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vichickmary @ 01:04 am: About Avatar
( I'll probably spoil the movie in some way (Avatar)... )

megzheartcho @ 11:59 pm: (Don't feel like making a long entry right now so bare with me)

This Christmas was a good one. Lots of food and some good gifts, save for the printer I got not working and needing to exchange tomorrow. Hopefully they'll let me exchange it with a bank print-out instead of a receipt (which my mom can't find). Anyway, here's a run down of my gifts of awesome (minus one lemon printer).

Lucky Brand Black Boots (very rock and roll)

Brutal Legend for the XBox (WOOO!)

Super Mario Bros. Wii

A black XBox 360 controller

An Xbox 360 Play and Charger

A Dollhouse black coat

2 nice shirts

Some gift cards and money

3 game design/theory books (these are awesome.... to me at least):

-Gamer Theory
-Persuasive Games
-First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game

All-in-all it was a nice Christmas. Hopefully things go well at Best Buy tomorrow and it'll be a great Christmas. :3

Current Mood: tired

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vichickmary @ 06:14 pm: Merry Christmas!!
Hope your Christmas day is going well. I didn't get many presents, but I'm okay with that.

Yesterday, my distant family on my Dad's side came to visit. Pretty fun times.

Here's a Christmas picture:

http://angelvi.deviantart.com/art/Winter-Kiss-148009341

Merry Christmas!!

renkokitomi @ 12:52 pm: I admit my last rant was a bit spiteful, but my "bah humbug" still stands.

hyp32 @ 07:14 am:

spid3rman @ 06:02 am: ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

meganubunny @ 01:53 am: Wow. That game's ending was incredible.

Good show Persona 4. Good show.

grrm @ 06:01 pm: Merry Christmas
Here's hoping all my friends and readers have a merry Christmas.

And you other people too.

omegaultima @ 08:37 am: Merry Christmas all!

gear_halo @ 07:46 am: Overheard at work

"Hello? Yes. What am I doing? Wh- I'M DOING NCO STUFF BITCH."

"I heard about this guy in Iowa who died in his sleep and by the time his family went to his house to see why they hadn't heard anything from him, his two pugs ate him. Picked his bones clean."

Tags: via ljapp

comradeiota @ 01:25 am: Oi! To The World
( A Yuletide Whatever )

Tags: art, life

bubblegummath @ 11:47 pm: Where the wild things aren't
:< Not at my house.

It's boring there, so I came back here for a while. If anyone wants to hang out, drop me line.

grrm @ 05:55 pm: Odds and Ends
SUICIDE KINGS is out in hardcover (see below) and BUSTED FLUSH has been released in mass market. Meanwhile, I've delivered the additional content -- three new stories -- for the first volume of this storied series, WILD CARDS itself, which Tor will be reissuing later in the year. Since the first volume was historical in nature, telling the story of the wild card from 1946 to 1985, adding some original material to cover some of the "lost years" seemed like a natural.

The three new tales:
-- "Captain Cathode and the Secret Ace," by Michael Cassutt,
-- "Powers," by David D. Levine,
-- "Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan," by Carrie Vaughn.

No publication date yet. You'll know when I do.

As for FORT FREAK, the twenty-first volume in the series that WILD CARDS began, first drafts are all in, I've given the usual editorial note, and the writers are all off revising. This one looks to be a lot of fun. The Class of 2009 is doing some great work, and the old-timers ain't half bad either.

On other fronts, Gardner Dozois and I are very close to delivering our original cross-genre anthology STAR-CROSSED LOVERS, to Pocket Books. We're waiting for some minor revisions from one writer. Once those are in hand, the book will be delivered. Only it's not STAR-CROSSED LOVERS any longer. Pocket's sales force did not like that title, so the anthology has now been rechristened SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH. Got a great line up of writers for that one, including Diana Gabaldon, Jim Butcher, M.L.N. Hanover, Peter S. Beagle, Marjorie Liu, Jacqueline Carey, Carrie Vaughn, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, and many more.

Everybody's talking about AVATAR, which I haven't seen yet... but I have been going to movies. While the crowds queue up for Cameron, I've been catching up on some of the other films now in release. I enjoyed THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, and liked INVICTUS as well, but the one that really impressed me was ME AND ORSON WELLES. The guy who plays Welles should get an Oscar nomination for that performance.

As usual, I am way behind on my Xmas shopping.

Where does the time go?

grrm @ 05:01 pm: Now On Sale
Today was the official publication day for the latest Wild Cards book, SUICIDE KINGS.

Run, don't walk, to your favorite bookstore and getcha copy now. And hell, while you're there, get copies for all your friends as well. All you Xmas shopping in one swell foop.




Tags: wild cards

grrm @ 11:42 pm: Giants Crush
Well, that was fun. If only every game was like this...

(Maybe it is, if you're a Colts fan).

These were the Giants I remember. The swarming aggressive D, the sacks, the knockdowns, the hurries, the interceptions, runners tackled at the line of scrimmage. And on offense, long time-consuming drives ending in touchdowns. Eli looked terrific, spreading the ball around. Nicks, Smith, Manningham, and Boss all had big catches, and even Derek Hagan scored a touchdown. The running game was back, especially when Ahmad Bradshaw had the ball. The O line opened gaping holes, and the D line was so relentless that our wafer-thin secondary was never threatened.

Yeah, these were the real G-Men.

I have no idea who those clowns in the Redskins uniforms were.

That fake field goal the Skins tried at the end of the first half had to be one of the most bizarre plays I've ever seen. Watching Steve Young talk about it in the postgame was hilarious.

I do feel sorry for Jim Zorn, whose postgame press conference was... well, obviously, no one ever taught the guy Coachspeak. Poor guy is not long for D.C.

But it was a great win.

Now we need two more like it, coupled with a Cowboys loss.

(Or a Packers loss, maybe... but while I know the G-Men have the tiebreaker over Dallas, no one has ever mentioned who wins a tie between New York and Green Bay).

Next week, the Panthers. Who beat the Vikings yesterday. Let's hope the real G-Men show up.

Tags: nfl

thecapedcaper @ 12:04 am: Welp, I decided on doing the entire P90X program.

Oh God.

I decided on this at work, since one of my coworkers started on it a few weeks ago with good results. As mentioned in earlier posts, I have done some of the workouts and they full-heartedly kicked my sorry ass. Today, I did the Chest/Back work out with Ab Ripper X, the first time I actually completed the standard two videos in a day thing. So I figured, "hey, maybe I could do the program on New Years"

Then I thought, "Why don't I just do it now because the Chest/Back video is the first day of the program?"

So here I am. I will be waking up at 6:30 to do the Plyometrics video before I go to work. Just like I was telling Jackie, I'd be doing them early in the morning so that I'm not physically/mentally exhausted from when I come back from work. Of course, this will be absurd if I work 7 AM shifts, for those days I'm just going to have to suck it up and do it after work.

I weighed myself today, and I was 220. That's why I need to start going at it before I balloon to 225 or 230, and then this whole year's worth of hard work will have been for naught. That's right, if I continued at this pace I will have netted no weight change for the entire year, which is not what I set out to do.

I'm thinking of doing a montage video set to Push it to the Limit. For lulz.

renkokitomi @ 02:55 pm: Twits of the day

08:56 Reading my friends' tweets and replacing key words with @bladeshot = comedy gold #

grrm @ 06:04 pm: Jets Crash
Life is meaningless and full of pain.

I saw this one coming. Three missed field goals will always come back and bite you in the ass.

Great D, but Mark still has a lot of maturing to do.

With the Colts and the Bengals yet to come, I think we can kiss the playoffs goodbye.

And I'm not feeling good about the Giants game tomorrow either.

Tags: nfl

grrm @ 05:08 pm: Win a Copy of SUICIDE KINGS
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist is doing one of their famous contests, for two Advanced Reading Copies of SUICIDE KINGS signed by all of the contributors.

For details as to how to enter, go to

http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2009/12/win-autographed-advance-reading-copy-of.html

Good luck to all.

gear_halo @ 06:20 pm: Well I'm back from my little field exercise. Fun times. I'll probably talk more about it later.

For now, here's something I got from Eric Blumrich, who I recently reconnected with. It's probably old to some of you, but it's new to me.