Describe yourself: Tie between The Warded Man and Warbreaker.

How do you feel: Kitty Raises Hell.

Describe where you currently live: The City and the City.

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Alexandria or Avempartha.

Your favorite form of transport: Mean Streets.

Your best friend is: The Patriot Witch.

You and your friends are: Wyrd Sisters.

What’s the weather like: In the Courts of the Sun.

Favorite time of day: The Sun Over Breda.

If your life was a: Palimpsest.

What is life to you: Tides from the New Worlds.

Your fear: The Last Unicorn.

What is the best advice you have to give: The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.

Thought for the Day: The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche.

How I would like to die: The Hero of Ages.

My soul’s present condition: Santa Olivia or A Kiss Before the Apocalypse.

A while back I got into a small disagreement with a few friends in TTTNE over declawing cats. A couple people made some offhand remarks about declawing being cruel. Then I mentioned that my family had always gotten the front paws of our cats declawed. It kind of went downhill from there. It wasn't a major fight like in General Chatter, it was just a argument between friends, but I did feel like I was being treated like a war criminal.

The truth is that I've never gotten cats declawed myself. Every cat we ever got were when I was young so my parents made the decision or the cats had already been declawed when we got them. I did some research recently hoping to prove my friends wrong, but now it turns out that I was wrong. I had always thought the operation simply removed the claws, I didn't know it also cut off the first part of the toe.

Wonderful, now I feel like a war criminal and an idiot. Fan-fucking-tastic. At least now I know the truth and can make a more informed decision.

Iowa Supreme Court rules gay ban unconstitutional. 

I gotta say that there are days that I'm proud to be an Iowan.  One was when Obama won the caucus, another was today.  Great news! 

I know I don't update very often so I think it's past time to mention my latest project. Last year I wrote a short story as part of a friendly competition. It was fun and the story turned out interesting so I made a New Year's resolution that I would start writing this year. Hardly surprising since so many of us have writing aspirations. Well, last night I finished my second story.

The story was my first real serious attempt at writing, featuring zombies and immortals if you can believe it. It's hopelessly derivative; savvy readers ought to be able to recognize elements of two movies and at least two to three authors. It was based on a dream I had so I just blame my subconscious (the zombie part I actually blame on Emma :P). I've decided to set aside some time to do a little bit of writing every week. I have ideas for at least another six or seven short stories. For now, I'm going to follow GRRM's advice and stick to short forms before trying something longer. Besides, as a man of few words, I need to learn to be more verbose. ;)

Okay, something a little different today. This is the theme song from the show Enterprise. I've always thought it was odd that a lot people said they did not like. I really enjoy it and I think it fits the show perfectly.

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I haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire yet but I saw the musical performance last night at the Oscars and I bought the soundtrack today. This is "Jai Ho".

Okay, something a little different this time. "Shiny Happy People" by R.E.M.

Phil Collins is one of my favorite. This is "Another Day in Paradise."