Merry Christmas everyone!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul
HOORAY!!!

I really hate the private thing though. I hate being forced to buy insurance. But I'm happy reform is happening. But what has me MOST pissed off is the abortion clause. Republicans don't want abortion to be public ally funded. Now, I know I will get a lot of flac for this, but CMON. EVRYTHING else is funded through the gov't. Rehab, for instance. I don't personally agree with abortion. But I will fight to the death for a woman's right to chose.

Anyway, I got to get ready for WORKIN time. I promise to update more later while at work this evening :)

Thank you japanesedream for the awesome socks!! These are like in the top three pairs of socks that I own for awesomeness! XD (in case it's not obvious, those are groovy mushrooms all over them, folks!!)



As a bonus, Voudoun agreed to be photographed actually looking at the camera, so I can't resist posting a pic.

BONUS POINTS if you can find the other cat in the background!

No, it's not by Weird Al.

Wow, that end of year meme that's going around is hard! I can't remember anything this year!

I'll make my book list instead. Several of these are books I have read once before (Machen,Hodgson) and several I did not in fact finish quite yet as of this writing (those are at the end). There are a few others that I started and abandoned, but I didn't list those.

I expect next year my list will be very short because I plan to read a couple of 1,000-plus page short story collections, and POSSIBLY just MAYBE try to read Finnegan's Wake, just a little. Maybe. With a reader's guide. I might need some hand-holding if anyone wants to come along.

Stanislaw Lem - The Futurological Congress
Doris Lessing - Canopus in Argos: Shikasta (I started this in late Dec. 2008 so I included it in last year's list too...don't judge me!!)
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
Steve Almond - Candy Freak
Philip K Dick - The Zap Gun
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths
Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine
Felipe Fernández-Armesto - Near a Thousand Tables
Steve Martin - Born Standing Up
Alan Moore - Watchmen (yeah it's a graphic novel but there are a lot of words!)
Natalie Angier - The Canon - A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
HP Lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Marcus Chown - The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Never-Ending Universe
Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Arthur Machen - The Three Imposters and other stories
William Hope Hodgson - House on the Borderland
Arthur Machen - The White People and other stories
William Hope Hodgson - The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sign of the Four
Michio Kaku - Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories (I didn't read every single story...)
Greg Bear - Blood Music
Clifford Simak - City
Peter Dickinson - The Devil's Children
Eric Bunde - Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
Carl Honore - In Praise of Slowness
Fred Pearce - Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Tom Zoellner - Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
Robert Van Gulik - The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
Jeremy Bernstein - Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
Robert Val Gulik - The Chinese Gold Murders
HG Wells - A Dream of Armageddon (short story collection)
David A. Kessler - The End of Overeating (this was NOT a diet book, ok?)
Elisa Parsons - The Castle of Wolfenbach
Bram Stoker - Return from the Dead (Jewel of Seven Stars and other mummy stories)
Alice and Claude Askew - Aylmer Vance: Ghost Seer
Mrs. Carter - The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
Marjorie Bowen - The Bishop of Hell and other stories
A.C. and R.H. Benson - The Temple of Death and other stories
Jennifer 8. Lee - The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Edith Nesbitt - Tales of Terror
D.K. Broster - Couching at the Door
Ellen Ruppel Shell - Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
Gertrude Atherton - The Bell in the Fog
Alain Robbe-Grillet - In The Labyrinth (still reading)
Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan (started to re-read but got sidetracked)
James Joyce - Ulysses (I'm taking my sweet time reading it again, along with a reader's guide)
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (just barely started this one)

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this one however is for sale. it's 6 x 8 and i already forget the name that i gave it but it's pretty goofy!

i didn't put it up for sale or anything but here is my new crazy painting based on a couple of key images from my crazy dream that i had recently. the lady and the whole sun/moon thing are just my standard issue crazy though, with a sort of non-specific tarot/alchemy influence.

i am really enjoying the fact that i have gone full-blown batshit crazy this year.

I'd liked to have done more on this but all of my detail brushes are all messed up and I really hate buying $5 brushes every other week only to have them just last through one painting! I wish I knew what I was doing sometimes, I really do!

Lj ate this post twice. I'm going to wait for a little bit, before I post again.        

Okay, let's make a third try at this post.

As requested by mooglosaurus , I'm doing a further design discussion on my white fox and the White Rabbit costumes.  For the coat that I'm thinking of. I'm commissioning a mash up of these two Taobao coats.


( Zoop, Zoop )Now, with the White Rabbit, being that part of the design is being taken from the white fox will have some similarity such as sharing the above coat. My idea for the color scheme of the White Rabbit is white/silver/grey/heather. But, I recently saw some inspiring drawings of White Rabbit in the color scheme of white and blue.
 
( Abeyoyo, Abeyoyo )           

So, all in all, I'm amazed by what beautiful result I'm getting from an idea coming to life. Now, I'm getting ideas on what I would like to wear as pants options, short pants, cropped pants, or dress trousers.

Wishing you all light and warmth on the longest night of of the year and a safe journey on the road to the rebirth of the Sun.



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