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2005 TOP TEN POETRY FAVORITES ALL AROUND dA LIT! IN THE NEWS!
2006 TOP TEN LITERATURE FAVORITES ALL AROUND dA LIT! IN THE NEWS!


Oh, hi.

I have this other blog that I update a few times a month that you might want to look at: The Hate-Mongering Tart. (`PoeticWar called me that once, which wasn't very nice.) It has book reviews, recipes, news, and rants. And pictures of cats.

I haven't been on dA much lately, which is too bad because i LOVE dA and all that jazz. But I got a promotion at work and it entails one of my favorite things: reading kids books. I'm the inventory manager for the kids section at the bookstore I've been working at since April, which is a lot of fun (and a lot of work). My boss hands out ARCs (advance readers' copies) for us to read and review so she knows which ones we should carry and whether or not it will sell at our store. So, in short, I get to read new books for free before you even know they exist. This means I've spent a lot of time with a book in my hands rather than staring at the lappy.

Which is mostly good, I guess, because it's much more enriching than refreshing various blogs and networking sites while watching sitcom reruns (summer TV sucks) and waiting for =kaujot to get home from his night job. But, of course, the down side is I don't get to keep up with you guys, my dA friends. Poop.

But I got my internets on IRL on Saturday, which was the Second Annual Texas Devmeet in Austin. We met at Mozart's, which is a really neat little coffee shop on Town Lake. A little out of the way, but a really good place to be when it's as hot as it was this weekend. I blame the heat for having a smaller turn out than last year. But, man, it was a good time. We chatted, took photos, and, I think I can speak for everyone here, had a great time meeting new friends and catching up with folks we met last year.

The afterparty was at my place. And by afterparty I mean geekfest - we played NES and then a good round of Apples to Apples (a great social card game that you must play if you haven't). It turns out my cat has forgiven ^lemontea for last year's offenses during his visit to New York. And =smoking-mirrors and ~GodsLittleHeathen totally cheat at cards by knowing eachother too well for it to be fair for us to play with them. And =DJStrife knows all the words to Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell II (to be fair, though, so do I).

We really missed you, ~caveatLECTOR. And your little girl, too!

In other news, I have become obessed and addicted to LibraryThing.com . It's gotten to the point where I take stacks of books and type in the ISBNs to make sure I have the correct editions listed (much editing to be done on the first hundred or so I cataloged...). And I've heard people say they like other sites better, but I haven't tried them and don't need another book drug in my system at the moment. BUT I do recommend LibraryThing to all you book nerds (and I know so many of you!) and when you give in to your need to display your library proudly on the interwebs, I fully expect you to add me as a friend so we can compare our books!

I think that's all for now. Except I do feel the need to announce that I pulled an all nighter on Sunday-Monday doing inventory at the store and it made me so friggin' crazy (crazy enough to drink cofee) with lack of sleep that I'm still recovering from it. But the BookFolk rock, and I'm glad we did it. AWESOME.

PS go buy the new issue of Fuselit, FOX, which is awesome. I mean, yeah, one of my poems is in it, but those crazy people also hand-painted and assembled each issue. ~discocabrado and ~jack-cade should be commended and then institutionalized for their commitment to such high-quality, unique work. GO BUY THE ISSUE (...and their back catalog) now while it's still so cheap! Christ, it's so awesome!

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