This is a simple post about nice things, because nice things are nice, and my last few posts have made even my head hurt.
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\nNice thing #1: I am thoroughly enjoying the John Ralston Saul book, The Collapse of Globalism<\/i>. Reading him is always a pleasure, and this book is a much better piece of communication than previous stuff by him, including magnum-opus Voltaire’s Bastards<\/i>.
\nNice thing #1+1: My brother is letting me live in his apartment while he’s away. So good. And it gives me a chance to watch Buffy season 7, which (believe it or not given my history of indoctrinating people into Buffy appreciation) I’ve never seen before.
\nNice thing #11: I sold an article to the Dominion Post<\/i>. It’s a travel piece on Mexico’s Day of the Dead. (Those of you who subscribe to morgueatlarge will have read a piece on that before – well, this one’s different.)
\nNice thing #11b: I like how I had brief pangs of ‘omigod teh DOMPOST is EVUL did i sell out?!?!1!’ and concluded ‘nope, you’re getting your propaganda into their media’ and then thought ‘you sold a travel article you stupid moose, not everything is a political moment’ and then I remembered Skunk Anansie ‘Yes it’s fucking political, everything’s political’. Anyway, it hasn’t seen print yet, so I shouldn’t be counting chickens. Run free, chickens, run free.
\nNice thing #111: The reveal at the end of Doctor Who series 2’s penultimate episode has been spoiled for me, and it fills me with silly fanboyish glee. Hee hee hee. *sigh*
\nNice thing #—: I have made some progress on Sekret Personal Project A, with a brainstorming gathering last weekend setting off a whole new train of thought on it. (It’s only Sekret because I don’t want to put it under the pressure of observation yet. The whole thing is still ill-formed. But I had some splendid people gather to discuss some key aspects of my ill-formed ideas, which was exhilarating, humbling, and, for me at least, worthwhile.)
\nNice thing #all: People.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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