schemingreader

Howdy!

I pushed myself hard to finish a work project and now I'm kind of stalled out at my desk, waiting for feedback from other people. I'm sure there are profitable uses for my time--I've come up with a few--but since I can't think of any at this moment, how about some fun links?

I love this blog entry. I don't live on the left coast, I'm only wimpily vegetarian and not vegan, and I must admit that I don't listen to much punk, anymore. (And when I did it was mainly on my clock radio in high school--"Holiday in Cambodia" by the DKs, blaring tinnily in my suburban bedroom.) Still I am totally into the image of the radical lefty Jews (all of them younger and hipper than I) celebrating their punk rock and tofu lifestyle. (and going to Millenium! I have their cookbook!) Fits in well with my general feelings about this season of the birth-of-God vs. the-fried-food-and-gambling holidays. As my husband likes to say, Onward Jewish Pacifists. (For those of you not from the US, this is a take-off on the title of a famous hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers.)

Also, I love the comic Cat and Girl. Even though I know I seem earnest and unironic, most of the time, I have a thing for this kind of urban irony. BROOKLYN irony. Heh.

I really loved this merry_smutmas Snarry story, This Boy's Life. There has been so much good fic to rec that it seems a shame to pick just one thing. Most Snarry stories, even some of the stories I myself have written, require just too much suspension of disbelief. They get too any2guys on you. But sometimes you get one that seems--credible. This is one, and it's got that compelling pacing that I'm always striving to achieve in my own writing.

OH YEAH! I forgot to say: this? SO TRUE. Words to live by.

Well, I think I'm going to go bug some people for feedback so I can do more work. Love you! Bye!