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A few quick footnotes for the floor.

1. The Rosemary and Rue ARC giveaway is still running, from now through Whenever I Happen To Get Up Tomorrow Morning. So assume that I'll be announcing the winner sometime between five and eight AM PST (which is when I'll be coherent enough to deal with complex things like "the random number generator" and "counting").

2. Because I'm doing the drawing so early in the day, if you win, and you're able to get me your mailing address with reasonable alacrity, your ARC may actually go out in tomorrow's mail. I'm just saying.

3. Late Eclipses continues to be finished, which has me rather at lost ends. I figure I'll finish this zombie short story that I'm working on, and then crack open Discount Armageddon, see what Verity and the gang have been up to while I was away. Nothing says "relaxation" like "getting straight to work on a different book."

4. I am officially sick. Thank you, coughing people on my plane and annoying small child whose parents refused to make you stop kicking the back of my seat. Thank you so much.

5. My play list consisting of nothing but versions of the song "Rain King" by the Counting Crows is now two hours long, and incredibly soothing. If you've ever wondered why that song was my current music so much of the time, well...this is why.

6. Zombies are still love.
Tags: discount armageddon, giving stuff away, late eclipses, medical fu, promotion, rosemary and rue, writing, zombies
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#4 is teh suck. Feel better soon.
Working on it.
Worst cold I ever got was after a long flight. Schools and hospitals have nothing on airplanes for spreading all sorts of germs.
They're a perfect fast incubation medium. That's why the premiere episode of Fringe made me giggle so much.
On #5, I have more than a dozen covers of "I Wanna Be Sedated" on mine, same reason. You know, sort of. ;-)

On #4 - Ech. Feel better. I once asked a man Jack I worked with how he was that day; he told me, "I have a cold. The only things that make colds better are Scotch, and complaining about it to everyone who walks by." I have since found that he was right. Feel better!
"Rain King" is basically my favorite song ever, and it just soothes me. Soothingly.

Working on it!
I plot to buy a copy, and I might not if I had the ARC, so I'm being good and not risking it. O:>

(Much condolences on the kicky-kid. Having one of those myself... I alternately am driven crazy, and am completely oblivious, sometimes switching between the states in a matter of heartbeats. (Usually oblivious, then suddenly realizing what that noise/vibration is, then being aggravated and telling her to QUIT IT ALREADY.) We're two sedentary introvert night owls -- how did we get an over-energetic extrovert day lark??? *sob*

Anyway, on behalf of parents who are possibly worn out, you have my humble apologies. I'll try to keep my own free electron from contributing to the general entropy of the universe.)
In that case, thank you. The big concern with ARC giveaways is that you're basically giving books to your "core audience"—the people whose sales you're naturally inclined to count on. Give away too many books and you could do yourself a mischief in the woods.

My main objection to the kicky-kid wasn't his kickiness—I'd be kicky, too, if I were stuck on a six-hour flight without a pile of things to distract myself with—but with the fact that his parents didn't stop him when I asked, or when the cabin attendant asked, and actually glared at me as they left the plane.
Okay, bad parenting slap to them. O:p I would be mortified if anyone had to ask me to get the kid to stop kicking, yes, but that means I would be profusely apologizing! To be asked twice, once by a cabin attendant? Good gads. They're going to get exactly what they deserve when their speshul snowflake is a teenager, like as not.

Poor kid. (And poor you, too!)
Yeah. I mean, kids are kids, and expecting "adult" behavior out of them isn't just senseless, it's mean. But that doesn't mean I don't occasionally expect adult intervention to come into the picture.
Re # 5 - I find myself collecting covers of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Sadly, I can't find a faster cover of his original lyrics, just the covers of the Jeff Buckley version. But I understand the long playlist of just one song.
I wonder if such a cover exists. Huh.
I hope there is. The Cohen version is a totally different song - the extra lyrics spin the song into a different direction. But it's very slow, and not good to walk to.

What verse are you specifically trying to find?
These two are the Cohen lyrics that none of the others have -

"You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah



I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah"


It gives it the "love is worth trying for feel" versus, well, that just sucked feel of the Wainright versus.
Wild Mercy covers the song on their second album, Furious Fancies. I know they include the first of those two verses, and I'm pretty sure they cover the second. (Album link is to the page on CDBaby.)
Helpful cat is helpful! Yay!
Today, you are my hero!
<blushes bashfully>

Aw, shucks, 't weren't nothin'.

Besides, which, somebody obviously is watching their trackbacks, so have not only a rec but the lead singer! <points down at tollers>
Seanan gave me a heads-up about the thread, so of course I had to bop over and see what was up.

Thanks for the recommendation! :-) See you at Duckon?
Yep, we do both of those verses. :-)

Heh... and now it's stuck in my head, 'cause I had to pull the recorded version up and make sure we'd actually recorded those two. (We did.)

I don't know how to sing that song other than at the top of my lungs, so I think I'll go scare the neighbors while I work in the flower beds...
Aaaaand that's _so_ not the CD cover icon I meant to pick. Apparently I should be more careful what I name my icons!
Media money will go there this month.


Yay! This makes me happy. :-)