Beware of Turtle!

It's just after midnight and I've finished the first of my two papers due tomorrow.  I'm skipping the pills I normally take that are supposed to help me sleep through the night and drinking strong tea.  If I manage to finish by 4am I'll be shocked and delighted.  Any of you lj-peoples awake out there?  If so, are you  bored enough to read a 3 page paper on pantoums and let me know if I said anything incomprehensible?  What about letting me bounce paragraphs off of you for my other paper to make sure they actually make sense?  I'm um... not expecting many takers, but yeah... if you are about and want company, email me:  dreaded.night.turtle@gmail.com or message me on one of the various messenger id's I've got running.  It's going to be a long night.

Two days lost to migraine with two papers due on Monday = no dancing for turtles.  :(

This is a link to DriveThruRPG's Haiti relief package:  http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/rpg_haiti.php?src=haiti&page=1

It's a software package of over a hundred RPG books that have been donated by their various publishers.  All proceeds from the sales go to Doctors without Borders.  I scanned through it:  nothing in there is particularly major (none of the big names seem to have been that interested in coughing up freebies, but a lot of cute fringe companies have given some nice stuff).  There's also some pretty neat bits like paper models of nuclear power plants, comic book collections, hand-drawn dungeons, etc.   Most things in there aren't worth more than .99 but the Serenity RPG core rules is pretty nifty (and last I checked it was still being sold as a $30 dead tree) as are several other cute bits for things like Spycraft and various modules created to work cross platform with multiple game systems.

If you are a gamer, or know one, this is worth the $20 and the money goes to a very good cause. 

Please pass the word to anyone who might care.  :)

maybe it's the sleep deprivation...

http://faultline.org/index.php/site/item/incendiary/

the fark comments commenting on the comments were over 800 (that's on fark, not on the original post fark linked to)

just... wow

oh internets, I love you and all of your fucked up self aware clogged tubes

Do any of you on my friends list who are poetically inclined write pantoums?  Got any published?  I'm going to be presenting on the pantoum as a poetic form next week and if I want to use an example not in the book, I must give out a copy of it at my class tomorrow.  I don't like any of the ones in the book.  If you have a pantoum up somewhere, I'd love the link.  I will be writing up the presentation on paper for the week after and you'll get a copy.  As well, if you've got a dead tree (or a fake electronic dead tree) on Amazon, I could put the stuff related to your specific poem up as a review.  If you have a pantoum and it's not online but you'd still like to let me use it (and you're willing to let me make 8 copies of it for a grad seminar) email me the text of the poem (dreaded.night.turtle@gmail.com).

If you have no clue wtf I'm talking about, and want to know wtf I'm talking about, go here to be enlightened:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantoum

To a They Might be Giants Song even :)

http://www.vimeo.com/6505105

It's... very Roman... in a Shakespeare kinda way.

SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY

     Every word we write is a breath -- perhaps our last -- against oblivion.
All books are merely delayed dust.
Culture is space and time organized into sensible forms.
Post-modernism is the guilty conscience of modernism.
The lyric sequence is the epitaph of the epic.
Form is as form does.
The child's first cry is the first song.
Make it beautiful.
The secret is to sing.

~George Elliott Clarke, Introduction to Whylah Falls

This is one of my textbooks.  :)