Syzygy.

From next week's release, the first few pages of the ongoing Doctor Who... Because I love you.

“It won’t hurt,” the boy said to the girl.
“I don’t know, Bernie,” the girl replied. She had pink skin and blue eyes and red lips and, although she was exhausted from all the running, she was still very muc...

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Is now up - and Chris's computer is all fixed and happy again, woohoo!

is now up!

two weeks until comic con. I'll be at booth 1230 with Aeire, Jenny, Randy, James and Mel. should be a riot in a 10x10 enclosed space.

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I just spent much longer than I care to tell you googling to find regulations on household plumbing to see if its possible for toilet water to come out my shower when the pipes get blocked. Cause even though the plumber was here today, I just took a shower and ... it wasn't draining so good.

For the life of me, I can't find anything that says that's impossible, and trying to go through how *I* think pipes work, I don't see how it's impossible either, depending on where the blockage is.

You'd have to think it would be bad practice.

And that I'm having a stressful week and now it's starting to show round the edges.

We are only a week away from the Bristol Beer & Blake's 7 meet, so come and join us for a Saturday afternoon in Bristol drinking and chatting about Blake's 7, other SF stuff or anything that takes our fancy. All welcome.

When: Saturday, 18 July, 12:15 PM

Where: The Knight's Templar, Unit 1 Temple Square, Temple Quay, Bristol, Avon, BS1 6DG.

To get to the pub from the (railway) station, you walk straight through
the ticket gates and foyer, ignoring the main exit to your left, and out
into the covered car park. Go straight through the car park and out, and
you'll be on the path leading to Temple square. As you arrive in the
square, the pub is the large glass-fronted building on your left.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/10/10235/Knights_Templar/Bristol

Here's how to get to the pub from the station
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This event also has a Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102834416944

The event goes from approx 12.20 to 7pm, though some of us may stay longer.

If this is your first time and you don't know any of us, let us know what you look like and roughly when you'll be arriving so we can look out for you.

Happy birthday, animedude!

Today, I finished reading a graphic novel based on a novel series that I loved, way back when. This collection is called Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and it's a good rendition of some of the tales that Leiber wrote about these rogues. Worth a look, either in the collections, or the graphic novel.

Then there was the comics. First was Warren Ellis' book, No Hero #6, which has taken a very curious twist. Gotta keep reading this one.

Then, Drafted went a very odd way, using Obama as a character in a one-shot, called One Hundred Days. Weird. I'm not sure how I felt about this one.

Finally, there's a new book out, which is definitely a Chthulhu mythos piece, called North 40. Creepy, weird, something I could see Lovecraft getting into. For my friends who like these things, I'd hunt this one down.

Finally, while waiting to hear from my beloved, I pulled out a Netflix that's been hanging fire here for a long time; it's a Hitchcock film that I'd never seen called Rear Window, and I loved the camera work in it. Very interesting piece, nicely done. Makes me want to hunt out other Hitchcock films that I've not seen before.

Hello,
If at all possible I would like to find a roomshare in one of the host hotels.   Hilton is preferred but, any of the four will work.     I'm polite and easy to get along with.    I can exchange cash for room key on arrival.   Any extra space on the floor would work just fine.

I would like to attend thursday-monday however friday-monday would be okay too.

Please send me an e-mail if you have any roomshares avaliable fitting my criteria.   I'm very dependable and the money is already sitting in my bank account.
endoluft@gmail.com

Thanks!

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Work-safe.

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/jensaltmann/fail/series.php

Things I read: a couple of them the other day, that I thought were important. mincot, speaking of the hoopla surrounding Michael Jackson’s funeral and memorial, said, ” It’s like watching the medieval popular veneration of a saint.”

I’m reading Melissa Anelli’s history of Harry Potter as phenomenon, and she mentions that after J.K. Rowling said, in response to an audience question, that she’d always thought of Dumbledore as day, one man came out that very night, right there in Carnegie Hall.

The message I take from these two things together, is tht humans are desperate to find someone to identify with and look up to. (Even if you’re a fictional character, which I suspect is as true of the public persona Jackson’s fans idolize as it is of Albus Dumbledore.) So be brave and speak your truth because you don’t know when that might be you. And you might really change someone’s life.

Things I saw: one yesterday, on my commute home, that I thought was awful. A woman was riding a scooter with two kinds, twin boys maybe 6 or younger, one in front of her and one behind. That’s not the horrible thing. Seeing kids on scooters isn’t that rare here, and while it may not be ideal, people transport their family as they can and I’m not going to presume to criticize. (Also, crazy as the driving seems here, I actually see *fewer* accidents here than on American roads.) The part I thought was horrible was that the woman was wearing a helmet and the kids weren’t. Nice priorities, lady.

Things I want to do: go home.

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This week's Poetry Friday entry are the terrific poems from yesterday photopoetry of 15 words or less. Here was the picture:



And here are the poems!



Watch your step
you never know where they go
way down
into depths of despair
-- Anne McKenna

Watch Your Back
Planks remain bare

Poisonous vines
don't tread visible paths

They climb directly
into your heart

--Laura Purdie Salas

Conquering
Breath catching
Heart palpitating,
searching depths
Mastering fear,
Take a step!
been afraid too long

-- melissa

 

I'm so glad
I'm not Jimmy Stewart
In that movie
VERTIGO
Instead,
Here I go!

-- slatts

 

The view--spectacular!
But now....

Spinning, spiraling....

Where's Jimmy Stewart
when you need him?

-- Kathy Q.
wordsrmylife

 

Round
and round
redwood tight-gripped
I wish
life
had so graceful
a bannister.

-- sartorias
 

Wasn't sure
where I was headed.
Pick a card,any card.
Life's a gamble.

--  Martha Calderaro

Round and round
One step down.
Round and round
Two steps down.
All around. Ground.
-- Louise Henriksen

July 9 Post - 15 word poem
Cycles, circles go around,
Until the way of dusty death and ground.

-- G Grenley

Each day
fans out
from Summer
separate
but connected
in their uniformity
of season.

-- Diane M. Davis

Steps too narrow.
Feet too long.
Thanks--
I think I'll stay
up here.

-- Cynthia Cotten

 

Board

Board, so bored,
with the same steps.
Time to stop looking back and go up.

-- Sue Douglass Fliess

 

The Board Monster
Board monster's here.
Couldn't nail him down.
It spins wooden paddles
spanking kids in town.

-- Joyce Lansky

Here I stand at the top of the stairs
Wondering which way to go.

-- Barbara Van Deusen



Jama has the round-up of all the Poetry Friday posts today!