Recent links of interest:

"Michael Berg: Al-Zarqawi's death is no cause for rejoicing". Given how disgusted I was with some of the blog entries and comments that followed the death of al-Zarqawi, I thought this article was somewhat encouraging.

"Beyonce Gets Served on Fur". Even if you don't agree with PETA's stance on various issues, you should sign up for the mailing list just for hilarious article links like this. PETA is wacky.

"Reason behind fatal shooting elusive". I disagree -- it's not all that elusive if you've actually seen X-Men: The Last Stand. Or if you read the article, which for some inexplicable reason goes on about neighbors of the gunman being agitated by the family's initial lack of curtains or window shades. Shit, I'd be homicidal too if I lived on a street with people who gave a crap about being able to see an ironing board through my front window. And I think this is the first article I've ever read that describes the victim of a shooting as having been "lightning fast." He apparently wasn't faster than a speeding bullet, though. 🙁

"crabs". He's got a mouth full of crabs.

Ja.

So admittedly I haven't been working on the memoir as much lately as I'd like. "Work" has picked up a bit, and then I've kind of been sidetracked with watching a lot of downloaded foreign TV shows and DVD purchases and whatnot, so yeah. The air conditioning is also out, so I feel kind of hot and icky and don't really want to do anything, and I opened a window, which helps with the stuffiness, but things are still pretty muggy in here. The chirping birds are getting on my fucking nerves and last night people in the neighborhood were outside yelling at each other at 2 AM. I haven't been sleeping well. YAY EXCUSES!

Anyway, here's an excerpt from the memoir (if you need to, click the image below to see the large print version):

So in addition to hopefully working on the memoir a bit this weekend and getting another SC article up, I'm thinking I want to write another short story. Nothing for submission to magazines or anything -- fairly convinced that avenue is a waste of time; nobody wants to pay for my stuff -- but I might post it here or on SC if I ever get around to it. But right now I'm so hot that I just want to take a cold shower in lieu of going swimming because I do not have access to a pool. But I wish I had a bottle of chlorine so I could breathe in the fumes and pretend I'm in the wave pool at Wild World.

Excerpt from an IRC convo about anime:

<Kyusaku> the lead voice actress actually had to go on maternity leave around the last 13 eps
<Kyusaku> and her replacement kinda sucked
<Wesper> whatever she could totally have done her part from the hospital
<Kyusaku> seriously
<Wesper> just have lots of scenes with her opening heavy doors

And that's all for now. Ja ne!

ph33r!

And here are the colorless pencils, which is the pic's original form:

First pencil drawing I've done in ages. Maybe since '01. Yikes.

For those of you unfamiliar with THE CAT WITH HANDS (for shame!), go watch the freaky video.

Previous cats with hands can be found here and here. Fun. Ja!

Have you ever had a dialogue, experience -- et cetera -- that left you wholly convinced that you are not long for this world: and that this is not such a bad thing, because there is not and never will be any place where you will ever be welcome, that you never have and never will belong among any lands or people anywhere in this life?

I believe the entirety of my time here has been comprised of such incidents.

And for those of you who've been missing your Scary-Crayon fix, do feel free to pop over and check out yesterday's Father's Day tribute to Buraiking Boss. In addition to being an interesting piece (I hope you'll agree!), it gave me an excuse to draw the guy (click the image below for a slightly larger version of the pic). And that's always fun, yes indeedy. 🙂

Recent SC artwork has also included an actual crayon rendition of Billie Piper and a Dalek. Drawing stuff with crayons is kinda messy.

Until next time, minna-san! 😛