Yesterday I hiked the canyons of Manhattan (anyone who thinks I'm joking has never been to Manhattan), succumbing to some crass commercial lures and avoiding others. Came home. Collapsed in tired heap. Poked a little at work things, and then finally caught "Castle," which -- while thin -- amused me enough to keep me watching. Nathan is adorable, the cop is just the right mix of amused and annoyed to come across as a Real Actual Person rather than Spunky!Cop!Sidekick/Love interest! and his mom and daughter were used just enough to make them entertaining rather than irritating. So long as we keep the ex-wife/publisher to a minimum, all should be well. And did I mention that Nathan is adorable?
Today was all about work. Tap tap tap on keyboards, broken by occasional swearing and intermittent snickering. Very boring to blog about, we shall draw a veil over it, except to sigh that I'm typing this back in my wrist brace. Grr. Tonight, some reading, and the last bit of cooking.
The kitchen is all cleared out and packed up, and tomorrow... tomorrow the cats will be Unhappy. Oh my yes.
Meanwhile,
( visual publishing humor behind the cut )And got a funny via GRRM, which I share with you:
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Some of the fans on the Westeros have been doing a SF/ fantasy version of the "Two Cows" meme. One of them drew my attention to the topic and said it might amuse me.
It did.
I thought you guy might enjoy some of these as well, since a few of your names are taken in vain.
The Left Hand of Darkness: You have two cows. Sometimes you have two bulls instead.
Foundation: You have two cows. You keep finding cryptic notes telling you when to milk them.
Roger Zelazny (Amber): You have two cows, all other cows are shadow
A Song of Ice and Fire: You have two cows. They both get killed.
Feast for Crows: You were supposed to have two cows, but Martin only gave you one. He swears that he'll be sending the second cow any day now...
Harlan Ellison: You have no cows, but you must moo.
Piers Anthony: You have two cows, and continue to milk them long after you should have stopped.
Thomas Covenant: You appear to have two cows, but you refuse to believe it.
The Island of Dr. Moreau: You have two cow-people. They kill you.
C. S. Lewis: You have two cows. They are a thinly veiled allegory.
Mad Max: Two cows enter. One cow leaves.
Richard Adams: You have no cows, but you do have a lot of rabbits.
J.K. Rowling: You have one cow. It shits gold.
Gardner Dozois: You gather many calves from many other ranchers, then trade them for a Hugo.
Ellen Datlow: You gather many calves from many other ranchers, then Gardner Dozois gets a Hugo
Daniel Abraham: - You have two cows. These are the only cows in the world, because your ancestors bound the concept of cow to reality through a poem.
H.P. Lovecraft: In the Stygian blackness that surrounds men and all of creation you acquire two cows. They whisper unknowable things to you at night. You mind bleeds with images drawn from the darkest wells of the universe even as you sense a mere fragment of the elder gods shadow your every thought. Slowly you suspect you have become mad as you rave these truths to your fellow human beings even as your plead to your cows to stop their whispering to you. Finally you see in your minds eyes how all of these truths come together. In one moment of true ecstasy you realize the entire scope of terrifying vista of reality and the universe. Seeing your place in the cosmic web of all things both real and unreal. The pleasure is so harsh it becomes intense pain in which the only way to escape it is through self-destruction
(there were a lot more, but these were the best)
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me again. Anyone feel the urge to add to the list, take your best shot... no sacred cows should remain umtipped!
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