then in the bath
and then back in bed
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Lights please!
Did some freshening up of my web site, added some more content. I sent out 7 queries tonight, and query-sending always makes me think about my web site.
Not to mention... I like playing with blogs and web sites. Satisfies some part of my brain... the part that likes to sort and organize things I guess. It's like reorganizing a collection into a new formation, but without the mess.
You see why this scene from High Fidelity speaks to me.
The question remains... am I ready to buy a domain yet?
By the way, if you want to see another example of how a weebly site can look, this is my brother's.
His main page is a blog, and then he has tabs for his various artistic endeavors.
My vair vair creative brother has never been able to settle on one preferred art form to express himself because his soul needs to be heard IN SONG! IN COMIC STRIP! IN BOOK! IN SCRIPT! IN FLASH CARTOON! IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT! IN HUMOUR! IN MOVIE! IN ACTING! It just cannot be contained by one measly medium.
Luckily the internet--that specialist at multi-tasking--has come along to free him from the confines of having to be One Thing. Every day he comes closer to that Perfect Form... like a flash humorous cartoon movie ukulele video with voice acting. (Okay he hasn't combined voice acting and song yet. But he will. ... ... RUSHTY!)
Not to mention... I like playing with blogs and web sites. Satisfies some part of my brain... the part that likes to sort and organize things I guess. It's like reorganizing a collection into a new formation, but without the mess.
You see why this scene from High Fidelity speaks to me.
The question remains... am I ready to buy a domain yet?
By the way, if you want to see another example of how a weebly site can look, this is my brother's.
His main page is a blog, and then he has tabs for his various artistic endeavors.
My vair vair creative brother has never been able to settle on one preferred art form to express himself because his soul needs to be heard IN SONG! IN COMIC STRIP! IN BOOK! IN SCRIPT! IN FLASH CARTOON! IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT! IN HUMOUR! IN MOVIE! IN ACTING! It just cannot be contained by one measly medium.
Luckily the internet--that specialist at multi-tasking--has come along to free him from the confines of having to be One Thing. Every day he comes closer to that Perfect Form... like a flash humorous cartoon movie ukulele video with voice acting. (Okay he hasn't combined voice acting and song yet. But he will. ... ... RUSHTY!)
Zoos? Evils?
The internets... such a strange place.
I was researching the next agency to send a query to, which means I was looking at the authored represented, and recognized one book--Monkey Love by Brenda Scott Royce--which I bought but haven't yet read. So I read the first chapters, and then went to look up her web site, and discovered she's done primate conservation work, and she writes articles on animal issues for the Huffington Post, which led me to a debate between animal activists and a zoo over an elephant, and her interesting argument for zoos.
As she's worked both for sanctuaries and zoos I think her arguments are interesting. That (a) when activists talk about "Free the elephant!" we have to investigate what they mean by free. And (b) free usually means a sanctuary rather than a zoo, but sanctuaries receive less income/funding than zoos and don't have to go through the same strict accreditation process, so animal treatment can be worse than at a zoo. And (c) that while anyone who loves animals would prefer them to be free in the wild, there are fewer and fewer safe wilds left for animals to live in. Which is just depressing.
I was researching the next agency to send a query to, which means I was looking at the authored represented, and recognized one book--Monkey Love by Brenda Scott Royce--which I bought but haven't yet read. So I read the first chapters, and then went to look up her web site, and discovered she's done primate conservation work, and she writes articles on animal issues for the Huffington Post, which led me to a debate between animal activists and a zoo over an elephant, and her interesting argument for zoos.
As she's worked both for sanctuaries and zoos I think her arguments are interesting. That (a) when activists talk about "Free the elephant!" we have to investigate what they mean by free. And (b) free usually means a sanctuary rather than a zoo, but sanctuaries receive less income/funding than zoos and don't have to go through the same strict accreditation process, so animal treatment can be worse than at a zoo. And (c) that while anyone who loves animals would prefer them to be free in the wild, there are fewer and fewer safe wilds left for animals to live in. Which is just depressing.
I'm queery for queries!
I've been slowly putting together and sending out queries this evening, in between bits of cooking, bathing the cat, reading Connie, listening to music, and internetsing.
I've sent out three. Want to do about... 8. Then if they're all rejected I should take a look at my query letter before continuing with the next batch. Or so someone somewhere in something I read suggested.
"If you start me up--if you start me up I'll never stop!"
And once that's done I'll be set free to follow Henry V with a clear conscience. Weee!
I'm using Query Tracker, a free web site for keeping track of who and when you've queried. Nice site.
I've sent out three. Want to do about... 8. Then if they're all rejected I should take a look at my query letter before continuing with the next batch. Or so someone somewhere in something I read suggested.
"If you start me up--if you start me up I'll never stop!"
And once that's done I'll be set free to follow Henry V with a clear conscience. Weee!
I'm using Query Tracker, a free web site for keeping track of who and when you've queried. Nice site.
Diane Birch "Fire Escape"
Heard her on Q one day this winter. Apparently Prince once saw her performing and invited her to come and jam with him.
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