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[kleenexwoman]

So. Techies finally called. Computer is OK. Keyboard needs to be replaced. It will cost $$$. That is OK in itself, but it will take a few days and those few days are a few days that I am not writing my novel. WHY did I have to spill pop on my keyboard right before when I'm supposed to be using it the most? This. Just. Sucks. I will have to double up on writey once I get the thing back, because everyone is going "Ooh, lookit my counter I have like 3,000 words already" and I'm like, "OH GOD I SUCK."
I separate things I write into two categories: Notebook stories, and computer stories. Notebook stories are written on the beach or in the Kaya cuddled up next to a cup of chai, penned in ink and blood and sweat and coffee fumes in my careful, elaborate handwriting, and only later transcribed onto pixels. Computer stories are banged out on the keyboard at breakneck pace while I wear a fedora and chain-smoke like Spider Jerusalem. This novel is a computer story. I'd hurt my hands if I wrote it on paper. I did try to write out a little of it yesterday, but it just wouldn't come. Please, computer guy, please please please give me back my laptop...
In the meantime, I'm going to go over the beginning in my head and try to work out the plot knots so that it feels like I'm doing something useful. Grrr...

Happy stuff? Well, I watched "High School, USA" last night. SO DAMN CUTE. Slightly retarded Crispin in overalls. One gets the feeling that "play this character as actually being retarded" was not in the script, but it works so well, with his thick-tongued delivery and general cluelessness and trying to hit on girls in an extremely incompetent way.
Michael J. Fox looked exactly like a 12-year-old girl. This isn't a bad thing, he just did.

Ah-hah, here's interestingness:
Best possible couples, ithurtsmybrain list:

Santa Claus/Bruce Campbell
It's going to be a good year, I can tell.

Philip J. Fry (Futurama)/Cosmo (The Fairly Oddparents)
This actually could work. They would get along very, very well.

Zaphod Beeblebrox (HHGttG)/Ted (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure)
and
Ted (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure)/Ford Prefect (HHGttG)
Ted sure gets around.

Biff Tannen (Back to the Future)/Zaphod Beeblebrox (HHGttG)
Man, that Zaphod sure gets around. (Did I ever tell you about the George McFly/Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged idea I had?)

R2D2 (Star Wars)/Marvin the Paranoid Android (HHGttG, BBC miniseries)
This actually seems kind of reasonble...does R2D2 have a personality? Would Marvin depress him?

Susan Sto Helit (Discworld)/Fozzy Bear (Muppets)
Why can I totally see this?

Spider Jerusalem (Transmetropolitan)/Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report)
YES.

Socrates (Willard, 2003 movie)/Vic Sage, The Question (DC)
There's no real reason, but I do want to think of a justification for this.

Danny Elfman (RPS)/Sabriel (Sabriel)
It's been a while since I read the Sabriel books...I am sure I could think of some way to justify this. Like, an alternate universe where...oh, fuck it, I'm not writing Sabriel fanfiction.

Comments

[evillunch.livejournal.com]

It's sad how quickly I can accept Fry/Cosmo. XD
Of course Bender/Fry is my OTP

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing at the last one* I think Danny would be terrified of Sabriel, with the whole raising the dead thing.

God, it's been ages since I read that series. I don't think I even finished it. I'm not big on serieseseses.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Wait, there's a sequel? I mean, it's a series? I did not know what. What a trip. I'll have to find those now.

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

We're talking Sabriel by Garth Nix, yes? Yeah, there's I think 3 or 4 in the series...

[ghostgecko.livejournal.com]

Socrates/Question?
Lord help me, I think I might have an idea for this!

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Really? Yay! I can't wait to see what this is.

[thatnoise.livejournal.com]

Philip Glass is going to be in Michigan next wednesday.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

WHERE?!?!?!?! I WANT TO GO SEE HIM.

[oddzade.livejournal.com]

Dude, Zaphod and Ted might have some gnarly adventures together.

I love the way you describe writing stories because I feel the same way. Actually, this is the first year I am doing the NaNo thing, because I am slow and very fond of only writing in notebooks. (Hey, it has that certain charm that computers just can't touch!) I don't trust computers not to lose things (which is ironic, because my computer never lost enything I wrote but I lost a notebook that was quite dear to me a couple years ago). I have to suck it up and force myself to go fast and focus on quality a little less and quantity more.

The image of fedora wearing and chain smoking is just pricelessly, delightfully mad, even though I don't really know what you look like. XD

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I use notebooks when I do a story that has to be written slowly and with much thought. Makes me feel like an artist instead of just a hack with some flashy narrative tricks. (Also, I have terrible handwriting if I write quickly.) I actually write more poetry than anything in notebooks.

I don't really chain smoke--bad for you! But I do have a hat that looks vaguely like a fedora.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

If you wrote Fairly Oddparents fic. I would just marry you. There would be no questions asked!

[bestfiend.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that your computer will be okay. When your brain is on fire, notebooks just don't cut it.

Santa Claus/Bruce Campbell

I can't wait. Gosh, I can't even imagine. Well, perhaps a bit...

[burism.livejournal.com]

you realize i have to add all of your new interests, right?

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on, I haven't been bragging about them or anything. That's needlessly cruel of you.

[burism.livejournal.com]

thats me, needlessly cruel. the only way you can get out of it is by friending me.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

You make an excellent argument, and I like the cartoon you posted. Ta-dah.

[burism.livejournal.com]

dont foget that i'm adorable and know lots about anthropology.