My PopMatters article is up!

...oh, you remember, that comedy team.

Seriously, I'm on the front page and everything...at least for this weekend (come to think of it, you might want to schedule reading it as something pleasant to do of a Sunday afternoon).

After that, the link is under 'My Favourite Things', here. Please note that yours truly is mentioned not only as the author, but over there in the side blurb as 'exploring the partnership'. And you thought I was just being annoying! Well...yeah, as it turns out, annoying does get you places after all. I mean, this is me sharing a page with Snoop Dogg. Fame is in fact completely surreal...

Er...sorry, folks, you'll have to put up with the babbling for awhile. There's apparently no manual for how to react when the crowning dream of your life is realised - or at least begins to be realised (Shoemom: 'Yes dear, I'm so proud; next time, find out if they're paying you upfront, OK?') so, uh, yeah, babbling.

Meme article; or, not lost yet, thanks much...

Yeah, I know, promised it a week ago - the Friday of the boycott, to be exact. Which I'm sort of peeved RL got real busy just then because that was going to be my fine careless nose-thumbing at the mob. Naturally, it became instead an even more pointless gesture in defiance of a pointless gesture. My only consolation is I probably could never have deliberately come up with irony that perfect.

So. Return with me now, to the mists of...oh, about a week ago...and the following meme post:

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, etc. Repost in your own journal if you are so inclined.

I must say, I was really excited about the response to this, inasmuch as I got one. Maybe now that I'm an *ahem* published author and everything (and no, the novelty isn't liable to wear off any time soon) I'll start attracting more curiosity. So long as it's not in the form of lawsuits...

Anyhow, response. I admit it's the one I was kind of expecting when I posted the meme:

The trials of going door-to-door as a Jehovah's Witness!

Ye-eah.

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