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I've been diligently pondering my BBB fic, and I wasn't going to write ANY GK fic until I had at least 5K more written. But then Off The Map came up on my iPod, and I just... is there any fan of the series who can hear or see these lyrics and not see what they're making me think about?

But I can't make a sound,
You could hear poisonous pins dropping all around like rain.
But I can ride this storm out,
Because I'm like a junkie for your smart mouth.

See I'm so far off the map the sun is shining.
While its raining and I'm draped in silver lining.
And I can row row row my boat back to shore someday.
So are you coming with me?

Anchors away.

I loosen my lips and the truth slips out.
A free ride on a forked tongue
This twine of trust is unspun.
I can start to believe that's what you need from me.
So far from what I want for (from?) you but I lock it down and we'll make due.

Yes? Yes?

( And in conclusion, a screen cap that aids my distraction )

(and vic_ramsey doesn't do anything to discourage me; in fact, she eggs me on)



To: nfick77@gmail.com
From: bcolbert74@usmc.gov
Subj: really?

"Fick is the Kerouac of our time"?

Nate, I realize you got used to taking orders while you were in the Corps, but when I mockingly suggested that you'd become a liberal dick-suck if you went to Harvard, I didn't think you'd take me seriously.

How many times did you suck Ricks' cock, to get a blog post review like that?




To: bcolbert74@usmc.gov
From: nfick77@gmail.com
Subj: Re: really?

No more than necessary.

Jealous?




To: nfick77@gmail.com
From: bcolbert74@usmc.gov
Subj: Re: Re: really?


As long as you keep sucking this Republican's dick, I'll deal with my disappointment.

+ I claimed a prompt for bandomvalentine! At first I was thinking that I'd write a ficlet in a 'verse I've already written in, but I sorta want to write something different. We'll see. I'll probably bug some of you via gmail about it.

+ I signed up for bandombigbang again this year. Hopefully this time I'll actually finish the fic, since the people involved cannot disillusion me via Twitter. Plus, already outlined. Hopefully I'll keep motivated to get it all finished this time instead of letting it peter out into 5000 words of unfinished fic + an outline, like last year's.

+ vic_ramsey and wordsalone are responsible for my new fascination: Generation Kill. It is the most sexist, racist, politically incorrect thing I've ever seen, and it hurts to watch the stupidity sometimes, but I can't look away. I've got three episodes left to watch. Then I maybe might look for some fanfic of the Brad/Nate or Brad/Ray (they are so so married) persuasion.

+ Ugh. Do not corner me in my office and bombard me with demands before I even have my coat off on Monday morning. I usually need the first hour of the day on Monday morning to plan the week's experiments, and if you bug me, I'm pretty much guaranteed to be as unhelpful as possible. Wait an hour and you're infinitely more likely to find me amenable to your demands.

+ OMG, I *hurt* from laughing at this: Nissan Pavilion has been renamed Jiffy Lube Live. If there is a god, Gabe Saporta (and other bandom folks) will perform there this year and make ridiculous fandom-related jokes about the venue's name.

No, it's more not!fic. I'm unlikely to ever turn this into a complete fic, so.

Here, have some famous actor!Brendon and fan!Spencer. Unbeta'd. Txt-fic for why_me_why_not, shutyourface, and vic_ramsey.

( ~2900 words, guys. IDEK. )

+ I would like Chris Kane to do a show in my vicinity on a night that I do not already have music-related plans (that include three bands with the worse bad hair/bed-head ever).

+ Artist Arena still has not sent my tickets for the Cobra Starship gig. I'll give them a call on Monday to see what's up. Various posts suggest that the M&G/EE organization for this tour will fall on the side of the Dre/FOB/BND side of faily rather than the Zack-is-awesome-why-can't-he-run-all-M&Gs side of things.

+ Iowa v. Wisconsin today. There is a fair amount of trash-talk passing between our house and my in-laws' (in Iowa).

+ Why didn't I stay in San Diego an extra day and catch the AP Fall Ball there last night?

+ M'kay. Most of my traveling and stress-related stuff is done for the month, so I should get back to writing something.

+ It's vic_ramsey's fault that I have to go find a copy of Top Gun. JSYK.

+ Dear BUrie, you cannot grow a decent beard. Please stop trying. Leave that to your boyfriend drummer.

+ Finished the biography of Washington and read The Heretic's Daughter during my travels. Eh. IDK, I was really interested in THD, since it's a first-person narrative about the Salem witch trials as told by Martha Carrier's daughter. It was engaging until the end, which I felt was a let-down. Clearly, we all know how that story ended, and I wasn't expecting anything new or different about that. But the author hinted at something that ended up puffing up and dissolving like smoke, and the ending left me unsatisfied.



+ Matinee of Where The Wild Things Are tomorrow, Houston ppl? It's at the Alamo at 12:25 pm, 2:50 pm, 5:20 pm.

Laurell K. Hamilton, author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter books, has her own thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon. “Stephenie Meyer has come and she’s taken the genre that I sort of pioneered.[...]"

Um. Seriously? She pioneered? Because Le Fanu didn't create Carmilla, a seductive creature of the night, back in the mid-19th century? Obviously Stoker's Dracula was not an influence either. Or Coleridge's Geraldine, who was likely the basis for Carmilla.

And let's not acknowledge Stephen King's Salem's Lot or Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.

Let's not point out that Hamilton's grasp of plot, grammar, syntax, and logic are utterly nonexistent.

Uh-huh. Obviously, she created the vampire/supernatural creature genre of literature. OBVSLY.

How can she see around her monstrously huge ego?