Just wanted to point out that if you were a member of the City of Roses Facebook group, it’d be easier to find certain special surprises and treats, is all.

Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

• Take a picture of yourself right now.
• Don’t change your clothes.
• Don’t fix your hair
• Just take a picture.
• Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.)
• Include these instructions.

pnh

I’ve updated the interests listed in my LiveJournal profile, in an effort to clarify it to avoid the appearance that I am soliciting or encouraging illegal activities. —If we were all to revise our interests lists with a modicum of care and consideration, we might avoid situations in which community-moderating media companies, badgered by self-appointed defenders of the innocent, find themselves forced to “suspend reported journals that do not clearly and substantially object to these a reasonable person would think supported these activities. while at the same time portraying them.”

Do consider clarifying your own LiveJournal interests, won’t you?

Tomorrow (yes, it’s past midnight; so what) is my 38th birthday. —Tonight (yes, for it is still tonight), I thought I was heading down to the Bowery to watch the second disk of the second season of Veronica Mars. Instead, a roomful of friends from a bewildering variety of contexts all leaped out of the same room and yelled Happy Birthday, and then some of the best cartoonists in the Western Hemisphere handed me their interpretations of various City of Roses characters.

—Also, spinooti gave me a copy of Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy’s The Affected Provincial’s Companion, Vol. 1.

I’ll have to figure out how best to share this bounty over the next few days; tomorrow, we’re driving out to the Shire for the day. But until further notice, let me just rather woozily say:

Additional kiplet content available via LiveJournal:

• shortpier: the Long story; short pier feed.
• city_of_roses: the City of Roses feed.

Also, I do want to point out the chapbooks. —What you do with this knowledge is entirely up to you.