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What is happening indeed!

I will be at the Topatoco Open House and Awkward Stare-Fest this weekend! You should come say hi! It will be a PARTY.

See you tomorrow.

I left Friday morning to be in my friend's wedding across the country and got home today. I was in the bathroom taking a poo when I realized that between the eight hours eating nothing but airline peanuts and granola bars, and the fast food, and the wedding stress, and the ham-egg-and-cheese sandwich this morning, I had not pooped since at LEAST Thursday.

I have had three very impressive bowel movements today. I feel MUCH BETTER now.

Parris will soon be on her way home to take care of the cats, before they start rioting and have wild parties. So I'm pressing on by myself. Arrived in London a few hours ago. Signing at Forbidden Planet on the 11th.

So I had just gotten home from work and REALLY needed to take a poo. The way my house is set up is that the staircase to get the second floor is in the kitchen. At the top of the stairs to your right is the bathroom. I had been talking to my mother in the kitchen before the OMG GOTTA POOP NOW feeling hit. So I went upstairs to go to the bathroom. I'm enjoying the first satisfying poop in a month, when all of a sudden the bathroom door flies open. My twenty pound hunk of cat is standing in the doorway, looking utterly confused... and then I hear the maniacal laughter coming from the kitchen.
"You watched that unfold, didn't you?" I yelled down to my mother while still trying to poop.
"You're damn right I did!" she yelled back in between gasps for air.

There went my satisfying poop. :( Though the cat is cute, so I guess it's okay.

Well, if anyone wants them. I have the complete set of B5 micromachines, all six, in the packages. Please let me know if anyone wants them together or separately.

Thanks.

Washington Post dropped by Kiss Kiss Bang Bang they took some really nice shots and wrote up a review of the venue, Little Miss Whiskey's Golden Dollar.

If you haven't checked Miss Whiskey's tonight is a great time to drop by as I'm spinning Alter Ego with Franke Death. Hey, and if you're hungry Horace & Dickie’s Seafood Carryout - as featured on Man Vs. Food - is right down the block.

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Woo latest comic ever. Next week should be less tardy, schedule-wise. See you then!

And here we are in Dublin. Ireland has been exciting but exhausting. We had a huge turnout last night for the signing at Eason's, with a queue that seemed to go on forever, but I finally scrawled everyone into submission, and afterwards I signed all the stock as well. If you missed the signing, or happen to live a thousand leagues away, you can still get an autographed copy of the SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH hardcover or any of the Ice & Fire paperbacks by phoning, emailing, or dropping by Eason's on O'Connell Street. They even have a few trade paperbacks of DREAMSONGS.

Afterwards we adjourned to a nearby pub for a lively evening of Guinness and conversation with the local fans. I met the good folk who will be running next year's Octocon, where I'll be GOH, and hoisted a few with the hardy survivors of the Eason's event. Didn't stagger back to the our hotel till after midnight, by which time Temple Bar was roaring. Ah, if only I were twenty years younger...

The Belfast event on Tuesday was also a hoot and a half. The crowd was much bigger at Dublin, but in Belfast some of the cast of the HBO pilot dropped by to sign books and meet the fans as well. My thanks to Ron Donachie, Richard Madden (Best Dressed Man in Scotland), Alfie Allen, Kit Harington, Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner (and their moms) for joining the festivities. And to the lovely Ros, Esme Bianco, who dropped by McHughes afterwards for the moot. Matthew Hughes, one of the authors who contributed to our Vance tribute anthology, also turned up at Eason's to help me sign SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH.

In between signing and mooting, I've been hanging round the shoot, trying not to get underfoot. "How is it going?" everyone wants to know. I think it's going great. Wednesday's location was amazing, so real I could hardly tell where the real castle ended and our fake castle began. I saw Bran and Tommen swatting at each other in the yard, Joffrey taunting Robb, the Hound growling at Ser Rodrik, while Arya displayed her wretched needlework to Jon above, and it all looked wonderful. Saw some of the footage from the crypts too, and that looked amazing as well. Yes, some things are not exactly as they were in the books, that's inevitable with any adaptation... but these are my characters and this is my story, and it's thrilling to see 'em come to life.

Last night in Belfast I got to meet two more of the cast, quite unexpectedly. Some of the Moroccan players were in Ireland for costume fittings. I ran into Ian McNeice for a brief moment outside the hotel, as we were waiting for our rides, and the night before we bumped into Dany -- the amazing Tamzin Merchant, who is even more beautiful in person than she is on screen -- into the dining room. What a terrific cast Nina Gold has assembled.

Also toured the Paint Hall, though we didn't do any shooting there while I was in Belfast. Some of our sets are going up, and look great. And in another part of the building the huge castle sets from the big budget (compared to us, anyway) feature YOUR HIGHNESS are still standing. Their great hall is pretty eye-popping and they built an impressive castle yard as well.

Tomorrow I'm off to London . Signing at Forbidden Planet on the 11th, Then it's off to Marrakech.

Life is magical and full of joy (but no, I have not been seeking out football scores, so don't tell me. TIVO is getting all my games).

I'm reasonably large chested, but this has never happened before. I have this bright red rash under my breasts and between them. It stings AND itches, though I'm doing my best not to scratch.  It's been there several days, but in the last couple of days it's started getting really dry and peeling in patches... I'm putting lotion on but it doesn't seem to be helping. Any thoughts?

The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.

Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

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Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.

Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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