the middle and lower thirds are also cool

http://xkcd.com/657/
The coolest thing in the history of ever. I don't know why. It just is. Click on the image for the large version. The chart at the top just about gives me tingles, with the sheer awesome and riverlike/highwaylike web-threads of it all. Dude, I want a print of it I can frame. (Seriously, *tingles*. I think I have a graphical representation kink now.)

Guild got the hardmode/ToGC25 version of Jaraxxus down, yay for us. And finally did the Wrathgate cinematic with Sas, so have finally seen the Alliance version of the retaking of the Undercity. Have only hoped to see that since like this time last year, just about. The character of Varian Wrynn is still a prick. And the cinematic itself still makes me cry my eyes out like a schoolgirl.

Got very belated bday money from the inlaws. Trying to tell myself not to blow it all on amz mp3s or some of the poetry books I've been wanting. Wanty want want. Speaking of music, someone very awesome shared some Arcade Fire (Funeral and Neon Bible), and I am digging it very much thus far. Will have to finish NB tomorrow. Today. Something.

thank deities this one's not about me (Anj! Anj!)

Oh geez, I almost forgot, which would have been horrible. Some time back, gallo_de_pelea shared a link for a website/zine which was accepting submissions for LGBTQ-themed SF/speculative fiction. I passed the link along to my friend Anj--

And now for the first time, she's published \o/ \o/ The issue came out 11-1, and is purchasable here:
http://crossedgenres.com/store/issues/012/

or can be just read here:
http://crossedgenres.com/archives/012/stay-by-angela-kroeger/

I'm so goddamned proud of her. ^________^ She works so freaking hard at her writing, and works so much at it--it's just awesome to see something happen with it. It's a wonderful first step for her. And I so hope it's given her the 'try and get published' bug, because I know it'll happen again for her. ♥

11-3

drought

My head's a canyon, desert dry,
thoughts collapsed like dead animals
along the hard-packed, cracked earth banks
where imagination once flowed.


(dvad 11-3-09)