All the other stuff I haven't posted

[petronia]

A oneliner I have to work in somehow: thank you, Kubo Tite. You have made me happy.

The avian flu virus has reached Quebec. I am terrified of the avian flu, in the cheerful way of the natural paranoiac who's always had mental contingency plans in case of terrorist attacks on public transit and whatnot. I'm of the supposedly most vulnerable demographic, and my respiratory system has a history of rolling over and dying in a flood of phlegm at the least onslaught. If there is indeed a flu pandemic I will have to draw up a will. It's kind of a pity, I always expected to be taken by pneumonia at age 100.

On SSBB: you will note that December's theme is a t.A.T.u. song. t.A.T.u. is nutritious and ghei. I very nearly posted a tracklisting for a Pet Shop Boys mix CD and said "pick any one", but that would've required me to make a tracklisting.

My story is sort of rough. About 80% of it was written longhand in a notebook while barricaded in my room between 11PM and 2AM, brain-dead and tipsy on cold vodka - repeatedly, over the course of a week. I typed it up when I could but it's only very lightly edited. Unlike the people on ficcated who said they felt more perfectionist pressure when working on origfic, I'm actually sloppier with my origfic than my fanfic - what are you going to be measuring it against, after all? It doesn't have to make a point either with regard to the canon or the fandom. ^^; Thus my origfic is always kind of craptastic in comparison. In the case of this particular story I couldn't polish the prose to my usual standard even if I wanted, because no one speaks like "my usual standard", not even me, not even unrealistic first-person narrators out of Murakami or Conrad who blab on for hours with great attention to effect and not so much as a drink of water. Concept >>> execution, but at least it has the merit of an interesting concept.

Tania's I did beta, because it is her privilege to break my brain when she sees fit. I left most of the punctuation in, though, otherwise you don't get the full effect of the Special. XD

For extra fun and profit, guess which story was written by a guy! XD

Jay Chou has a way of working looped samples of easily recognizable sounds into the instrumentation of his tracks - there's one here that grows to sound like a sitar having a heated argument with a cellphone. Yeah it's a gimmick but not one anyone else's used to my knowledge, at least in such an unabashedly radio pop context. (joliefolie, this album is called November's Chopin. Is that not amusing. XD)

Movie and CD reviews to come. But first I have to get home, and it's raining again.

Comments

[beeblebabe.livejournal.com]

Well, hey, you could always just eat your kimchi (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4347443.stm).

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

South Koreans don't need to eat more kimchi. I've been in Seoul as the morning mobs roll out of the subway in a great wave of garlic-cabbage breath, and I know.

[beeblebabe.livejournal.com]

I know, I thought that was funny. I was like... eating more kimchi? Is that even possible?

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

Since my paternal grandmother's first husband died of the Spanish flu, I've always been intrigued/weary about the flu.

Let's just say hearing it confirmed that avian flu (NOT the kind in Asia, though) is here is NOT reassuring... even worse since you can just BREATHE in the next room and I'll catch a cold, so imagine how well I'll resist the real thing if a pandemic start and color me worried.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

All the more reason to eat Korean! I've been on a Korean kick these past few months. XD

[beeblebabe.livejournal.com]

After reading that this morning and talking about kimchi with the Asian clique at work yesterday, I had to come home and try my hand at making kimchi jigae and mmm, I feel 100% FREE OF BIRD FLU.

My roommate tried feeding some kimchi to her cockatiels, but they were uninterested.

[cirdan-havens.livejournal.com]

*nod* Best beware. I heard from a geneticist that this flu is darn dangerous. Probably just being kept under wraps so considering what we are hearing...

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

As between kimchi and bird flu, I'll go with the latter. At least one dies with one's bowels intact.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

The Spell! I'm almost positive. The Spell struck me as being very very not like the usual yaoi manga anthology fare, and very very much like the usual gay lit fare. It's much more overtly sentimental. There's less seperation bewteen the reader and the main character, which might be indicative of less separation between the writer and the main character. More than anything else, it is markedly different from the other entries...I could go on, but that would only make me more horribly embarrassed after I find out I'm wrong. Eheh.

Unpolished. Are you kidding. Yours was my favorite entry.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Alas no. XD (I only mention because he was worried about unsuitability, and I assured him the story was textually well within bounds.)

You're right about "The Spell" being different. It's by far the longest story, for one. I don't think it's outside the purview of BL manga though, in fact it feels like a classic romance to me so... I don't know. Maybe just the fact that it's so classy. In any case it's one of my favorites in this issue. XD

[joliefolie.livejournal.com]

Yes... amusing... ^^;; You have it on the computer?