la barreda, calligraphy, charles baudelaire, charles john huffam dickens, china, chretien de troyes, chris spheeris, christian kabbalah, christian kabbalists, christian mystics, christianity, christmas, classic, constance demby, copernicus, dandelion wine, daniel andreev, dante, dead poets society, descartes renatus cartesius, dharma, divine comedy, don quixote, dramatics, du fu, eduard nikolayevitch artemyev, edwin arnold, engraving, erckmann chatrian, ethics, european occultism, faust, ferdowsi, fine arts, florence, francesco petrarca, francis, friedrich schiller, fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, gaius valerius catullus, galilei, gathas, george macdonald, gilbert keith chesterton, giovanni pico della mirandola, godly, grail, grand st. graal, gunnr, gur, gurun, haiku, hauptmann, heaven, hegel, henrik ibsen, hermetic qabalah, hermeticism, hinduism, hokku, hugo, ikebana, indian summer, inklings, jacques prevert, james, japan, joan of arc, johann friedrich overbeck, johann sebastian bach, johann wolfgang von goethe, john keats, john milton, john the apostle, joseph of arimathie, kabbalah, kabuki, kalidasa, kamal, kanashi, kant immanuel, karunesh, kim ki-duk, kopernik, kriemhild, kriemhilt, lady ise, laozi, legends, leonardo da vinci, lewis, li bai, lincoln, liszt, logos, lotus sutra, luca, ludwig van beethoven, mahavira, mahayana, maimonides, mallarme, mars lasar, mercy, metaphysica, metaphysics, mevlana celaleddin mehmed rumi, michelangelo di lodovico buonarroti simo, miguel de cervantes saavedra, mikhail yuryevich lermontov, milarepa, mono no aware, music, mystery, mystic, nagarjuna, neoplatonism, netsuke, new age, newton isaac, nikita mikhalkov, nirvana, nizami, novalis georg philipp friedrich von hard, origami, osho, oswald spengler, padmasambhava, pema jungne, percy bysshe shelley, peter weir, pitagora, plato, platonism, poem, poetry, publius ovidius naso, publius vergilius maro, quintus horatius flaccus, rabindranath tagore, rachmaninoff, ramanuja, ramayana, raphael raffaello santi sanzio, ray douglas bradbury, religion, rembrandt harmenz van rijn, richard wagner, rimsky-korsakov, robert southey, robin mclaurim williams, roger joseph zelazny, rolland, rose of the world, run, ryuichi sakamoto, saadi, sabi, sacred, sadhu, saigyo, saint, samuel taylor coleridge, sanctuary, schiller johann christoph friedrich, schopenhauer arthur, sefer yetzirah, sei shonagon, shakespeare william, shinto, siddhartha gautama buddha, skill, solaris, spirituality, sri aurobindo, stalker, swedenborg emanuel, tanka, tao te ching, taoism, tchaikovsky, the book of daniel, the holy grail, the holy spirit, theravada, theravāda, tibet, tolstoy, tragedy, tulsi das ramcharit-manasa, vajrayana, valmiki, vedanta, verhaeren, waka, watercolour, william james sidis, william shakespeare, wolfgang amadeus mozart johannes chrysos, wolfram von eschenbach Der jüngere Titur, woodcut, yamato, yoga, zen, zend avesta, zohar, zoroaster

    Homing is waiting for us
    with the awakening of my
    Heavenly Father

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    «...And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory...»

    THE SACRED BIBLE
    Friday, November 13th, 2009
    gailcarriger
         		11:02a
    It's All Go at Goodreads
     Today I'm being featured in the debut corner of the Goodreads newsletter. We had a lovely little interview. Here's a sample:

    Goodreads: Prudish Victorian society labels protagonist Alexia a "spinster" at age 26. Why this chaste time period for a feisty heroine like Alexia?

    Gail Carriger: I think Alexia, given her stalwart character and undeniably acerbic wit, needs something to struggle against, and an entire societal framework is a good start.

    And in more good Goodreads news, Felicia Day liked my book. How awesome is that?

    There are 130 other reviews up as well. Yes, 130. Wow. Goodreads is kicking Amazon 67's proverbial arse.



    Gail's Daily Dose
    Your Infusion of Cute:
    And more parasol art.

    Your Tisane of Smart:
    Emergency Tea Units.
    Your Writerly Tinctures:
    My dear friend Blake's very first author interview, he has a high concept fantasy coming out through Tor next February, and he is a total hoot.

    CAKE in Space: Back from agent, but now I don't have time for it.
    Smexy Book review is all about the relationship. "The cast of characters in Soulless will have you smiling throughout. Add in a tender romance and a clever mystery, and Soulless has made its way to my keeper shelf."
    SPOILER ALERT! Amazon has posted Changeless cover along with blurb. Blurb gives bits of Soulless away so don't read if you haven't read the first book!
    Blameless: Back from editor with edits to do.

    Quote of the Day:
    "I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this."
    ~ Cormac McCarthy

    Current Mood: busy
    Thursday, November 12th, 2009
    johno
         		6:01p
    plasticrapping
         		3:05p
    Day in short:

    Class was so boring. I almost fell asleep sitting up. God the guy is so dry...

    Potentiall room-mate stopped by. She's rad and I'm digging her. The only problem is she's really damn cute. She also doesn't snowboard.

    I'm studying now. Afterwards I'm going to class, and followed by that making Gnocci for Lauren. Tomorrow is snowboarding, as is Saturday and Sunday. Shredtastic!
    gailcarriger
         		10:07a
    Some Thoughts on Victorian Etiquette
     I was going to engage in this discussion over email but thought I would break netiquette to talk about it here instead, because it might interest some of my Gentle Readers.

    Is there a published set of rules by which males in the Victorian era were expected to approach and express interest in females?

    Not that I can pull out of a hat at short notice, although some of my readers out there may know differently (see comment on books on manners from a reader below). There might be something in the What Charles Dickens Ate and Jane Austen Knew book, but I have packed it away for the move so I can't check. I would urge caution not to rely on characters from Austen as, in her very subtle way, she is breaking the rules of courtship, not obeying them. Dickens, of course is more interested in the lower echelons of society, and he too is writing human-interest stories that involve, by their very nature, tampering with social convention. You might look later in time, oddly Wooster in P.G. Wodehouse's 1920s set books, behaves (around women) in a rather Victorian manner. It's part of the way Wodehouse is driving conflict.

    Is there a published set of rules for the converse direction?

    Again, I don't know, but a good general rule is that (as with sex) a lady always starts the conversation and a gentleman always finishes it, and in the middle the gentleman should act more than he talks. He is responsible for fetching things the lady needs (e.g. tea, punch, fan, dance card) and asking questions that a lady might like to answer, nothing too personal or intrusive (e.g. weather, fashion, dance, food, society).

    Were the rules different depending on social class?

    Absolutely, completely different. And dependent on ethnicity and location of said middle and lower classes as well, both within and outside of London. In general, the middle class from about 1840 on was far more strict about observance of social rules than the upper class for whom, particularly the gentlemen, many of the rules were reverse relaxed (possibly because they were dabbling with whores). In this respect you see very high-class men using low class slang but in their Eton accent (with other gentlemen), while the middle class try to imitate what they think is high class and taking it too far (nouveau riche). And, of course, if you are blue blooded enough almost any eccentricity could be forgiven in both men and older married/widowed women. A note on the military ~ kept mainly isolated when they returned from, sometimes, decades fighting abroad, they had their own kind of culture and interactions. The officers, bought commissions, did reintegrate somewhat into society but it could be difficult for them. There is a reason military men usually married the daughters of other military men.

    Lastly a word on outside influences, and this from my archaeology background. Victorian England did not exist in a bubble. Much as they hated to admit it, London especially was open to influence from across the channel and across the pond ~ dress, society, food, technology, and language. Victorians were cooking with pasta and calling fashion, objects, cuisine, and behavior by French titles. In addition to the middle class trying to break into high society, moneyed (via industry) Americans were traipsing over, particularly in the 1870s & 80s, to Get Culture through education or marriage (i.e. The Buccaneers unfinished last novel of Edith Wharton's). All of these components had their effect on what we, all too often think of as, isolated Victorians.


    Source

    Gail's Daily Dose
    Your Infusion of Cute:
    Parasol art installation in Houston.

    Your Tisane of Smart:
    Secrets from a Sunken Egyptian City
    Your Writerly Tinctures:
    Some very good advice on how writers should respond to rejection

    CAKE in Space: Back from agent, but now I don't have time for it.
    In which I am Restless Violet's first steampunk novel. Not sure Soulless ought to rightly be the vanguard of steampunk lit, but what the hay, I'll just go around lulling people into a false sense of absurdity.
    SPOILER ALERT! Amazon has posted Changeless cover along with blurb. Blurb gives bits of Soulless away so don't read if you haven't read the first book!
    Blameless: Handed in!

    Quote of the Day:
    "After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others."
    ~ Edith Wharton

    Current Mood: busy
    horndogrob
         		6:10a
    Last Night's Shennannigans
     I got off work early yesterday, and the girls had been good, so I thought we could go see a movie. (this is a HUGE treat in our house because we rent/buy so many movies for cheap that we don't feel the need to go see things in theater) I've been hearing a lot about Christmas Carol 3D and I thought the kids would get a kick out of it. So I look up show times, which is a pain in the you know what to begin with. They don't do a good job of delineating 2D from 3D screens on line. I linked from the 3D overview to showtimes thinking that would do it, but no. We tried to catch a 2:00 showing at one theater, but they had signs up saying they didn't do the 3D thing. So we tried to catch the 2:30 showing at another theater. NO signs saying anything about not having 3D, in fact, lots of signs advertising 3D. So I buy tickets for the 2:30 show and while the tickets are printing I make small talk about extra charges for the the 3D glasses or what not, and she says yah 3D has a more complex projector so it costs more, but this showing isn't 3D. What the hell do you think I'm buying tickets for the biggest 3D movie in the last decade for? So I try to get the tickets changed and of course we have to wait for a manager. I could catch the 2:00 showing which was already 15 minutes into it (would have been closer to 40 minutes by the time all was said and done) or get the 4:30 showing (which was NOT matinee, and thus defeating the whole purpose of going to a movie because I got off work early), and by now the kids are all ramped up for a movie in 3D... it turned out to be 50 freakin' bucks for 2 adults and 2 kids.

    I had told the kids that my boss's wife reached out and tried to touch the snow because it was so real. When the did the "Disney 3D" splash screen it had effects popping out and my 4 year old says "Whoaaa, I feel like I'm in snow!" Which was hilarious because it wasn't snow it was just some metal bars rotating around. The movie was GREAT! Really well done. I didn't get most of it because my eyes are different. (near in one eye, far in the other) So a lot of the 3D was lost on me, but the kids got a load of fun out of it, so it was worth it to me.

    Then we were almost late for a 7:15 appointment I had in Hillsboro (40 or more minutes away). But we made it. I was meeting someone to buy a new camera (craigslist). We got a Cannon A1100IS, which has mixed reviews but so far I like it. Then it's off to a pizza birthday party for a friend of ours that we haven't seen in a while. And that was fun times.
    mysteryal
         		1:08p
    And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice...
     Joseph d’Arimathie, Nāgārjuna, Vajrayāna, adi shankara, akhenaten, albius tibullus, alexander kaidanovsky, amaterasu, amitabha, ancient india, andrei arsenyevich tarkovsky, andrei rublev, antiquity, aristotele, aristotelianism, ashoka the great, aurelius augustinus, avalokitesvara, basho matsuo, bodhisattva, buddha dhamma, buddhism, calderon, calderon de la barca henao de la barreda, calligraphy, charles baudelaire, charles john huffam dickens, china, chretien de troyes, chris spheeris, christian kabbalah, christian kabbalists, christian mystics, christianity, christmas, classic, constance demby, copernicus, dandelion wine, daniel andreev, dante, dead poets society, descartes renatus cartesius, dharma, divine comedy, don quixote, dramatics, du fu, eduard nikolayevitch artemyev, edwin arnold, engraving, erckmann chatrian, ethics, european occultism, faust, ferdowsi, fine arts, florence, francesco petrarca, francis, friedrich schiller, fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, gaius valerius catullus, galilei, gathas, george macdonald, gilbert keith chesterton, giovanni pico della mirandola, godly, grail, grand st. graal, gunnr, gur, gurun, haiku, hauptmann, heaven, hegel, henrik ibsen, hermetic qabalah, hermeticism, hinduism, hokku, hugo, ikebana, indian summer, inklings, jacques prevert, james, japan, joan of arc, johann friedrich overbeck, johann sebastian bach, johann wolfgang von goethe, john keats, john milton, john the apostle, joseph of arimathie, kabbalah, kabuki, kalidasa, kamal, kanashi, kant immanuel, karunesh, kim ki-duk, kopernik, kriemhild, kriemhilt, lady ise, laozi, legends, leonardo da vinci, lewis, li bai, lincoln, liszt, logos, lotus sutra, luca, ludwig van beethoven, mahavira, mahayana, maimonides, mallarme, mars lasar, mercy, metaphysica, metaphysics, mevlana celaleddin mehmed rumi, michelangelo di lodovico buonarroti simo, miguel de cervantes saavedra, mikhail yuryevich lermontov, milarepa, mono no aware, music, mystery, mystic, nagarjuna, neoplatonism, netsuke, new age, newton isaac, nikita mikhalkov, nirvana, nizami, novalis georg philipp friedrich von hard, origami, osho, oswald spengler, padmasambhava, pema jungne, percy bysshe shelley, peter weir, pitagora, plato, platonism, poem, poetry, publius ovidius naso, publius vergilius maro, quintus horatius flaccus, rabindranath tagore, rachmaninoff, ramanuja, ramayana, raphael raffaello santi sanzio, ray douglas bradbury, religion, rembrandt harmenz van rijn, richard wagner, rimsky-korsakov, robert southey, robin mclaurim williams, roger joseph zelazny, rolland, rose of the world, run, ryuichi sakamoto, saadi, sabi, sacred, sadhu, saigyo, saint, samuel taylor coleridge, sanctuary, schiller johann christoph friedrich, schopenhauer arthur, sefer yetzirah, sei shonagon, shakespeare william, shinto, siddhartha gautama buddha, skill, solaris, spirituality, sri aurobindo, stalker, swedenborg emanuel, tanka, tao te ching, taoism, tchaikovsky, the book of daniel, the holy grail, the holy spirit, theravada, theravāda, tibet, tolstoy, tragedy, tulsi das ramcharit-manasa, vajrayana, valmiki, vedanta, verhaeren, waka, watercolour, william james sidis, william shakespeare, wolfgang amadeus mozart johannes chrysos, wolfram von eschenbach Der jüngere Titur, woodcut, yamato, yoga, zen, zend avesta, zohar, zoroaster

    what will take you
    through the darkest night
    of the year?..

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    «...And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy...»

    THE SACRED BIBLE
    plasticrapping
         		12:10a
    Short jaunts about life:

    Shit is stressing me out somewhat. Justin is flaking on getting me the money due to me for all the shit I sold him years ago. I've given him too many extensions, shit ends as soon as I can get over there next.

    School is meh. I'm getting so so grades. I feel over extending myself earlier in the semester has caused irreversible damage to my grades. I'm by no means failing, heck I'm probably high C's to high B's in everything, and defintiely an A in one class. However, I was hoping for all A's to continue to raise my GPA.

    Day 3 of snowboarding. Aaron Bikis, a good kid I like riding with who has a positive attitude, has a fusion pass. I'm stoked to have some one as into pushing themselves in the park as I am. Midget is fun to ride with (Angela) but she isn't as into pushing herself. She does just enough to claim freestyle status, and while thats cool it makes her happy, it's not quite enough for me. She's still good company and a very positive person to be around, so I like having her around as well.

    I've coined my own little term for snowboarding. Every day is an everything day. No just power days, no just park days... just go out and do everything. Jump off of stuff, otno stuff, around stuff, through powder, over trees, into trees, into your friends, whatever. Just have fun.


    New room-mate search is a slow one.
    Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
    johno
         		6:01p
    johno
         		10:54a
    Air Force, Army, Marines & Navy.

    Members of my family have served in them all.

    One cousin crossed the Libyan "line of death" in a nuclear cruiser.
    Another was a front line chaplain's assistant in the 1st gulf war.
    One uncle joined the navy at the tail end of the Korean war.
    Another did 3 tours in Vietnam and never recovered from PTSD.
    Yet another did 20 years in the Navy serving during both the Korean & Vietnam wars.
    And yet another did his 2 year draft time between the two wars.

    Me, I did 5 years in the Air Force during the "quiet" 80s.

    We are quietly proud of our service, but we have none of the arrogant "I served so you should honor me" bullshit.

    We are honest about our service. We may not tell you everything we did, but what you'll hear is the unvarnished truth.


    So for everyone thanking veterans today, no thanks are needed. We did what needed doing.

    To those who serve today and have served, I salute you.
    gailcarriger
         		10:44a
    Vampire Interview & Other Quandary
     Being interviewed today over on Vampire Film Fest. Here's a sample:

    VF: Any favorite vampires from lit, film, or TV?

    GC: I don't think he really counts, but I love Dorian Gray. I have a real soft spot for Mina Murray in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman graphic novel series and I adore the character of Drusilla on Buffy. Not to sneak in werewolves, but I was turned to the furry side by Klause's brilliant YA novel Blood and Chocolate.

    And, in leau of a proper blog (life, my dears, is hitting me hard) I give you one of my favorite recent blogs, all about how urban fantasy and paranormal books have headless people on their covers. The Curious Case of the Headless Heroine, Or the Torso Rides at Midnight



    Gail's Daily Dose
    Your Infusion of Cute:
    Octopus keds.

    Your Tisane of Smart:
    Scots Aim Lasers at Landmarks
    Your Writerly Tinctures:
    All about attitude in query letters

    CAKE in Space: Back from agent, but now I don't have time for it.
    Book Buyer Anonymous has become obsessed. "Hijinx of the best kind ensue: espionage, flamboyant vampires, uninvited advances, and streetside groping, oh my!" And more from Goodreads & Powells.
    SPOILER ALERT! Amazon has posted Changeless cover along with blurb. Blurb gives bits of Soulless away so don't read if you haven't read the first book!
    Blameless: Handed in!

    Quote of the Day:
    "I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write."
    ~ P. G. Wodehouse

    Current Mood: calm
    mysteryal
         		5:53p
    Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!
     Joseph d’Arimathie, Nāgārjuna, Vajrayāna, adi shankara, akhenaten, albius tibullus, alexander kaidanovsky, amaterasu, amitabha, ancient india, andrei arsenyevich tarkovsky, andrei rublev, antiquity, aristotele, aristotelianism, ashoka the great, aurelius augustinus, avalokitesvara, basho matsuo, bodhisattva, buddha dhamma, buddhism, calderon, calderon de la barca henao de la barreda, calligraphy, charles baudelaire, charles john huffam dickens, china, chretien de troyes, chris spheeris, christian kabbalah, christian kabbalists, christian mystics, christianity, christmas, classic, constance demby, copernicus, dandelion wine, daniel andreev, dante, dead poets society, descartes renatus cartesius, dharma, divine comedy, don quixote, dramatics, du fu, eduard nikolayevitch artemyev, edwin arnold, engraving, erckmann chatrian, ethics, european occultism, faust, ferdowsi, fine arts, florence, francesco petrarca, francis, friedrich schiller, fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, gaius valerius catullus, galilei, gathas, george macdonald, gilbert keith chesterton, giovanni pico della mirandola, godly, grail, grand st. graal, gunnr, gur, gurun, haiku, hauptmann, heaven, hegel, henrik ibsen, hermetic qabalah, hermeticism, hinduism, hokku, hugo, ikebana, indian summer, inklings, jacques prevert, james, japan, joan of arc, johann friedrich overbeck, johann sebastian bach, johann wolfgang von goethe, john keats, john milton, john the apostle, joseph of arimathie, kabbalah, kabuki, kalidasa, kamal, kanashi, kant immanuel, karunesh, kim ki-duk, kopernik, kriemhild, kriemhilt, lady ise, laozi, legends, leonardo da vinci, lewis, li bai, lincoln, liszt, logos, lotus sutra, luca, ludwig van beethoven, mahavira, mahayana, maimonides, mallarme, mars lasar, mercy, metaphysica, metaphysics, mevlana celaleddin mehmed rumi, michelangelo di lodovico buonarroti simo, miguel de cervantes saavedra, mikhail yuryevich lermontov, milarepa, mono no aware, music, mystery, mystic, nagarjuna, neoplatonism, netsuke, new age, newton isaac, nikita mikhalkov, nirvana, nizami, novalis georg philipp friedrich von hard, origami, osho, oswald spengler, padmasambhava, pema jungne, percy bysshe shelley, peter weir, pitagora, plato, platonism, poem, poetry, publius ovidius naso, publius vergilius maro, quintus horatius flaccus, rabindranath tagore, rachmaninoff, ramanuja, ramayana, raphael raffaello santi sanzio, ray douglas bradbury, religion, rembrandt harmenz van rijn, richard wagner, rimsky-korsakov, robert southey, robin mclaurim williams, roger joseph zelazny, rolland, rose of the world, run, ryuichi sakamoto, saadi, sabi, sacred, sadhu, saigyo, saint, samuel taylor coleridge, sanctuary, schiller johann christoph friedrich, schopenhauer arthur, sefer yetzirah, sei shonagon, shakespeare william, shinto, siddhartha gautama buddha, skill, solaris, spirituality, sri aurobindo, stalker, swedenborg emanuel, tanka, tao te ching, taoism, tchaikovsky, the book of daniel, the holy grail, the holy spirit, theravada, theravāda, tibet, tolstoy, tragedy, tulsi das ramcharit-manasa, vajrayana, valmiki, vedanta, verhaeren, waka, watercolour, william james sidis, william shakespeare, wolfgang amadeus mozart johannes chrysos, wolfram von eschenbach Der jüngere Titur, woodcut, yamato, yoga, zen, zend avesta, zohar, zoroaster

    Conciliation...
    silver blood
    upon fallen leaves...

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    «...Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls...»

    THE SACRED BIBLE
    Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
    johno
         		10:40p
    Happy Birthday!
     to [info]mortefina.

    May your day have been filled with love and laughter and gothy roller skates!
    johno
         		6:02p
    johno
         		4:15p
    Tire changed, now can I fall over?
     I never expected changing a tire would be so difficult.

    Thanks Toyota for the wimpy little jack.

    But no rest for the wicked, off the to the tire place to get it replaced.
    Monday, November 9th, 2009
    plasticrapping
         		12:17p
    I'm going to get back in the habit of posting to do lists on LJ. It helps me sort out my days, and it lets you all know what I am up to. I also include commentary occasionally, heh.

  • Organize house a bit so as I feel organized and comfortable.
  • Go food shopping
  • Prep new snowboard for ridign on wednesday
  • Complete some of the elm ridge MFG web page. Ideally get it most the way done down to the last complex part.
  • Put up Craigslist advert seeking new room-mate. Try and find a snowboarder this time again!
  • Homework. A project and a quiz are do in project management.
  • Attempt to de-poop backyard. Poor sabester...
  • Maybe see lauren?
    • gailcarriger
         		10:36a
    Alexia's London: Supper Nov 9, 1876
     Supper for Today, 1876, in a London Townhouse
    • Chicken soup ~ with vermicelli, bacon, and soaked bread
    • Devonshire squab pie ~ made of pippins, mutton steaks, and onion
    • Corner dish ~ of pickled beatroot
    • Lemon Turnovers ~ made with lemon rind, sugar, and milk


    Gail's Daily Dose
    Your Infusion of Cute:
    Via my dear friend Bob.

    Your Tisane of Smart:
    Short film about the UK steampunk exhibition.

    Your Writerly Tinctures:
    The power of giving books away.

    CAKE in Space: Back from agent, but now I don't have time for it.
    It's official I've been pirated and also here.
    SPOILER ALERT! Amazon has posted Changeless cover along with blurb. Blurb gives bits of Soulless away so don't read if you haven't read the first book!
    Blameless: Handed in!

    Quote of the Day:
    "Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage."
    ~ Catherine Douzel

    Current Mood: sad
    Current Music: Silence is Golden
    Sunday, November 8th, 2009
    mysteryal
         		3:19p
    Sky's Beyond
     Joseph d’Arimathie, Nāgārjuna, Vajrayāna, adi shankara, akhenaten, albius tibullus, alexander kaidanovsky, amaterasu, amitabha, ancient india, andrei arsenyevich tarkovsky, andrei rublev, antiquity, aristotele, aristotelianism, ashoka the great, aurelius augustinus, avalokitesvara, basho matsuo, bodhisattva, buddha dhamma, buddhism, calderon, calderon de la barca henao de la barreda, calligraphy, charles baudelaire, charles john huffam dickens, china, chretien de troyes, chris spheeris, christian kabbalah, christian kabbalists, christian mystics, christianity, christmas, classic, constance demby, copernicus, dandelion wine, daniel andreev, dante, dead poets society, descartes renatus cartesius, dharma, divine comedy, don quixote, dramatics, du fu, eduard nikolayevitch artemyev, edwin arnold, engraving, erckmann chatrian, ethics, european occultism, faust, ferdowsi, fine arts, florence, francesco petrarca, francis, friedrich schiller, fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, gaius valerius catullus, galilei, gathas, george macdonald, gilbert keith chesterton, giovanni pico della mirandola, godly, grail, grand st. graal, gunnr, gur, gurun, haiku, hauptmann, heaven, hegel, henrik ibsen, hermetic qabalah, hermeticism, hinduism, hokku, hugo, ikebana, indian summer, inklings, jacques prevert, james, japan, joan of arc, johann friedrich overbeck, johann sebastian bach, johann wolfgang von goethe, john keats, john milton, john the apostle, joseph of arimathie, kabbalah, kabuki, kalidasa, kamal, kanashi, kant immanuel, karunesh, kim ki-duk, kopernik, kriemhild, kriemhilt, lady ise, laozi, legends, leonardo da vinci, lewis, li bai, lincoln, liszt, logos, lotus sutra, luca, ludwig van beethoven, mahavira, mahayana, maimonides, mallarme, mars lasar, mercy, metaphysica, metaphysics, mevlana celaleddin mehmed rumi, michelangelo di lodovico buonarroti simo, miguel de cervantes saavedra, mikhail yuryevich lermontov, milarepa, mono no aware, music, mystery, mystic, nagarjuna, neoplatonism, netsuke, new age, newton isaac, nikita mikhalkov, nirvana, nizami, novalis georg philipp friedrich von hard, origami, osho, oswald spengler, padmasambhava, pema jungne, percy bysshe shelley, peter weir, pitagora, plato, platonism, poem, poetry, publius ovidius naso, publius vergilius maro, quintus horatius flaccus, rabindranath tagore, rachmaninoff, ramanuja, ramayana, raphael raffaello santi sanzio, ray douglas bradbury, religion, rembrandt harmenz van rijn, richard wagner, rimsky-korsakov, robert southey, robin mclaurim williams, roger joseph zelazny, rolland, rose of the world, run, ryuichi sakamoto, saadi, sabi, sacred, sadhu, saigyo, saint, samuel taylor coleridge, sanctuary, schiller johann christoph friedrich, schopenhauer arthur, sefer yetzirah, sei shonagon, shakespeare william, shinto, siddhartha gautama buddha, skill, solaris, spirituality, sri aurobindo, stalker, swedenborg emanuel, tanka, tao te ching, taoism, tchaikovsky, the book of daniel, the holy grail, the holy spirit, theravada, theravāda, tibet, tolstoy, tragedy, tulsi das ramcharit-manasa, vajrayana, valmiki, vedanta, verhaeren, waka, watercolour, william james sidis, william shakespeare, wolfgang amadeus mozart johannes chrysos, wolfram von eschenbach Der jüngere Titur, woodcut, yamato, yoga, zen, zend avesta, zohar, zoroaster

    sleep without fear...
    nothing shall disturb
    the little heart...

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    «...And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne...»

    THE SACRED BIBLE
    Saturday, November 7th, 2009
    johno
         		3:02p
    SorcererCon here we come.
     Alas, no LosCon for us this year.

    $$$ for one car service this week and another $$$ for the other car next week, just zapped the travel budget.

    So it's SorcererCon here we come.

    http://sorcerercon.com/
    mysteryal
         		4:11p
    From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away...
     Joseph d’Arimathie, Nāgārjuna, Vajrayāna, adi shankara, akhenaten, albius tibullus, alexander kaidanovsky, amaterasu, amitabha, ancient india, andrei arsenyevich tarkovsky, andrei rublev, antiquity, aristotele, aristotelianism, ashoka the great, aurelius augustinus, avalokitesvara, basho matsuo, bodhisattva, buddha dhamma, buddhism, calderon, calderon de la barca henao de la barreda, calligraphy, charles baudelaire, charles john huffam dickens, china, chretien de troyes, chris spheeris, christian kabbalah, christian kabbalists, christian mystics, christianity, christmas, classic, constance demby, copernicus, dandelion wine, daniel andreev, dante, dead poets society, descartes renatus cartesius, dharma, divine comedy, don quixote, dramatics, du fu, eduard nikolayevitch artemyev, edwin arnold, engraving, erckmann chatrian, ethics, european occultism, faust, ferdowsi, fine arts, florence, francesco petrarca, francis, friedrich schiller, fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, gaius valerius catullus, galilei, gathas, george macdonald, gilbert keith chesterton, giovanni pico della mirandola, godly, grail, grand st. graal, gunnr, gur, gurun, haiku, hauptmann, heaven, hegel, henrik ibsen, hermetic qabalah, hermeticism, hinduism, hokku, hugo, ikebana, indian summer, inklings, jacques prevert, james, japan, joan of arc, johann friedrich overbeck, johann sebastian bach, johann wolfgang von goethe, john keats, john milton, john the apostle, joseph of arimathie, kabbalah, kabuki, kalidasa, kamal, kanashi, kant immanuel, karunesh, kim ki-duk, kopernik, kriemhild, kriemhilt, lady ise, laozi, legends, leonardo da vinci, lewis, li bai, lincoln, liszt, logos, lotus sutra, luca, ludwig van beethoven, mahavira, mahayana, maimonides, mallarme, mars lasar, mercy, metaphysica, metaphysics, mevlana celaleddin mehmed rumi, michelangelo di lodovico buonarroti simo, miguel de cervantes saavedra, mikhail yuryevich lermontov, milarepa, mono no aware, music, mystery, mystic, nagarjuna, neoplatonism, netsuke, new age, newton isaac, nikita mikhalkov, nirvana, nizami, novalis georg philipp friedrich von hard, origami, osho, oswald spengler, padmasambhava, pema jungne, percy bysshe shelley, peter weir, pitagora, plato, platonism, poem, poetry, publius ovidius naso, publius vergilius maro, quintus horatius flaccus, rabindranath tagore, rachmaninoff, ramanuja, ramayana, raphael raffaello santi sanzio, ray douglas bradbury, religion, rembrandt harmenz van rijn, richard wagner, rimsky-korsakov, robert southey, robin mclaurim williams, roger joseph zelazny, rolland, rose of the world, run, ryuichi sakamoto, saadi, sabi, sacred, sadhu, saigyo, saint, samuel taylor coleridge, sanctuary, schiller johann christoph friedrich, schopenhauer arthur, sefer yetzirah, sei shonagon, shakespeare william, shinto, siddhartha gautama buddha, skill, solaris, spirituality, sri aurobindo, stalker, swedenborg emanuel, tanka, tao te ching, taoism, tchaikovsky, the book of daniel, the holy grail, the holy spirit, theravada, theravāda, tibet, tolstoy, tragedy, tulsi das ramcharit-manasa, vajrayana, valmiki, vedanta, verhaeren, waka, watercolour, william james sidis, william shakespeare, wolfgang amadeus mozart johannes chrysos, wolfram von eschenbach Der jüngere Titur, woodcut, yamato, yoga, zen, zend avesta, zohar, zoroaster

    Four in the morning...
    Rain that was pouring all night
    Seems to be over

    Moon through the shutters...
    Wait for the end of the world…
    Under the blanket

    Chants of the heavenly knights,
    Towers and secrets...
    Flags of the faithful arise
    Up to the heaven

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    «...And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God...»

    THE SACRED BIBLE
    Friday, November 6th, 2009
    gailcarriger
         		10:17a
    World Fantasy Day 4: Sunday November 1, 2009 The End
     The last day of World Fantasy was rather a recovery period. I tried, unsuccessfully, to kidnap my editor but we ended up eating breakfast at the hotel and mostly staring at each other dumbly with hangovers. After that, I double-checked the suite to make sure it was nice and clean (or as clean as possible after that kind of party), changed, and attended the World Fantasy Awards Banquet on Ken Scholes's arm. The food was delicious, the company excellent, and the speeches, blessedly, short. Can't ask for a nicer way to end a weekend. Except that I returned home to find the car unpacked and my darling mum vacuuming the living room. Best mum evah!

    One last thing, the boys have begun calling me the Princess of Steampunk, I accept this accolade with all the pink frilliness it deserves, and will attempt to come up with an appropriate steampunk costume homage to She-ra as a result. But, I demand a tiara!

    Oh and here's my business card round up:
    • Maryelizabeth Hart from Mysterious Galaxy (happens to be my friend Bob's favorite bookshop. I grilled her about not having Soulless up to buy, because I wanted to link to as many independents as possible. She said it was now, and it is!
    • Cliff who dances a mean swing.
    • Michael McLaughlin who draws some awesome art.
    • ElizaBeth Gilligan who told me about the Joys or Research Yahoo Group, I'm intrigued.
    • Snow Glass Books all the way from Australia, hopefully I'll get to see them next year at World Con in Melbourne.
    • Rare book dealer Books Upstairs.
    • Andrew Michael Schwartz, author whose webpage doesn't appear to be working.
    • The Shortbread Fiancé himself, Myke Cole (who needs a better webpage).
    • Peter V. Brett, horrible enabler of drunken editors and embarrassing youtubes.
    • Brent Weeks, fellow Orbit author and big time trouble.
    • And last but not least, John Kilma of Hugo award winning Electric Velocipede, whom I have heard interviewed on Adventures in SciFi Publishing liked Soulless invited me to submit a short story. I thought my short story days were over, but if I have something that suits his taste I may just venture. Or perhaps I'll write a little ditty special about Alessandro & Floote, or Lyall, or even Lord Akeldama. We shall see . . .
    Now, just in case you don't trust my opinion here are some others blogging about World Fantasy:
    Donwong Song ~ editor at Orbit
    Devi Pillai ~ my editor at Orbit
    Lucienne Diver ~ agent extraordinaire and author fabulouso
    Fellow author and dear friend Blake Charlton has another author perspective.


    Gail's Daily Dose
    Your Infusion of Cute:
    Sunday World Fantasy Awards Outfit

    Your Tisane of Smart:
    Roman-era cemetery uncovered near Hebron
    Your Writerly Tinctures:
    How Does an Author Gain Trust of His/Her Work?

    CAKE in Space: Back from agent, but now I don't have time for it.
    Kind thoughts from Pure Imagination Blog. "Gail Carriger has created new series that will have everyone hooked."
    SPOILER ALERT! Amazon has posted Changeless cover along with blurb. Blurb gives bits of Soulless away so don't read if you haven't read the first book!
    Blameless: Handed in!

    Quote of the Day:
    "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
    ~ G. K. Chesterton

    Current Mood: chipper
    Current Music: Silence is Golden
    micahchaplin
         		1:22p
    Inappropriate Use of Funds
     so, many people are nice & irritated with the catholic church for illegally using church money & collecting at church. so, you want to do something about it but dont know how. well here are the instructions for making a complaint to the IRS. you do not need to be a resident of maine to do this and it'll probably take l...ess than 30min to do. To keep our noses out of their preaching they have to keep their noses out of politics. it's the law.

    so post & re-post

    "The narrow lose of marriage equality in the state of Maine got you down? So mad you could spit? Fed up with religious organizations blithely contribute to political campaigns while blithely maintaining their tax exempt status? Well take all the pent up frustration and channel it into a worthwhile endeavour. Lodging an official complaint against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, ME.
    How you ask?
    Why it's easy!


    First go to this website, http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=131651,00.html(you have to copy and paste this one folks, the old fb can't handle commas in a hyperlink) to download the instructions and official IRS form. That's right kids, there's a handy dandy official form.


    Then check out these websites for documentation of the Roman Catholic Diocese's inappropriate and prohibited lobbying activities:

    http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/120219.html

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=17112

    http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/126665.html



    And the piece de resistance?

    A list of all contributions made by the Diocese. Love it!



    http://www.mainecampaignfinance.com/public/entity_financial_transactions.asp?TYPE=BQC&ID=4528



    Print it all out, put your package together, give it a little kiss and drop it in the mail.

    Don't forget the EIN! 77-061-2679 Or the address: 510 Ocean Ave Portland, ME 04103.

    Texas will be swimming in complaints in no time.



    In all seriousness, the more people who complain, the more credence the IRS will have to give it. Let's all work together on this. Take a stand for love, tolerance and playing by the rules. I promise you won't regret it."
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