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Jun. 25th, 2009 02:07 pm
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[livejournal.com profile] siriaeve just dropped some knowledge on me: THE WINCHESTER GOSPELS ACTUALLY EXIST. Like really for real. It is trufax!

No word yet on whether Dean is full-frontal in them, though.

Today is my day off and I am supposed to be cleaning my apartment, finishing a fic I want to post tomorrow, and deciding whether I would rather work on a sequel to "Quarters" or to "Make the Man." Instead I am still in my pajamas, not doing any of those things.

However, I don't totally suck, because I met Jack Davenport yesterday and talked to him and sold him books and did NOT slip up and tell him I think he has the sexiest voice on the planet, even though he totally does. Go me?
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I'm sitting here trying to write gay angel porn and eating the tail end of a box of chocolates given to me by Kathy Ireland.

My life is weird.
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The Latest Edition of Trin's New Job Celebrity Watch Tally! )

*cough* And now, some much more dignified discussion of literature!

21. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love — Raymond Carver ) I think in future I will just limit my intake. An occasional nibble—great. A heavy meal, though—uh-oh, now you’re gonna need to lie down.




22. after the quake — Haruki Murakami ) This was like a lovely little Murakami snack before I move onto the feast of his next novel.

(I will stop with the food metaphors now.)




23. & 24. Runaways: True Believers & Runaways: Escape to New York — Brian K. Vaughan ) there are shapeshifting aliens and wacky time travel shenanigans and funny Wolverine and Spider-Man cameos. Who am I to complain?




25. The Pluto Files — Neil deGrasse Tyson ) This is all totally true. NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.




26. World of M — Daniel Way, et. al. ) wacky alternate universe shenanigans should by all rights be way more fun than this.




27. The Boy Detective Fails — Joe Meno ) Weirdest Dr. Horrible AU ever, y/y?




28. Paper Towns — John Green ) I’m pleased anytime I come across one of these stories in which the female character is as vivid as the male, instead of just one of a long row of interchangeable Galateas.




29. Howling Mad — Peter David ) DON’T BE FOOLED, FUTURE SELF! Maybe you could try learning from your mistakes for once?




30. Dramarama — E. Lockhart ) I’ll bet you’ll find yourself anxious to devour everything she’s ever written. I certainly have.

Total Reviews: 30/44
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Bad news: I left my glasses in my coworker's car, so I am SO BLIND RIGHT NOW.

Good news: after joking with several people that since I would be working in Malibu, I would probably see Joe Flanigan going about his daily Flan, I ACTUALLY SAW HIM! )

*cough* Okay, we now return to your (ir)regularly scheduled booklog.

11. Under the Jaguar Sun — Italo Calvino ) So far I like Brockmeier’s descriptions of Calvino’s writing better than the actual product, but I shall hold onto hope.





12. Kangaroo Notebook — Kobo Abe ) Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes is supposed to be a classic, one of the things you MUST READ if you are cultivating an interest in Japanese literature. I am now, however, disinclined to.




13. The Diving Pool — Yoko Ogawa ) Ogawa’s use of language is both seductive and severely disquieting; I will definitely be seeking out more of her work.




14. House of M — Brian Michael Bendis ) I demand internal logic!




15. The Audacity of Hope — Barack Obama ) What Siria said.




16. The Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood ) not awful. But kind of redundant.




17. Superman: Birthright — Mark Waid ) “Oh yeah! This is what Smallville would have been like if it were good!”




18. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman — Haruki Murakami ) I always enjoy small peeks into the writing process like that.




19. Deaf Sentence — David Lodge ) I found the divorce process distracting and rather coarse.




20. The Bro Code — Matt Kuhn ) NPH makes everything better.

Total Reviews: 20/29

You know, there's a weird theme of blindness or other impairment in this selection. I totally should have seen this coming.
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The grisly sight that greeted me when I went to take out the trash just now...

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Closer... )
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[livejournal.com profile] ebrooklynw and I went to see a reading of Kate Hewlett’s play “Humans Anonymous” last night. It was FANTASTIC—I was really, really impressed. She’s an incredibly funny writer, which I guess shouldn’t be a surprise, but the play was also quite moving and most of all, real. There were also clearly lots of cool visual/staging things in the script that impressively came across even in a straight reading; I really hope the play gets the planned full-fledged staging here in L.A. soon. I want to see it properly, and also, I think y’all would dig it.

The…well, not the backstage drama, but the house drama of going to this play was less full of overwhelming awesome. DRAMAZ! )
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Watching Friday's SGA with my mom was a bad idea )

In other news, B&N has done something really regrettable: they've instituted a $1 sale. This means that there's a massive table filled with shitty books that our customers are pouncing on like rare pearls. And oh my God, these people are VULTURES. I had to go in early last night because we were so overwhelmed with bargain-hunters. And these people get unreasonably angry, too. They'll bring, like, a $50 art book to the register and expect it to be $1 because they found it on the $1 table. Then they'll be some variation on this conversation:

Me: I'm sorry, this isn't actually $1.
Vulture-Consumer: It was on the $1 table.
Me: It doesn't have a dollar sticker on it and it's not coming up in the computer as being $1. I'm sorry.
VC: But it was on the $1 table!
Me: People pick things up from other areas of the store and put them down there. I'm really sorry.
VC: Well! That's extremely misleading.
VC huffily pays for crappy thriller or outdated book about birds/tying knots/minor eastern religious sect.

On the plus side, yesterday brought about another B&N Celebrity Encounter (TM)--William H. Macy! He was with his small daughter, and he bought this John Lithgow children's book, and an If You Give a Mouse a Cookie doll. I went with my usual celebrity encounter approach and behaved like a glassy-eyed moron who had never been to the movies and had absolutely no idea who he was. I hope he appreciated it.
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Er, hi.

So, since I last updated, I've:

*Worked many long hours at a job I'm finding increasingly mediocre despite the fact that last night I got to sell a gay sex book to Amanda Bynes, who took care to tell me it was "for a friend";

*Failed to secure housing in Dublin, which is bad;

*Met [livejournal.com profile] monanotlisa, which was good;

and,

*Gotten hopelessly addicted to Stargate: Atlantis, much to my own shock, believe me.

Er, yeah. So about that. I think I'm going to want to post about this now. A lot. And unless I'm greatly mistaken (please, please let me be greatly mistaken) I don't think many (any?) people on my friends list are into this show. (Besides the people I just friended...hiiiiiii!) I see two solutions to this problem. This first is that you all get into it...right now! Go read [livejournal.com profile] daughtershade's introduction (with pretty pictures); then read [livejournal.com profile] astolat's A Beautiful Lifetime Event. That should be all it takes, really. Although I'm a little unsure of my pimping skills, to be honest. I forced [livejournal.com profile] spazatron to watch two episodes and I couldn't crack his anti-SGA resolve. (Damn you, [livejournal.com profile] spazatron! Damn you and your stony, stony resolve!)

Option two, of course, is that you shake your heads and with wry smiles upon your infinitely tolerant faces, ignore my odd geeky ways. You can also comfort yourselves with the knowledge that if I have something fandom-y to post about occasionally, the volume of my posts in general tends to increase as well. So that means SGA!squee with a side of B&N bitching! I can hear you shouting for joy from here.

So, in summary: work sucks. Rodney rocks. The end.

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