IT APPEARS THAT THE CAUTIOUS ICON TORTURES THE AMIABLE MOSQUITO.
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Joining the caboose of this long meme train:

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. The article title is the name of your band.
Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3. The final words of the last quote on your page are the title of your album.
Go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ The FOURTH image on the page is your album cover. You can choose to go to http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrsocial/pool/ if you prefer a more dynamic, less philosophical cover.
Design your cover. Layout and presentation are up to you.
Post your cover, along with these instructions. In the comments your friends will tell you what kind of music you play and the name of the album's single.

My Band: Coaming
My Album: Leave Immediately After
My Album Art:


(Coaming, it should be pointed out, sounds dirty, but it's not.)

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A fun meme what comes my way from murrday. Hidden behind the cut as there are many (150) little pictures and such:

( My Interests Collage! )

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A meme I pinched from... me.

1. Look over my list of interests on my profile. Choose one, and ask me what's up with me listing it as an interest.

2. Look over my list of interests again, and if there's something you expected to see there that is not, ask me what's up with that. (Limit 1 per customer.)

3. I comment back with my entertaining and informative reply.

4. You post this meme in your LiveJournal, and I get to ask these questions of you.

5. Profit!

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As brought to my lutefisk-ravaged attention by robotech_master and flemco:



I haven't checked yet, but given popular conspiracy theories concerning the true authorship of Shakespeare's works, it's entirely possible the word that 'gwox' was substituted for is 'bacon.'

Mmmmm. Bacon.

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I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for gwox are close by:

• starmanmatt (50 - 100)
• arconius, dansr, wheredo_ibelong, jenmfinj, gwalcharianwife, sunpony, jennyz29 (150 - 200)
• pleonastic, tbutler, bodhranplayer, jarodrussell (200 - 250)

( More results below the cut... )

Created by ciphergoth; hosted by LShift.

TrustFlow II: Who is closest to your friends list?

Meme pinched like a nickle bag of funk from flemco:

"When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y."

( Excerptation behind the cut! )

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Your Famous Last Words Will Be:

"I dunno, press the button and find out."

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This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels,
1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones
you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started
but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
* 2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
* 3. Dune, Frank Herbert
* 4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
* 13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish
* 16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen
R. Donaldson
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
* 26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,
J.K. Rowling
* 27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Little, Big, John Crowley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
* 45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

A few of these are ones I read a looong time ago. Timescape, for instance. There are also a few I can't remember whether I've read or not -- I've left them alone, because if I can't remember them, I ought to go read or reread them anyway.

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Meme pinched from mrbankies and freakfest and flemco:

Bush has now publicly noted that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

Which makes me wonder one thing that I'd love to hear the president explain.

MR. PRESIDENT, WHY DID WE GO TO IRAQ?

If you would like to have that answer as well, post these words in your blog. We're not gonna get an answer from the head dickcheese himself, but it would be interesting to see how many of you would like to hear that answer. Note: You will probably be bombarded by posts from neo-con right-wing asshats.

Somewhere, a village wants its idiot back.

Meme pinched from drderanged:

Your Inner Child Is Naughty

Like a child, you tend to discount social rules. It's just too much fun to break the rules! You love trouble - and it seems that trouble loves you. And no matter what, you refuse to grow up!

This result is probably a surprise to some. To others... not. Heh.

Meanwhile, over on Novitious, I finally got around to a new post: a review of the movie adaptation of A Scanner Darkly. I'm going to try to post at least one something-or-other on Novitious a week, depending on how determined work is at any given time to be making my head want to do wa-wa explodey things.

I haven't been posting, or even commenting, in a while, which makes me a naughty Gary. Last week was a financially stressful week in general, and one day in specific (thanks to an automotive brake repair job that revealed how bad off my car's rotors and brake pads and brake shoes and brake spitoons were looking). Today things are looking up somewhat. Or maybe I'm just high. It's hard to tell sometimes.

But now, it's meme time! This pinched from mrbankies:

If you ask...

1. I'll respond with something I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you, if I have such a thought.
8. If I do this for you, please post this on your journal so you can do the same for other people.

TrustFlow. Neeeeaaat.

I recognize some of the names from friends posts. I think I might know a couple of the others, though they might not realize who I am. (I'm Gary. If you know me from anywhere, it's probably from Superguy. Hi.)

Not sure when I'll have time, but I will poke around all of you eventually. In a nice way. I won't even have 'The Clapper' hooked up to the electrodes, I promise.

( Mmmmm. TrustFlow. )

Honest. Someday soon I will post something that is not a meme. Rejoice in knowing that day shall come!



Submit your own plea to Cthulhu!

Name some friends or leave them blank and let me look them up myself:

Since I was done tagged by mrbankies a few days ago:

Top 10 things that make you happy right now, and tag five people to do the same. (In no particular order.)

01. My wife, cats, dog, friends, and family.

02. Lost. I haven't raved about it here, because the degree of my craven fanboy capering would make you cringe, but damn, this show is good. (Besides, have you seen a 6'4" man caper? It would haunt your darkest dreams.)

03. The fact that the Lions will be done for the season soon, leaving the Detroit sports scene for the Pistons and the Red Wings.

04. Planet Man!

05. That I finished the first draft of my latest attempt at a novel earlier this year, and will be redrafting and shooting it out to a publisher (and the likely beginning of the ever-beloved Parade of Rejection) by Memorial Day, 2006. (Not quite so tight a schedule as the one demiurgent has set for himself, I know, but these days his Logos Fu is stronger than mine.)

06. That, speaking of novels, I recently discovered another finished first draft of a novel I wrote in, I think, 1997. I mean, sure, one look-through was enough to convince me that I was right to drive a stake through it and bury it at the crossroads at midnight, but on the other hand, how cool is it to find a novel you wrote and then almost forgot for close to a decade? Particularly one that makes you wonder if aliens were slipping hard drugs into your coffee when you weren't looking?

07. Rambling on about my writing. Seriously - ask me what's going on in my life lately. Chances are I'll spend a paragraph or two on family, friends, pets, recent events, and my recent discovery of a grand unified theory of physics, and then go on for about five or six pages about what I'm writing, what I'm thinking about writing, why I haven't been writing, and how much I'd write if only the stars and planets were to align just so in the coming year. I'm almost certain this is why nobody asks how I'm doing anymore.

08. That my intense sexual magnetism has somehow not yet erased my computer's hard drive.

09. Webcomics -- Narbonic, Gossamer Commons, and Alien Loves Predator most of all.

10. LJ Memes. But you knew that.

And so, zephyr-like, I tag: demiurgent, ashears, frobozz, shaenon, and evilbeej!