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Yeah, yeah. It’s a day late. But who’s counting?

Merry Christmas! Hope you guys have been stuffed with food as I was.

To nerd is love. The Park Bench posted 50 nerdy things before you die.

48. Be bold and take your action figures out of the box, value be damned!

–Guilty as charged.

42. Defeat King Koopa. Just once, damn it!

–Gasp! I have actually done this. But way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

27. Go to an underground sing-along screening of the Buffy Musical. (When Buffy is outlawed, only outlaws will sing-along to Buffy.)

–Buffy and karaoke. Two things I love. If it reaches Houston, I’m there.

25. Spend an entire weekend watching Miyazaki films. Subsequently achieve outstanding bliss.

–Not all Miyazaki films are created equal. And I can tolerate only a few.

1. Live to see the day when smart and witty wins out over hot and shallow every single day of the week.

–This is when hell freezes over.

Thank you, Whedonesque for a likely new favorite read!

That’s my goal for the next two months.

Yup, I’m off for another attempt at writerly endeavor. The genre is romance. And as for the rest, it’ll come.

A wonderful piece about the WGA strike:

Click here to read the entire piece.

“You see, writers have long had a credo of “Pass it on.” When I say “long,” I mean cave-dwellers, sitting around the fire, enthralling listeners with tales of hope, terror, laughter and enchantment. Passing on stories is a writer’s reason for being — and at the core of that, they pass on their craft to other writers. Writers can be argumentative, isolated and petulant, but they adore what they do — to sit alone for a lifetime, dreaming up ways to enthrall others, you have to adore what you do — and so they have a burning desire to see that devotion continued. And so, they pass it on.

WGA writers understand that all the protections they enjoy today — minimum payment, pensions, health benefits, residuals — all came because earlier writers risked their careers to get them. The corporations did not provide these out of benevolence. And the entire film industry benefited from the gains the annoying writers got for them. “

iTunes: \aɪ-tōōns\ n, an evil entity draining money 99 cents at a time.

I knew that before. I reiterate it now.