New Lost monster theory

It's a pile driver that's gone HOG WILD!

Hunter S. Thompson Memorial, Doonesbury Style

Karmic Shift

Ye-ah, I'm a freak

SMH: "Just shy of her 37th birthday, she has one or two children. She is increasingly likely to be a single mother, and her biggest complaint about sex is lack of interest - on her own part. More and more, this is a profile of the Australian Everywoman."

Only one of the above characterisitics applies to me.

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The nice lady just came to take frankxcat and timbus to kitty prison the cattery while Jon and I are OS.

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Go and read dinosaurcostume's meditations on snow. Now.

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The closure of the Doctor Who novels slushpile is a sad, but hopefully temporary situation. That slushpile gave me my big break and has done the same for numerous terrific writers (eg Nick Wallace, whose knockout EDA Fear Itself will be out in September).

It strikes me as odd, though, that so many fans lamenting the slushpile's demise have never actually submitted anything to it - eg Steve Hatcher in the latest Enlightenment. Guys, it's been thirteen years: get a move on.

Evidence that the novel is my natural medium

"The Southwell Park Mermaid seems to be a fragment of a larger story." - Enlightenment review of Short Trips: Life Science

"Kate Orman hands in a typically beautifully-written piece, The Southwell Park Mermaid, but her medium is the novel, which allows her plots the space they need to breathe." - DWM review of same

DWM

- It's got a little National Geographic index down the spine now!

- Isn't Martin Geraghty's Infinity Doctors Doctor cute?

ETA: Actually, the toon of RTD in his ermine robes looks a bit like him!

Lyrics 1

Toyah's lyrics to Lion of Symmetry: moving or rubbish?

Lyrics 2: Wordplay

Wordplay

ELP, Hallowed be thy Name

Oasis, Supersonic

Melissa Etheridge, Secret Agent