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Cecil has a short story over at the YA Review Network. It's a sci fi retelling of Little Red Riding Hood called "To Grandmother's House"

So my sister responded to the WSJ opinion piece that set off the #YASaves thing on Twitter here in her role as YA editor for the LA Review of Books

According to an old Michael Moorcock essay, "If I were sitting in a tube train and all the people opposite me were reading Mein Kampf with obvious enjoyment and approval it probably wouldn't disturb me much more than if they were reading Heinlein, Tolkein or Richard Adams."

I stumbled across the essay while glancing at the dust-up about steampunk Charlie Stross set off. (Personally, I always thought steampunk *did* deal with those issues, but maybe I'm thinking of early pieces in the genre or before the genre coalesced and now it is just gears and corsets and costumes.)

I did think the whole side discussion of Hobbits as an Arts and Crafts society was interesting, especially since it strikes me as exactly what a lot of StrowlerCon people wanted their Steampunk to be.

As joenotcharles reminds me, someone decided to write a review of the movie implied by the caption in my previous post.

Does anyone have a good idea on how I could get some halfway decent Business Cards printed up by Tuesday? I am going to a Montreal Trade Board thing as a member of PWAC and would like to hand out cards.

Note that I have no time to *design* cards, which is an issue to me. (I really do need to find/work with a designer and get that done.) I also should really put up a working facsimile of a website which I don't have time for, either.

Regardless, simple and old-fashioned can work, but I need to print them and get them on fairly short notice. Also, the crushing poverty.

So anyone know a local, sharp printer to recommend? Or an online one I can actually expect to get it done and shipped in time?

Thanks.

Was that ANOTHER response to a job application I saw in my inbox?

Two nights of going out in the company of smart, lovely women of my acquaintance reminds me that this is something I enjoy and should do more of even as I try to refocus on actually charting a path that takes me off of my parents' couch sometime in the near future.

I checked out the Kick Ash comedy show with misskitty_79 Saturday, and will be performing on it the 16th. On the 15th, I will be at the Too Much comedy show - since they have relaunched and one of the bookers was there Saturday.

Tonight I had a lovely dinner with la_lionne, caught up on her life, and have decided I need to do more research on whether Marie Antoinette had numerous lesbian affairs. (This is the sort of thing that happens when having dinner with an English Lit and Gender Studies major.)

January plans include driving practice, actually lining up people for photo shoots (those who want to model or even just be test subjects for makeup, lighting, and costume experimentation are welcome to volunteer), doing proper job hunting, writing that 5-colour silk poem/song/whatever that keeps rattling in my head, connecting with Kyn-mad-arab and company about the Twilight Zone play, and otherwise remembering to be productive.

These pieces seem to not be up for auction yet, but are also art pieces based on my sister's story.

I am particularly fond of the hand-bound journal with a synapse for a clasp, but then I might be biased.