You guys, there's something awesome from Dinosaur Comics that is finally available for sale, just in time for Christmas!!

OH MY GOODNESS

In case you missed it yesterday: New Moon in Fifteen Minutes. I spent something like ten days in the comedy mines on that thing--not sure why it was so much harder than even I thought it would be, but it was, although I feel like it turned out decently well--so trust me, I will not be letting you forget it any time soon. And yes, I do read every single comment that comes in, via my email, so if you go over and say something, no, I won't miss it.

So, as promised: I did not do a damn thing today. I didn't even turn on the computer until 6 pm. I did read email comments and Twitter on my phone, wrote in my diary, sat outside in the very pleasant chill for a while, played with the dogs--honestly, I do not know how I actually spent the hours from eight to three. I was kind of bored the whole time, but in a very nice way.

I also had a very strange dream--( In which I meet the man of my dreams, literally )


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Tags: dreams, m15m, twilight
Current Mood: lazy
Current Music: Heather Nova - "Make You Mine"

Ted stays stress free by meditating in the sun.


( More pet pics ) Oh yeah if you didn't guess Scarlet died last week... Curly's the new addition.

I need a curio cabinet or something for all the ridiculously adorable thingies people have gotten me over the years (hand-painted ranma1/2 piggie banks, vibrating hedgehogs, plush viruses...). I mean there are only so many bookshelves in my life and they just aren't cutting it BECAUSE I WANT TO STARE AT THE CUTE THINGS 24/7

New Moon in Fifteen Minutes.

Yeah, I probably struck a couple of True Believer nerves in there. Also, I let it run long on purpose. Haters to the left. It was HARD and I am not going to do JACK SHIT for the next couple of days. HUZZAH.


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Tags: actual sparkle motion, haters to the left, m15m, sparkle motion, this is going to end well, twilight
Current Mood: tired, still kind of weak
Current Music: The Outfield - "Your Love"

waiting for a truck full of books to arrive today

eat skull - dog religion

Stiiiiiilll worrrrrking on New Moooooon. To that end, does anyone have a still/screencap of that really ridiculous, blatant fanservice moment when Jacob takes off his shirt to, like, dab at Bella's head? I mean the exact moment when he takes it off, you know the shot. It's an illustrated Fifteen Minutes, and the more on-the-nose the picture is, the better the punchline will work, and I only have shots from later in the scene. I just really don't want to Google for it, you know? The internets scare me.

(I'm wrestling with the last few problem scenes and trying to go back and polish the finished ones while I rack my brain for something interesting. It's running long--well, by "long" I mean "the standard 5000 words that most of the older ones are," but Twilight has kind of taken the place of the Harry Potter fandom in terms of OMG YOU LEFT OUT MY FAVORITE PARRRRRRT complaints. Within the stuff I felt compelled to include, I'm trying to tighten as much as possible. Also, the coding on this one has been a bitch because I tried to get fancy with a text effect. Fnarr.)


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Tags: m15m, my life is so hard omg, questions, twilight, writing

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, The Answers: Part 4 of 4
Sorry! I didn't mean to be so slow with the answers!

October:

1. I won "weirdest costume" in the office by wearing a dollar store item for the second year in a row.
   
   LIE!
   I did repeat my dollar store success, but the Groucho Sharx glasses of yesteryear were replaced by a freakishly horrifying mask, not an oddity. Therefore the category I won was "scariest costume", not "weirdest". The prize was a lot weaker, too. Instead of winning a $40 Barnes & Noble gift card, I walked away with an H1N1 gift basket (a gag gift containing tissues, hand sanitizer, Tamiflu [an empty box], et al).
   
   
2. I wished my dad happy birthday from a turnpike rest stop because it was almost midnight.
   
   TRUTH!
   I played in a Magic: The Gathering tournament in Brooklyn that day, and I performed well enough to leave really late. I was 31st out of 226 players. I suppose if I had made Top 8 and played in the finals, I would have missed wishing Dad happy birthday altogether! So, sometimes losing is worthwhile. The rest stop was very accommodating, replete with payphones and a comfortable nearby chair for sitting. We talked for over an hour.
   
   
3. I bought a painting without knowing anything about the artist, flipped through a graphic novel in Barnes & Noble three weeks later, and noticed it was by the same artist.
   
   TRUTH!
   The timing of this explanation is very apropos! Starting this Friday, I will have two paintings on display at the gallery where this purchase happened. It's Manhattan's Six by Six Gallery. A friend operates this newly opened space that sells 6" x 6" canvases to artists who return them covered in visual manifestations of ideas ("Art"). I purchased Danica Novgorodoff's Iceland without the knowledge that she recently completed a graphic novel called Refresh, Refresh. I added the book to my Wish List after typing that last sentence but before typing this one.
   

The new Made of Fail podcast is up, and it's something like my fifth appearance on the show--and this time we also have Rinna from Poufwa, the first podcast I ever did! Also, my sexy, sexy phlegm ("Yeah... I'm reporting live from my death bed..."), brought in loud and clear courtesy of my new headset. Topic: half New Moon and half Crazy Fans, with a substantial segment on the Dollhouse cancellation up front (aw, hell, I just heard myself cough in the background).

("I am in bed with another woman right now...")

And now, I'm going back to bed.


ETA: OH BY THE WAY we totally discuss the Twilight porno that Dayna watched for us.

ETA: Who has the "fever of a hundred and werewolf" thermometer icon, and who made it? Because I totally need to start using that.



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Tags: computer: lizzie, made of fail, podcasts, sparkle motion, twilight
Current Mood: sick

the second printing of the pfsc book arrives next week, you'll need to order it soon if you want it for christmastimes

santana v. - totensamba