• Dark Brown
• 4 chairs
• 1 table - 145 cms long x 75 cms deep

• Dark Brown
• Slightly damaged (one of the legs is missing the support for the bottom shelf).
• 118 cms long x 78 cms deep

• Energy rating - uses 512 kilowatts per year.
• Top lid of crisper was damaged when it was delivered to my place - I haven't found this to be a problem though.

• Panasonic Microwave.
• Beville Dripolator Coffee Machine.

During Clarion, I have become a choad. All I ever talk about with my wife is my stories, my writing, things that have happened while writing, whether I'm a good enough writer, is this story good enough, and maybe I can write some more.

I know I'd want to punch me in the face.

And yet she's still there, loving me, supporting me. It feels like a complete blessing, like great wings attached to my back. I know I'm a shallow twit now, the sort of obsessed artist who I normally mock, and I suspect that I'll be doing this for some time afterwards. My writing's suddenly become a lot harder, and a lot more psychodramatical.

She's still there.

I don't know why she's there, but I love her for that.

Vogue Paris August 2008
Photographed by Mario Testino
Styled by Carine Roitfeld



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Editorial - Paris Nouvelle Vague
Photographer - Taki Bibelas
Scanned by Diciassette at bwgreyscale.com

baby animals alphabet.....
http://dalesdesigns.net/BA1.htm

and thank you prodigy69

shadesong's blogathon is starting tomorrow, in which she does a post every half-hour for 24 hours to donate to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Click here for more details. She has auctions running, and cool flashficlets, and... oh, I'm too tired to sum up properly. It's cool, and you'll get Stuff out of it if you do, and it's for a worthy cause. So go.

In other news, I:

1) Need to rearrange my life when I get back so that I can spend two hours writing daily, no matter what. Eep.
2) Need to finish critiquing six stories before breakfast.
3) Need to write a big ol' post on this week's guest speaker, a personal hero of mine, in which I will fanboy-bukkake you all with my squee, but that takes time I do not have.
4) Need to do more research on the Cuyahoga River. Yes, it caught fire. We in Cleveland are not thrilled to discuss that.

does anyone know of somewhere that does relatively cheap photo calendars, or somewhere that might give discount for an order of 10+ calendars? bonus points if you can give me a website with pictures and pricing
ta

Deaf Can Do is holding a quiz night to raise money.

Date: Friday 1st August
Time: 7pm for 8pm start
Locatin: Deaf Can Do, 262 South Trc, Adelaide

Tables of 8 or 10 available.
Prices:
$16 a head
$140 for a table of 10
$120 for a table of 8

BYO nibbles. Beer, wine and soft drinks available for purchase at the bar.

There will be otehr games and fundraising activites on the night so bring along loose change.

Bookings and more info: call Caroline
0404 127 717
8111 6550
caroline.collier@ghd.com.au

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We have a Wii.

N decided to get herself one as a congratulatory present, but we called around town and called around town and there weren't any (apparently they're popular! Who knew?!) At dinner with friends tonight, our friend S mentioned that she and her wife had obtained the elusive Wii at a Target.

So we trundled off to Target. And there were no Wiis in the case. The case was Wiiless.

However, the security guard and the electronics clerk were carefully reviewing the contents of a Wii box at the electronics desk. They were just re-boxing it when I said, "Um, do you have any more Wiis?" (Seriously. Why did they name it that? Does its plural take tenement photographs? Does it muckrake?)

"Have this one," the clerk said. And we said, "Okay!"

"Let me just go look at the games really quick," said darthrami. So we ducked back down the aisle -- leaving the Wii, our Wii, alone and exposed on the counter, and the clerk wandering away, as they do.

There in the aisle, a little girl was scuff-kicking against the empty Wii case while her mother whispered in best please-don't-do-this-to-me-it's-9PM mode, "They're all out, honey."

"Buh. Buh, buh. BUH I WANNIT!"

"We'll get you one of these ones," the mother said, scooching her sniffling juvenile over to the X-Box display just a few inches onward.

"I don't, I don't, I dun WANT one of THOSE ONES!"

"Honey," I urged N, who was faffling among the different games and controllers, "Let's go buy the thing." I wanted to say, I'll take you to Best Buy to get games! I'll take you to the moon! But if that Momzilla comes out of the aisle and sees the Wii on the counter, it won't be your Wii anymore!

After a blithe, dazzled moment, darthrami followed me out of the aisle and said happily, "Okay! Look, I grabbed an extra contro--"

"That's nice, baby, let's buy the thinger!"

Momzilla and "I WANT A WII!" stayed in the aisle, and the clerk rang us out and quickly, quickly triple-bagged our new gaming system, lest we be attacked by half the browsers in the store.

...And now there is a brain in our TV, and it wants me to bowl with it.

From sacramentalist: Rush, playing "Tom Sawyer" on Rock Band on Expert.

God, I miss Rock Band.

 Model: Natalia Vodianova
Hair: Didier Malige
Makeup: Aaron de Mey
Stylist: Grace Coddington
Photographer: Mario Testino
US Vogue July 2005

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ME, to Megan: "How's your story coming?"

MEGAN: "Pretty good. I got seven scenes done last night. Only problem is, I still have to work on the ending."

ME (with special sarcasm filters on): "You know what ending always works? 'And then they woke up.' Foolproof. Ends any story. Easy as pie."

NEIL GAIMAN: "Funny, it took a lot of work for me."

Magazine: Vogue Paris (June/July 2002)
Editorial: Alice dans les Îles
Photographers: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Model: Jessica Miller
Credit: Kanna
NUDITY WARNING

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