Kip Manley

This week on—

2009-07-08T04:12:06Z

My LiveJournal Sitcom
kiplet at the library (ABC, 1:00): kiplet (Kurt Russell) unknowingly gets high before a meeting with ellen_kushner (Sarah Polley). That same day, sararyan (Jack Benny) gets mad at quirkybird (Judy Garland) and decides to join the Peace Corps. Afterwards, vinnie_tesla (Jayne Mansfield) trades Klondike bars with coffeeem (Ed Asner). The week after, pineappleinc (Peter MacNicol) makes lots of money playing guitar on the street and makes erikamoen (Lon Chaney) jealous. Upstairs, b_zedan (George Takei) misinterprets an email from alg (Jeff Goldblum) and tries to get into a homeless shelter for free. Insanity ensues.
What's Your LiveJournal Sitcom? (by rfreebern)

My LiveJournal Sitcom

kiplet at the library (ABC, 1:00): kiplet (Kurt Russell) unknowingly gets high before a meeting with ellen_kushner (Sarah Polley). That same day, sararyan (Jack Benny) gets mad at quirkybird (Judy Garland) and decides to join the Peace Corps. Afterwards, vinnie_tesla (Jayne Mansfield) trades Klondike bars with coffeeem (Ed Asner). The week after, pineappleinc (Peter MacNicol) makes lots of money playing guitar on the street and makes erikamoen (Lon Chaney) jealous. Upstairs, b_zedan (George Takei) misinterprets an email from alg (Jeff Goldblum) and tries to get into a homeless shelter for free. Insanity ensues.

What's Your LiveJournal Sitcom? (by rfreebern)

A momentary outburst of cross-platform self-promotion.

2009-05-31T15:22:33Z

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.

Taran Jack Manley.

2008-11-01T14:40:36Z

Photos.

2008-11-01T01:50:37Z

Since I can't update Long story; short pier (what with the hospital thinking it’s PORNOGRAPHY and all), here’s what our Twit ter studio looks like:

(Also, Jenn’s mom.)

Before.

During.

After yet to come...

kiplet @ 2008-10-31T11:21:00

2008-10-31T18:24:01Z

Oh, hey, did I mention we're having a baby? Like, right now? —I mean, Jenn is, anyway. I'm helping as I can. (Twitters for those who tweet: herself; myself.)

kiplet @ 2008-10-31T10:58:00

2008-10-31T18:16:52Z

I don't normally do these, but this is the shit that really gets my goat.

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.

Photomeme!

2008-09-18T06:15:04Z

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.

(—via pnh)

Always open with blood.

2008-09-01T13:34:07Z

Discount if you’ve already seen this elsewhere: the sixth fit of City of Roses, “Anvil,” has begun to appear for free over thataway. So: new stuff Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for the next two weeks.

Meanwhile, I’ve got to start worrying about the seventh...

Anvils and zines, oh my!

2008-08-17T00:33:38Z

I'll be tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium for the third year in a row, with chapbooks, sneak peeks, photo-prints, roses, and maybe even some stickers. Would you like some stickers? —If you're really especially very good, I might even have finished no. 6 by then. —But you won't know if you don't show. So.

All I ever post about here anymore is LJ drama--

2007-11-30T23:30:32Z

No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand? Even—and I want to make this absolutely clear—even if they do say Jehovah!

Dear 6Apart, and/or LiveJournal--

2007-10-26T21:27:32Z

I did not ask for Snap Shot (TM) previews on every link on my Friends page. I did not ask for Snap Shot (TM) previews on every link on my Friends page because I do not want Snap Shot (TM) previews on every link on my Friends page. Snap Shot (TM) previews are one of those things whose appeal I've never understood; they're slow, they're very slow, they're buggy, and they mask the terribly handy link preview text down in the lower left corner of the browser.

Also, they're slow.

How do I make the Snap Shot (TM) previews on every link on my Friends page go away?

Thanking you in advance.

PS: They're on my main page, too. --Is there a switch somewhere I'm missing where I can turn them off? Because I can't seem to find one, nor any mention of Snap Shot (TM) previews being applied as an unwanted default to every link in LiveJournal on any of the various design and update communities I can find. Of course, the various design and update communities I can find don't appear to have Snap Shot (TM) previews on every link. So there must be a simple way to turn them off. Right? Right?

Coyote is icumen in, lhude sing cuccu!

2007-07-17T03:21:55Z

The third issue of Coyote Wild, a quarterly journal of speculative fiction—spec fic? spiffy? slipstream? the phantastick, lightly tripped? good stuff?—has, at any rate, appeared as scheduled: the Summer issue, which features, among a brace of poems and an ogdoad of stories, fine company indeed, which I’ll be getting to know better after dinner and a bit of pomegranate liqueur, but look a moment there, under the heading Special Feature, where you’ll find the “Prolegomenon” of my own little City of Roses.

Which accounts for today’s default setting of goofy, head-splitting grin.

Yeah, he's all about the whizzer white--

2007-05-31T17:54:08Z

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?

Yet more evidence the terrorists have won.

2006-10-17T22:25:50Z

Apparently, ever since 9/11, luggage lockers have been banished from train stations in New York City.

What use is civilization, I ask you?

Anyway, we're (probably) training down from Boston to Penn Station and we'll need a place to store a large piece of luggage until we catch a train from Penn Station to the Jersey shore. Neither train is Amtrak, or we'd check the bags with them. Anyone have any (other) solutions?

and many more--

2006-09-16T07:18:13Z

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:

wow

A brief reminder that has nothing to do with LiveJournal Fake Day.

2006-08-04T08:01:29Z

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.

Hermione Granger and the Lost Shaker of Salt.

2006-02-28T23:10:14Z

—for spinooti, who really needs to bake them more pies.

Feeds.

2006-02-07T06:06:51Z

So I’m trying an .htaccess redirect for the various RSS feeds for the pier that people might have subscribed to, to keep them from having to resubscribe again, and it seems to have bollixed up the works over at Bloglines, though the redirect itself appears to be working fine.

Maybe it’s just Bloglines hiccupping again. Beuller? Bueller? —LiveJournal, apparently we’ll have to wait till, um, 2006-02-07 02:23:05 on whatever clock it uses to see if it works there or not.

Anyway, all works well, and everything should light back up again. Doesn’t, and, well, maybe you’ll have to resubscribe again.

—The one thing Movable Type let you do that I miss? Let you build your own feeds. Designate the URLs they’d appear in. I like having one feed for excerpts and one for full dress. Gives the audience choices. I like being able to pick where they pop. Gives me choices. WordPress and TextPattern, not so much. In this particular regard.

So what happened to the pier?

2006-01-28T21:09:38Z

Okay.

So I was using DreamHost for webhosting. Not a sausage of a problem for a good long while, but the first sign of trouble and they yanked my site without warning. Couldn’t even get at the thing to figure out what the problem was or how to fix it.

Such details as I have been able to glean are available here, if you are so inclined.

I’m in the process, today, I guess, of moving everything; I’ve got backups of the blog’s database in a variety of formats, so that, at least, is not to worry, knock wood. After some little examination and comparison, I’m currently leaning toward A Small Orange. Anybody know any better, please, feel free to speak up.

And heck, while I’m at it, let’s maybe add something else to the plate. I moved the blog from Movable Type to WordPress for a variety of reasons, and it caused (or excused, yes) some of the interminable delays last year; I still haven’t been able to wrap my head around exactly where to start with building WordPress out the way I wanted. So I’m poking Textpattern to see what happens. It has fewer features, perhaps, but it thinks like I think, I think, and so it will be much easier to work with; the irony, of course, being I would have jumped to Textpattern last year had I not in an intemperate moment leaped on DreamHost’s outrageously cheap storage-and-bandwidth-and-easy-WordPress-install. —I just need to work out some permalink issues for the legacy stuff (attempt at which discussed here); I get that taken care of, and we’re off to the races.

So: the pier stuttered back to life for a few short weeks and is now being shuttered again. But for a brief spell! We hope. Watch this space.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit huffing cats.

2006-01-27T23:20:41Z

Whoa. Did, like, Bloglines just eat all your feeds, too?

Would yez lookit that.

2006-01-14T06:53:13Z

Someone set up a spankin’ new LiveJournal feed for the pier.

If I had a hammer, I’d do something about all these goddamn nails.

2006-01-08T07:30:18Z

Against the law to advocate overthrowing US gov’t.

What do you mean? I’ve never done anything of the kind!

Membership in California Lawyers for the Environment, right? Worked for the American Socialist Legal Action Group, right?

So what? We never advocated anything but change!

Smirk of scorn, hatred. He knew he had me.

I had my second Afghani dinner in as many days with Julia and her husband and her brother in an exquisite little stripmall joint somewhere deep in the wilds of Queens, far to the east of anywhere I’d been before, and the sabzi challow was just as good as she’d said it would be, and when her brother and I caught a subway back to Manhattan I got to remember all over again why you never get on an empty subway car in the middle of summer.

And despite the conventional wisdom about how oddly disjointed it is to meet in the flesh someone you’ve only known online, the only really awkward moment came when it usually did, for me, at least: Why’d you stop? she said.

I shrugged and said what I usually said: I don’t know. I stopped because I’d stopped.

more—

Bangle days--

2005-12-14T18:21:15Z

So BoingBoing says check out American Edit and so I do, and I’ve heard my share of mashups, but the one where they slide “Whatsername” and “Manic Monday” together is something of an apotheosis of the form (thus far): the shared narrative space the two songs describe as they talk past each other has a terrible poignancy far and above what either manages alone, and I thought I’d take a moment to point that out to you.

Operation Fruitcake.

2005-12-04T00:56:56Z

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s so gosh-darned simple, it’s got to work.

varro has the scoop. Now you have the word. Spread it.

Oh, I see. Oh, I get it.

2005-11-19T03:33:58Z

Cylons are GMs.