Archive for 2007

The sun is coming up. I’ve been working all day and I still have work to do. I had to do a convention this week and I’m still getting over a cold, so I think I’m going to call it a day regardless. Time to eat some Indian food leftovers spicy enough to blast my sicky sinuses, read or watch something or other, and go the heck to sleep.

What Top 10 List are you most qualified to compile for 2006?

I did a Top 10 Sexiest of 2006 for Blue Blood, but I ran out of gas after Anderson Cooper and Vladimir Putin.

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What thoughts would you like to unthink?

Sometimes I find out something I thought was cool or good somehow is not as cool or good as I had thought. Sometimes knowledge is more discomfort than power. Sometimes I would like to unthink those things.

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On what do you spend too much money?

Books, iced lattes, and gourmet food in general.

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Sweet or Sour? What’s your favorite thing to suck on?

Got to love those really sour candies that make my tongue bleed if I eat a bunch of them.

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I am really grateful for all the kind people I know, both in real life and digitally.

I’m mostly over being sick and my hair looks nice, so I guess I have no reason not to go to the convention tonight. I’m probably on my way to hang out with drunken pals and watch half-naked go-go boys and I’m acting like it is a chore. LOL I mean, it is, but it isn’t.

Part of me still wants hot cocoa and a cozy blankie instead.

So Blue Blood finally made it into Wired. I’ve been giving Wired and people who work for Wired comps since approximately 1993. Sometimes because they requested free stuff and sometimes because I was lead to believe they would do coverage of Blue Blood and sometimes just because I really admire their contributor list, which includes William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

So imagine my excitement when I found out that, after all these years, Blue Blood was on Wired. It was the web site and not the print publication and I told myself it was probably just a small mention, maybe one sentence of press as part of a larger article. I didn’t want to get my hopes up too much. I’d been disappointed in the past, when Wired ran articles where Blue Blood’s existence and accomplishments would have been pertinent, but my stuff was never mentioned. I’ve wracked my brain so much, trying to figure it out, that I even worried that maybe a Bruce Sterling interview I fucked up on in like 1992 or 1993 was a problem. (I doubt it is.)

When I rushed over to Wired to see what they said, my heart just fell through the bottom of my stomach.

So I’m totally depressed now. You can read what ForrestBlack had to say about it, right when we first saw the Wired coverage of Blue Blood, on BlueBlood.net and you can see a screenshot of the article as well.

In my fantasies, a legion of my friends and compatriots march on Wired and on that article and set them straight. All I’m going to ask for, however, is that some of you all give me your impressions and a kind word. I’d like to do a round-up of other people’s impressions, with or without attribution as you all desire.

Sometimes it makes me so crazy, still being the underdog after fifteen years, having large corporations want to hold me back. But, after fifteen years of surviving every dirty trick big business and petty individuals could bring to bear, you’d think that they would all accept that Blue Blood is here to stay and try to make peace.

I don’t want to be sick. I have stuff to do.

I’m really happy with this series because I feel like we really managed to capture some of Voltaire‘s Marilyn Monroe quality, something I’ve wanted to do with her for a long time. You can see NSFW samples on the Blue Blood forums.

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What do you do when you think someone is your friend, but they kinda talk bad about other people pretty often? Especially if some of those other people think they are friends with the person, I know I wonder what that person says about me, when I am not there.

What do you do if you think someone like that is your friend, but you start hearing rumors to the contrary? Do you accept that a person like that just talks trash about their friends, but still likes their friends? Do you write the person off? Do you confront them? What if you confront them and they tell you they are all good with you, but you hear rumors to the contrary?

I just don’t know how to parse out that sort of behavior, when a supposed friend treats me or others that way. I don’t know what to make of it.

by ForrestBlack

I think it’s unfortunate that one of the down sides of living in pretty much any interesting area or city is that, if you are there long enough, the notion that it just isn’t as cool and fun as it used to be is nearly inescapable. It’s really difficult not to fall into a bit of a rut when you see stores you used to enjoy close down, clubs you used to have a great time at are gone, friends that used to be the life of the party have settled down or just become such monumental losers that you don’t want to see them anyway. It’s hard not to feel like you should just uproot yourself and move to greener pastures sometimes. I know I’ve felt like that in a number of areas I’ve lived. Lately, a lot of my Los Angeles friends have been sharing their general ennui on this subject as well. So, I thought I might share one technique that I’ve found that can kind of help shake things up a little. Just pretend you are visiting. Give yourself a week to do all those things you’d only do if you were actually from out of town. Read the local weekly paper and actually go to everything that piques your interest. You’ll be surprised at just how much fun is actually going on right around you.

Just the other day I was feeling kinda bleh and . . .

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Scar 13 doing Superna’s makeup. NSFW samples from series here. Whole set at BlueBlood.com.

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