If it's Sunday, where's my bagel?

Last night I tried out Netflix via Wii, and deemed it quite acceptable as a delivery mechanism. Ended up watching the first few episodes of "Kidnapped*" which I'd somehow missed when it was on t.v. Jury's still out -- it's good but not really gripping, so far.

This morning, I slept in until 8. Again, I blame the humidity (which has taken to expressing itself in bursts of water falling out of the air, periodically).

Also, I had a dream that was a complete short story, beginning middle and end. Do I remember the actual details of said dream-story? Of course not. Bah.

Thinks to Do

Write Finish introduction that's due Monday. Or maybe Tuesday
Finish submission reports
Prep for Contest! to run on Wednesday
Update website
Start contemplating DragonCon details.
Try to get some movement going on October signing dates
Start planning trip to Lille


Hrm. Coffee, first.



*not the novel but a short-lived tv series about a wealthy couple's son being taken, and the process of reclaiming him, with FBI and private retrieval agents, etc.

in passing, not so much politics as "dear God(s), teh Stupid they claim in Your Name..."

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of the "Oh Noes Mosque on Sacred Amurican Ground!" hysteria seems to come from people with a vested (or not so vested) interest in NYC -home of those danged liberals - not actually recovering, ever?

Because it seems to me "yay the real estate in the 5-block radius is coming back to finance-generating use!" is a much better response to the news than fear. Especially since I don't recall anyone saying anything similar about Catholic-based organizations around Oklahoma City...


For those coming in late: it's not a mosque, it's a Muslim community center (akin to a YMCA/YMHA), it's not on Ground Zero, it's two blocks away, which in NYC is Actual Distance, and I've yet to find any verified links suggesting the man who is spearheading all of this has ever condoned the attacks or been anything even remotely resembling the actual definition of a terrorist. If you can give me a legitimate source that says otherwise, sing out. But if you link me to Faux News or its ilk, I will scorn your ass into orbit.


[New Yorkers will also point out that the 'sacred ground' has more than its share of "gentlemen's clubs, (aka expensive strip joints)" tacky tourist shops, and the much-beloved-by-New Yorkers lunch trucks -- many of which are Halal trucks owned and operated by Muslims. Nobody seems to think that any of this is an insult to the memory of those who died...