The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by ElizabethVomMarlowe:

The thing I like best about the Buffy-verse is the way it often takes the whole community to save the world. Including book geeks and donut runners. I see this in Firefly too.

I cannot resist posting this link.

Virgin Mary. In grilled cheese sandwich. On Ebay. Thousands of dollars.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19270&item=5535890757&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Hope you all enjoy.

I've made some small individual donations to civilian causes in Iraq--mostly school supplies. They were calls by individuals in the military. I don't know of a group organization doing straight civilian work there.

Best I could come up with is the international branch of the Red Cross. If they are getting into the prisons, they're able to do something. Here's their site: http://www.icrc.org/eng

I was going to do more looking, but my internet has gone sloooooooow.

Somehow I'd like to tie the name in with that dumb Left Behind series, but my brain is failing me.

Rose-thankyouthankyouthankyou.

I surely do need that shirt.

Went poking around the Secretary of State in Ohio site. It's all in county lumps. No way to separate out the precincts. I know very little about Ohio geography, so I did some comparison checking with our own results (little local things) here in KC Missouri. There's state results for everything in a searchable database. There's also a separate (not linked) county site and city site with results available, but not by precint either.

I wonder if you have to be an election official to get precinct results. Anyone know?

I vote some stars and stripes, but also large plain clear lettering. I prefer not to have people peer at my chest.

And can we have the translation on it somewhere?

Could you do the flag on the pocket? The lettering under a flying flag if it's the center?

I would also dearly love a Republicans for Voldemort T-shirt, if you're taking new requests.

All I can say is that today I'm grieving and tomorrow I'm finding a new way to fight. I'm not giving up my America, and you shouldn't either.

Okay, I have to share this.

It's "Goodle"--good news.
http://www.hallmundur.com/goodle/goodle.htm?q=&planet=Search+The+Web

After I'm done playing Xander for the polling place MoveOn thing (i.e., getting donuts) tomorrow, I'm going to drink Guinness and reread A Civil Campaign. I refuse to read the news until 10 pm tomorrow night.

James, that's my bet too.

Does everybody like my shiny new hat? It is ever so pretty. I've gotta get me some matching tinfoil shoes.

I think Rove would have laid the ground for OBL if he had him. That he doesn't seem to be laying any ground is making me awfully twitchy. Sure, Sinclair, but that's pocket change for Rove.

I also think Bush has something going on medically. Skipping his physical, the funny mouth downturn and spittle in debate 3, lagging, lots of eye twitches, lots more difficulting speaking. Booze? Stroke? I dunno.

Not my time period, but if it's pisteuomen then it's the plural form (we believe). The reasons for the plural isn't my field.

Teresa, I can't believe you haven't learned Greek. It's the only language with a middle voice. Very cool.

Thanks for the suggestions on the bookish valium! I've been rereading Beauty---sooo good. I'm thinking of rereading Sunshine, too, for the muffin bits. The Stevermers are hard to find--gonna have to get it through Amazon. Bought a bunch of others at the UBS. Feeling much better after a nice book fix.

CHip--is Merchanter's Luck the one where the ship talks to Sandy? I quite liked that one.

I'm gonna pull a Randall P. here and ask for some book recommendations. I have been tense and neurotic due to current events. I need bookish valium.

So...

Really good comfort reads, funny reads? Old favorites? Adult versions of Harry Potter?

Sent my letter. But I also just read this Washington Post article (p.2). Sounds like it's legal for the CIA to do that right now. I know B&Co. have been doing it, but I thought it was illegal. I feel ill.

FranW, I know one, too. Among other things, she told me she'd refuse anything less than a 500K advance. She drew and painted her own cover. Then, before sending off her manuscript even once, decided to do the self publishing route with a distribution in her local gaming shop. Because it would make more money than traditional publishing. I talked her out of it (and iUniverse, PublishAmerica, etc). Wish I could send her here, but I don't think she'd read any of this. Too...I don't know if I can explain it. Desperate to believe in the fantasy of publishing. Anyone have a suggestion about dealing w/ that sort of thing? Facts don't seem to be working.

Sorry for the double post. Editing gone awry.

Michelle: I think the excerpt will explain a lot, both in terms of why AR reacted as she did and why the readers reacted the way they did.

I urge you to read it and see. I don't think not reading Memnoch will stop you from being able to judge it at all--it's not really about narrative voice change per se.

Well, Melissa, I think the excerpt will explain a lot, both in terms of why AR reacted as she did and why the readers reacted the way they did.

I urge you to read it and see. I don't think not reading Memnoch will stop you from being able to judge it at all--it's not really about narrative voice change per se.

Michelle,

Did you read the excerpt? She (or at least her narrator) truly does lambast his/her readers for not loving the last book. The excerpt can be read on Amazon.

It's the bit where the narrator says that he gave readers this "vision of Creation and Eternity" and then the readers ---but I'll let you read it for yourself. (page 5)

I'd say the author herself set up a context for this book to be slammed. Personally, I wish she had allowed an editor to respond, because I think it would have saved her a lot of personal grief.

Michelle,

Reading the excerpt of Blood Canticle made me wince. Not sure whether that's the emotions of the author or her character, but the rant about how nobody got the last book is very creepy as is the bit about not being able to breathe without the reader.

I took some of it to be a pretty direct challenge/insult to the reader. So I'm not surprised at the very angry reviews.

I had to stop reading the excerpt--too painful.

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