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Interview with Michael Chabon, plugging the lovely Summerland:
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/10/22/chabon/index.html

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o/~ It's l'il kielle's birthday
She's 30 today
Let's help her celebrate it
In her own...special...waaaaaaaaay...

*kof*

o/~ Happy birthday Kielle
Here's a pint of beer
It comes in pints now
Here's your first of the year

Happy birthday Kielle
Here's a Rohan horse
To take you where you want to go
(It doesn't speak Norse)

Happy birthday Kielle
Here's a vial with a light
(Okay it's just a glo-stick
It was all I could find last night)

Happy birthday Kielle
Here's a song from me to you
Have a spiffy neato day
That something...something...um... Oooooooooooooooooo!

And we do mean you!

internet typo of the day

"Gee! One would think I am absessed with Italian artists..."

From an altered book artist's picture site. That's gotta hurt!

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Why Will You Go To Hell?
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Ehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe!

the meme of ween, nicked from vali

1. Name the three movies that have frightened you the most. Feel free to explain why.

The Blair Witch Project. Seen properly in a theater, it's mean and evil and bad. God bless it.

Fantasia. Except that the Ave Maria part scared me a hundred times more than Night on Bald Mountain. What the hell's wrong with me?

Threads. Major nuke-mare brought to life - made even scarier by knowing that the reality would be much worse.

2. Do you have an irrational fear?

Swarming carpenter ants. Except I've actually been bothered by swarming carpenter ants, so I'm not sure it qualifies as irrational.

3. What is the scariest book you have ever read?

I read Amphigorey by Edward Gorey when I was 10 or 11, and it was insidious and horrible and induced anxiety attacks. Naturally I checked it out every couple of months.

4. Have you ever seen a film or read a book that frightened you so much you couldn't finish it?

Clive Barker's Books of Blood. I picked up a copy for Shawn once, and the opening epigraph managed to both gross me out and annoy the shit out of me. Sorry, Clive.

I nearly walked out of Cronenberg's version of The Fly, but that was due more to nearly upchucking than fear.

5. Was there something that frightened you as a child that seems silly now? (For example, a weird shape outside your window, or a character in a movie.)

The Wicked Witch of the West. The Gorilla on that Gilligan's Island episode. Letting your hand or bare foot dangle out from under the bedclothes. Certain spots in the neighborhood that were inherently evil. Churches.

6. Have you ever had any encounters with anything paranormal? Seen a ghost, used a Ouija board, had a precognitive dream?

I saw (except that's the wrong verb) a ghost at Susan's old house. Also, for reasons that have always escaped me (as did reasons for much of his behavior), Dad came back and bombed the house with Lime Old Spice. Really bugged the poor dog.

I've had precognitive dreams, but they're invariably my subconscious leaving me a note based on already-acquired information.

7. If you made your own horror movie or wrote a horror story/novel, what would it be about?

I don't want to think about it right now. You're wiggin' me out here.

8. If you could be (or should I say had to be) any creature of the night (e.g., a vampire, a werewolf), what would you be?

I gotta go with Vali on this one and say a ghost. Versatility, as she said, plus wide latitude in the dress code and unlimited free travel.

9. If you could communicate in a direct way with one deceased person personally known to you, who would it be?

Um...pass.

10. If you could communicate in a direct way with one deceased person *not* personally known to you, who would it be?

Oscar Wilde, if he's not too busy.