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Writing only leads to more writing. (Colette)

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Visitors from 1/30/05:

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It occurred to me that I haven't posted for a while. The reason is because I haven't had anything writerly to say and still don't. But here's a recent pic to brighten your week.

I figured we were due for some Mal photos. Here's one.

The others are here, as usual.

No con report yet, but while you're waiting for that, you can enjoy the latest Mal photos here.

I'm still visiting jersey_lion after the con, and will go home tomorrow, but I thought I'd share this bit. We did actually do something fannish besides dealers' room, art show and art auction, and hall crawl (more about all that in my to-come con report), we went and saw a vid: Mosquito! Which is a Firefly parody and which premiered at last year's DragonCon, apparently and which I didn't know about til now. Why, oh why, had no one told me? If you don't know about it, you can view it here.

More here in the Mal Set.

And my annoyance is for how Billy Wagner blew the game against the Yankees and wasted Pedro Martinez's wonderful, 7 innings of shutout ball. Argh.

Three figures I got on eBay arrived today.


Meanwhile, I am now officially on vacation.

For those of you who don't look at my Mal flickr set...


And now, ta da, this week's spammer names.

• Pulping S. Wifelier


• Tribble Arnina


• Inflow B. Undesirable


• Electrostatic F. Dissati


• Kaila Jerica


• Banging G. Infamy


• Dosage K. Noncoms


• Maritza Peterkin


• Redecorate G. Parable

Hard to pick a fav this time, but a couple (Kaila and Maritza) would make nice character names.

I can't wait til I can get a Daniel Jackson figure. yum

Yes, that's Gen. Jack O'Neill! I haven't seen anyone with a Daniel Jackson yet, or the other Jack figures, but I'm thrilled to have this. I just wish we didn't have to wait til next year for Atlantis figures.

This is how the previous Mal photo should have been done.

Until I have something interesting to say, I thought I'd show off the latest Mal photo.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote. While the voting was a bit close, which usually happens with low voter turnout (My polls seem to top out at 15 no matter how many people have me on their FL, hmmmmm....), Reaver is the clear winner. Here's Mal and Reaver celebrating.

There are a few other new ones in the set, including:

And yes, that's a real meteorite. It's from Canyon Diablo in Arizona and is mostly nickel and cadmium. It was donated to the library.

Mal now has a pet. Ain't he cute? But his name (his tag said: "Bad Boy Astor") won't do, so I'm currently entertaining suggestions. Serenity is the name of Mal's car, so that won't do, either. If you have a suggestion, leave a comment to this post. Thanks. :)

And visit the flickr set for Mal's day in Central Park yesterday.

I've been adding to my Mal flickr set, so if you're interested, be sure to check there. These are the latest photos.

Eclectic group of spammer names have been accumulated.

Pawnie T. Competitively
Maneuver L. Padlocked
Barracudas Q. Understaff
Casper Darbonne
Sunburned P. Wiesel
Rewires E. Grimaced
Repast E. Blackmailers
Ladonna Middleton
Shapliest L. Entrusted
Wouter Such
Phoebe Parsons (the normal one in the bunch)

And I thought I'd share this latest photo from The Adventures of Mal.



BTW, if anyone would like me to make a user pic for them from any of the Mal set of photos, just ask in a comment to this post. :)

I took Mal to work with me. Here's one of the photos.

Dr. Seuss Parody Page. The Star Trek: Next Gen parody is quite entertaining. There's Babylon 5, too, and many more, including tech manuals. I found the link on Cynical-C Blog.

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Create your own Serial Killer Novel

This was fun enough and writing oriented, so figured it was worth mentioning here.

An excerpt:

"Here is a sample of the contents:

THE PRE-WRITING CHECKLIST

KILLER'S PATHETIC BACKGROUND (choose all that apply):

__ skinny and unloved
__ fat and unloved
__ handsome and unloved
__ ugly and unloved
__ other children made fun of his Little Lord Fauntleroy suit, deforming
him for life
__ a woman with big boobs stepped on his foot, deforming him for life
__ cat pissed on his head while in the crib, deforming him for life"

Just remember, it's what you do with these basics that counts. heh