Brain VS Paper

[xyzzysqrl]

Okay. To start, people have been making sounds about how I should give them some idea of what I want from them for Christmas.

For the most part, I don't. I've got some gift money from the parents coming and I was just going to cover my own gift needs, get something for the boyfriend, and call it a day. On the other hand, there seems to be this irrational need to give stuff to me, which kinda makes me twitch sometimes. Still, if you want it, Amazon now has my updated wishlist which I'll probably be shopping from myself as time goes by. I cleaned out the old stuff I already picked up, put new stuff on it, and there we go.

I should also get to renewing the paid LJ account and maybe picking up the Strong Bad Email DVD.

Anyway.

I'm currently sitting here trying to work out what, if anything, I should be talking about. I don't feel like I've spend much time on genuine connection with people online over the last few months, and that kinda saddens me, but... Eh. I haven't felt terribly intriguing over the last few months, and generally people expect me to talk at least a little.

Also rubbing my brain violently up and down against these reviews I've been meaning to write, as well as idly musing over the idea of picking up the Legaia 2 Playthrough again.

Just to keep you folk up to date on what I'm doing.

Think I'm going to check the mail now. Uh.

How are you all, incidentally?

Comments

[rancourt.livejournal.com]

*smiles tiredly* Pretty well, postmortem fandom analyses aside. Proud of Stacie for NaNoWriMo. Enjoying diving deeper into Zappa's back catalogue. Hoping your two friends will indeed shoot me a reply one of these days.

It's okay to be quiet and out of it. We still love you.

Hang in there.

[xyzzysqrl]

Right. Must get around to writing back.

I'm also admiring of her for succeeding National Silly Acronym Month. My own attempt went absolutely haywire and broke my brain last year. It's good to see she has the ability to stick to that.

I've never dabbled much in Zappa. What I've heard... hasn't excited me. Probably it would if I stopped and really listened, but that'll likely have to come later.

Keep writing those essays. They sure seem to be garnering support! I'm... well, I'm not so big on them, but they're clearly getting through to others, and that's a good thing.

[rancourt.livejournal.com]

I'm also admiring of her for succeeding National Silly Acronym Month. My own attempt went absolutely haywire and broke my brain last year. It's good to see she has the ability to stick to that.

Please do. She was quite insulted by janglur's continued bad form and weird passive-aggressive antics, and is feeling a bit belittled and trivialized.

I've never dabbled much in Zappa. What I've heard... hasn't excited me. Probably it would if I stopped and really listened, but that'll likely have to come later.

Can I ask what you've heard? The problem with Zappa is that his career spans so many genres, and yet, most people remember him only for a few Top 40 comedy/satire recordings. Most people have never heard his legendary freeform prog-rock guitar solos, or his classical pieces, or his more experimental works...or even his *good* Top 40-style tunes.

Keep writing those essays. They sure seem to be garnering support! I'm... well, I'm not so big on them, but they're clearly getting through to others, and that's a good thing.

That's the single most considerate way of putting that sentiment I've received yet. Thank you!

And again, they're not a "fair cross-section" of furry fandom -- they're simply a decompile and core dump of some of its bigger problems. And sadly, it's very easy to misinterpret my "furry is simply about furries, do not equate fetish with furry" as "fetishes BAD!" or at least "fetishists should be treated like second-class citizens and hide their kinks in shame."

The message is deceptively simple. I'm not saying that people of any practice or fetish are more or less "okay" than others. (Essay four really hammers this home.) I'm saying that people need to be uniformly courteous and mindful of how to act in the company of others, and to realize that not everyone in 'furry' supports the GSF model of intervalidation.

But this isn't the forum to talk about this. This is your journal. The whole point of this was to reach out to you. *hug*

[kandra.livejournal.com]

Quite good, thanks for asking. I should go to bed though. I've been up playing Pirates! way too much. :)

[xyzzysqrl]

I've been considering picking up the DVD edition of that.

For a friend, mind you.

So it's really good? I... don't know much about it now that I think of it.

[swordianmaster.livejournal.com]

Cheesy and nutritious. Also, Paper Mario.

Chuuuuuu.