Buying Crap

I hate the season of buying crap. For Chanukah, I managed to make, or at least process gifts for the family. One nephew got my old collection of Nausicäa manga volumes. The other got a CD full of wildly varied MP3s for his new iPod. My parents got a CD of Yiddish songs that I digitized from an old LP I picked up somewhere, etc.

Snake and I were discussing Christmas, and neither of us really wants anything. Or if we do want something, it seems lame to tell the other person, get it wrapped and put it under a tree. I dunno. We're looking forward to buying kitchen tools during Boxing Week sales. A new deep fryer!

But in general, I'm having a punk/humbug reaction to present buying.

Just to make this post totally hypocritical, I should mention that we have bought some cool stuff in the last couple of weeks:

• Three Silicon sex toys kitchen utensils, i.e., a spatula, a jar spatula and brush for basting or oiling crepe pans, etc. All are easily washable and can take heat.


• A pair of used YSM-1 flat-response monitor speakers for the living room at $198 for the pair, which was too irresistable to pass up. They are the same kind as I have used in my studio for the past 13 years and they are now no longer available. I love flat-response, studio style speakers because I want to hear the mix as it was intended, not as dubiously jazzed up for consumer tastes.


• Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy! dvd because I'm that much of a fag.

DOB Question

Hmm, Chapter 17 is all done and ready to publish.

Should I post it now or would you all rather wait...

*evil laugh*

Days of Becoming, Chapter 17

Title: Days of Becoming, Chapter 17 - “All Saints Day”
Author: Talktooloose
'Verse: X-Men movieverse
Warnings: Swearing, spiritual dislocation, long speeches and explicit sex.

Betas: kuria_dalmatia, mofic and lux_apollo. Thank you for asking me tough questions. I hope you like the re-writes.

Disclaimers: Marvel and 20th Century own this stuff but they can't keep the story straight.

Series Summary: This novel focusses mainly on the paths Iceman and Pyro take on their way to adulthood and how they discover and deal with their love for each other. It is a novel about what Joni Mitchell calls "the dream's malfunction" and how we can learn to make our own dreams when our heroes fail us. Other X characters (including ones from comicverse and elsewhere) and OC's play prominent roles and the action begins before X1, continues through the events of X2 and X3 and concludes in the aftermath of that movie.

Chapter Summary: Bobby fights for John. Xavier reveals the mansion's secrets.

Well! Two updates in less than two weeks! That's not gonna happen again! Expect 18 in January. Happy holidays, everyone. I'll be writing; I promise.

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Here's the chapter!

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