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Thu 17 Mar 2011

Moony

Posted by PJ under meme, moon
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You were born during a Full moon

– what it says about you –

You’ve spent your life in the middle of things, whether it’s between people who oppose each other, ideas that oppose each other, or places that are very different. You’re very aware of perspectives outside the norm and good at anticipating how different people will see a situation. You value second opinions, because they give you a feeling of balance. You don’t have a single group of friends and the people you spend time with may not have a lot in common with each other.

What phase was the moon at on your birthday? Find out at Spacefem.com

Mostly true except for the bit about friends at the end. I tend to stick to friends like gum on the bottom of their shoes—only much more loyal.

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Tue 8 Mar 2011

Census meme

Posted by PJ under meme, what the living do
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In 2011 I am living in a house in Los Angeles with the roommate.
In 2001 I was living alone in an apartment in Mar Vista (L.A.)
In 1991 I was renting rooms from a married couple in a house in Los Angeles.
In 1881 I was living with two roommates in an apartment in Venice (L.A.).
In 1971 I was living in a ramshackle old house with my parents in Venice (L.A.)
In 1961 I was living in a ramshackle old house with my parents in Venice (L.A.)

This ten year breakdown completely misses the cottage I lived alone in for five years from 1983-1987. It was nice. On the back part of the property with the main house on the front part. Secluded and peaceful. One of my favoritest places I’ve lived, although that apartment in Venice with the roommates was tons of fun. This also misses the brief amount of time I spent living in the nicer home my parents lived in in the late 70s and early 80s. I stayed with them there briefly in the late 70s.

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Mon 17 Jan 2011

My album cover

Posted by PJ under meme, randomness
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This meme which I got from hominysnark:

Go to Wikipedia.org. Select ‘Random Article’. Whatever comes up is the name of your band.
2. Go to quotationspage.com. Select ‘Random Quote’. Choose any quote you like on the page, the last few words of the quote are your album title.
3. Go to flickr.com. Select ‘Explore’. Select ‘Interesting photos from the last 7 days’. The third image is your album cover.
4. Go to any photo editing site or use Photoshop/Gimp/…, and put your mad editing skillz to work.

Confession of slight cheat:
I did use the third picture, but I clicked random three times before I came up with a third picture that didn’t involved somebody’s girlfriend sticking their mug or their a** into the camera. I am SO not going there.

And I did this once before, long time ago. Everything old is new again.

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Tue 21 Dec 2010

Okay, it’s that time of year

Posted by PJ under holidays, meme
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And I’m quite enchanted that my Livejournal interests lists generated this rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem:

On the twelfth day of Christmas, pjthompson sent to me…

Twelve ghosts drumming
Eleven spirits publishing
Ten hauntings a-painting
Nine carnivals writing
Eight pellars a-reading
Seven anglo-saxons a-weaving
Six babylonians a-scrying
Five lo-o-o-os angeles
Four earth mysteries
Three eleusinian mysteries
Two witch trials
…and a neuroscience in an astrology.
Get your own Twelve Days:

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Mon 8 Nov 2010

Influences

Posted by PJ under influences, meme, writers
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The Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who’ve influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag at least fifteen friends, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what authors my friends choose.

(Please, do this if you like..)

These are the first fifteen off the top of my head.  I’m sure I’ve left someone(s) vital out.  Some of these are “for better or worse” (I won’t say which ones); others I no longer read all that much, but they definitely influenced who I am as a writer.  They stay with me forever in that way, even if I don’t read them anymore.

  1. Rosemary Sutcliff
  2. Carlos Casteneda
  3. Mary Stewart
  4. Charlaine Harris
  5. W. B. Yeats
  6. Carl Sandburg
  7. Kage Baker
  8. Andre Norton
  9. Anne Rice
  10. Peter Beagle
  11. Karl Shapiro
  12. Edna O’Brien
  13. Charles de Lint
  14. Billy Collins
  15. John Fowles

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Tue 13 Jul 2010

Parts is parts

Posted by PJ under meme, scams, venus in transit, writing
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ETA: This is a scam by a crooked “How to get published” con artist. You can read about it here: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012502.html

And I suppose it all depends on what parts of your ms. you choose as a sample. But here are my results: an unnatural mating of Stephen King and James Joyce.

A randomly chosen internalization piece from one of the characters:

SCAM MEME MESSAGE TELLING ME I WROTE LIKE STEPHEN KING.

A randomly chosen piece of description:

SCAM MEME MESSAGE TELLING ME I WROTE LIKE JAMES JOYCE.

A randomly chosen dialogue run:

SCAM MEME MESSAGE TELLING ME I WROTE LIKE STEPHEN KING.

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Fri 18 Jun 2010

My Mary Moon

Posted by PJ under meme, music
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A music meme via Marshall Payne.

1. Reply to this post and I’ll assign you a letter.

2. List 5 songs that start with that letter.

3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

I got the letter M.

I decided to try to do this without consulting any music lists.  You know, relying on my brain.  Ahem.  At least it’s eclectic.

1.  “Mary Had a Little Lamb” – Yeah, okay, it’s stupid, but it’s the first thing that popped into my head, okay???

2.  “My Sharona,” The Knack – Which of course leads to

3.  “My Humps,” The Black-Eyed Peas  – And that leads to

4.  “My Funny Valentine” – Which really is one of my favorite, favorite old songs, but making a concerted effort not to come up with another “My” song, I come up with

5.  “Moon River,” Hank Mancini – Mancini was like brilliant with the melodies, man.

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