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  • Just another trip home

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    I’ve gotta stop looking at homeless people. The other evening I got caught up in gazing at a homeless guy with a long, pointed face and thick, dark dreadlocked hair all sticking out over his head, like Medusa’s sleeping snakes. He had olive skin and a bedraggled beard, and he was rugged up in a…

  • This & this

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    It’s been brought to my attention (hiya Ellen!) that if you’re using the Back & Next buttons to read posts on this blog, you will occasionally be told the upcoming post is protected & therefore unavailable until you log into LJ. Which, obviously, not everyone in the world can do. I just wanted to assure…

  • Where my thoughts are

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    Via nihilistic_kid, this excellent comment by Jordan Flaherty of Left Turn (for anyone who’s missed it). Via lafinjack, US govt to hire 3 luxury cruisers from a company called Carnival as temporary accommodation for homeless for a period of six months. I guess there’s a logic to it: when the world becomes a floating world,…

  • Except my name isn’t Herb

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    gapingvoidtest‘s cartoon here. (And every time I read the name of that feed, naturally I want to say, ‘the test is working, guys’…)

  • Where to?

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    If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else. — Alfred Adler (1870-1937), Austrian psychiatrist

  • Protected: What Classic Dame

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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • Protected: What kind of disease

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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • State of change

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    “It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.” — Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman http://www.quoteworld.org/ Updates on the state of things can be found at: girliejones‘s blog: I guess though I’d be really interested in what people in the scene think…

  • If you’re not part of the solution …

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    Shane Jiraiya Cummings has some energetic solutions over at his blog (where lj feed? I can’t cope with no lj feed!): The solution to all this debate is to act. And more action from benpayne: That said, I’m not intending to copy those magazines, nor am I looking for material which is derivative of their…

  • No things left unsaid

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    Over at the discussion on editing, girliejones said: Our site is a good step but I wonder if we are properly reviewing the editing? In some places we are. But in what cases is a bad story the fault of the editor and not the writer? Prompting a thoughtful response from newish lj holder, Tansy…