The Lost Marvel Team-Up: Spider-Man and Planned Parenthood!

For serious. If reading sixteen pages of comics scans is too much effort for you, then just check out "What the Facts Are":

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Liz Miller and the Overpacked Suitcase

So I am all packed up and ready for 'Con. In fact, I am PACKED TO THE GILLS. The rarely acknowledged girly part of my brain kicked into overdrive, which meant that I am bringing every possible toiletry, not to mention TWO DRESSES. Giving that I wear around one dress a month, this is really strange. I ended up using my big backpack, the one I've lived out of for three weeks at a time. It is STUFFED FULL.

For those of you who have finished Deathly Hallows, this article contains all the details that didn't make it into the epilogue. You know, the crap we care about.

I liked the book, for the record. It was a fun exciting read. And even though it did every single one of the things I was hoping it wouldn't do, it didn't piss me off at all. THAT is an accomplishment.

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Please explain Ron Paul to me.

Specifically explain who he is, and why the Internet cares, and why I don't.

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Random thoughts

Accumulated items from my day:

• How to turn Liz off a movie starring Hugh Laurie and Adrian Lester and Matthew McFayden -- make it about a screenwriter who decides to write about the plot of the movie to conquer his writer's block. Oh, how I hate scripts that don't bother to exceed that first level of postmodernity. This means YOU, Maybe Baby.
  
• I cannot pick what I want my new buddy chat icon to be. This has been bugging me ALL MORNING.
  
• Writing is going well. New TV stuff with Jonestown is rocking, I did some very satisfying screenwriting for a friend recently, and I'm finally getting a chance to write a one-act play about time travel. This'll look fantastic on my filmography, next to the one-act play about a zombie apocalypse.
  
• The sheer fact of the matter is that I am EXCITED about writing, and doing it pretty well. This is an exciting change from that month we call June.
  
• Officially open to suggestions on what I should write my next Bookslut column about. Book adaptations! Whoo.
  
• Over the course of April-June, I lost about five or ten pounds, I think -- exercise and losing my appetite and being sick and a hundred other things, but all of it pretty much unconscious. Now that I'm all sleek, of course, I want to KEEP that weight off, but now that I'm paying attention of course I'm having the worst time of it. Right before Comic-Con, too!
  
• Comic-Con's this weekend! Excellent. Who's going? And more importantly -- where the party at?
  
• Fixed the buddy chat icon problem! I am now Simpsons Liz. Very swank.
  
• In the course of making my Simpsons avatar, it came to my attention that I haven't been actively wearing my glasses in a while. Maybe it's because I've been going to see fewer movies. Or maybe my vision got better? Probably not that last thing.
  
• How not to lose weight: all you can eat sushi for lunch.
  
• How to make life worth living: all you can eat sushi for lunch.
  
• How not to have a blog: update it once a week.

Labels: in which our heroine, projects:writing

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Sometimes, it's the little things...

...that make life worth living:

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Work, write, drink, repeat

So after a long week of working, writing, and drinking, I worked, wrote, and drank all weekend as well, and thus I am rung out like a wet rag and very excited about sleeping a great deal tonight.

But in an effort to keep this blog semi-up-to-date, please note the following:

• Last week, someone was so kind as to give me a beta of Skitch/mySkitch, which is seriously the greatest little software app I've seen in a while. It does screen grabs, upon which you can instantly draw, resize and edit. Then you can either upload said images with one click to your web space, or drag and drop them onto your desktop. All with an incredibly easy-to-use interface. I cannot WAIT until I get more invites to share with people. It's so awesome.
• For someone who claims not to be too jazzed about Harry Potter, I sure am maintaining a mental count--down to midnight on Friday.
• This weekend has been a good weekend for finding obscure British television written by writers I like quite a bit. Paul Abbott! Donna Franceschild! Yes!
• But on the subject of non-obscure British teleivison: anyone else watching Steven Moffat's Jekyll?
• While I was doing all this work this weekend, I managed to watch two discs of Simpsons Season 5 (thanks Paul). You know what? That show is pretty spectacular, still. I need to watch a little Season 4 next. Oh, Monorail!
• And in conclusion: are you supposed to be working right now? Well, then, do not click this link. Really. Don't.

Labels: great britain, in which our heroine, teacher mother secret lover

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THE GREATEST OBITUARY EVER: Count Gottfried von Bismarck

Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.

And it just gets better...

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Actors I Had Forgotten Were In Street Fighter (1994)

From IMDB: Raul Julia! Ming-Na! Jean-Claude Van Damme! Kylie Minogue! I mean, Kylie Minogue! WTF OMG!

I'm still kind of not on my game. I'm totally behind on all media and actual work, and an alarming portion of my day has been spent trying to figure out the name of the song used in the first five minutes of last night's 4400. I haven't finished watching the episode. I fell asleep before the end of the first act. But that song haunts me. Stupid song.

Other things I'm putting on notice:

• Jesus metaphors
• Lack of sleep
• Not being on vacation yet
• Having my first real vacation in six months consist, essentially, of this Thursday and Friday afternoons
• Jesus metaphors
• All this work that needs to get done
• Jesus metaphors all mixed up with a Tinkerbell pastiche
• This new compulsion to speak entirely in acronyms
• Unsatisfying resolutions to storylines about unrequited love
• Not having any time to watch the last two episodes of Steven Moffat's Jekyll
• Not having any time to start working on my one-act play about time travel
• Lack of sleep
• Not yet being on vacation
• SERIOUSLY. Jesus metaphors.

Things that are good:

• Sleep
• Shok
• EDITED TO ADD: Alex's Ever-Growing List of The Top 25 Action Movies Of All Time.
• Time travel
• Vacation

See y'all after the 4th. Happy America Day! Eat some pie.

Labels: in which our heroine, media matters

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