Getting over the Hump....

[lagilman]

I have 3 different stories (2 novels & the Kickstarter novella) running around in my head. This may be why I'm awake at 4am. If I wasn't so psyched about all three projects, I'd be seriously pissed.  

But I woke to find that USAn voters have said "unions are good, giving fertilized eggs more rights than women is bad." We passed the sanity test.  This time.

The past two days have been a series of intense (and enjoyable) social and work-related interactions.  My introvert batteries are DEAD. I need to hole up in the meerkat-cave & regenerate....  and write.  write write write write.  And edit.  And.... laundry.  And shit, more interactions coming up.  Ack.

Meanwhile, there's still a few days left for folks in North America and GB to enter the Goodreads giveaway for TRICKS OF THE TRADE! 
(Over on Google+ I've gotten grumpy comments for it not being open to Australia/NZ - sorry guys, but I have to cover the shipping costs, and my budget just can't handle it.)

Comments

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

I was sure hoping Issue 2 would go down to defeat over here in Ohio, but you never know who will show up at the polls. There were a lot of places in SW Ohio where it had overwhelming support --typically in places where you'd find the management living, I cynically told my wife-- but Issue 2 got a lot of traditional blue collar Republican support as well. However, that was mainly due to the Governor throwing in police officers and fire fighters into the mix, and the law-and-order crowd didn't take too kindly to that. Our local state senator, himself a Republican, came on the pro-union side and campaigned for defeat of Issue 2. This wasn't that great a surprise, given that his opposition to the original bill caused the Republican machine to marginalize him up at the statehouse.

The governor's office is already talking about reintroducing the bill over the winter with a few tweaks, which makes me wonder if they really want to shoot themselves in the foot once more.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Oh, and in another bit of good news, Chris Seelbach became the first openly gay member of Cincinnati's City Council. (A quick Google search will pull up his website.)

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

Speaking of electoral sanity and related happiness ... where I am over 2/3 of the voters chose to raise property taxes to fund the library system. I am so glad.

Goodreads is choking on me and refusing to load any pages, but maybe I can enter later.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Can I move where you are now?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I share your relief over the sanity test. But, you know, either all the Americans I've met are exceptions, or your lunatic fringe is just very noisy. Because, you know, I've never met one of these bonkers ones who apparently support these initiatives, and I've met several hundred who don't.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Our lunatic fringe is very, very loud. But by dint of your career, you're also hanging with the left-leaning liberal feminists, for the most part.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

There's more than you think out there, it's all a matter of knowing where to look. Where I live in SW Ohio, they are the majority. In fact, I don't think there's been a local politician who would be considered a political liberal since Jerry Springer decided to get into television news. (Yes, that Jerry Springer. Lo, how the mighty have fallen.) Nationally speaking, I'm a political moderate, but down here I'd be painted as a pinko Commie if I tried to run for office.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Right. Not that there are actually few of them, but they *are* very loud. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I told an audience at World Fantasy that I was a pinko-liberal-feminist-pro-Lbaour-union-socialist Briton and got a cheer!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That may be true. But I've met film fans too, and they seemed fairly sane. (I did meet a nut case in a small hotel, but every country has its nut cases.)

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

In my cynical-morning moment, I'd like to point out that both sanity checks were passed by a fairly tight margin.

But yeah, at least they passed.

*tries to not re-imagine the political theatre as a Call of Cthulhu campaign*

(whaddayamean my spell-check doesn't recognize "Cthulhu"?)

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Issue 2 in Ohio (the one where a 'no' vote would repeal the anti-union law) was rejected by 61/39, a fairly wide margin.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

To me that means that only 12% of the voters would have had to be swayed for it to go the other way. I don't see that as that wide a margin, but maybe I'm being overly demanding. (it was 60/40 in MS, pretty much the same margin)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

There *is* a Lovecraft inspired board-game called 'Cults Across America'...