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The worst part of having a three-day weekend is getting Monday's work done by Tuesday afternoon. I don't even have the time to be charmingly inept at anything in order to entertain people this morning. :D

I do have some updates though. First off, I totally let this RFM item slip and it's a bit time-sensitive so I thought I'd make sure it got attention: Sweetgadget had their car die due to a hydro-lock engine from a flash flood. They can't afford to fix it and can't get to work without it, so they're looking for help to get their car repaired and offering podfic in exchange.

Also, The Dead Isle's Gutenberg page with the free PDF download is now up and running. GUTENBERG APPROVES OF ME! \o/

I made pizza casserole over the weekend. It came out...delicious...looking...

And I have posted my thoughts on this year's Pulitzer Prize foofarah over on Extribulum.

At some point I'm going to make a post about trying to identify where the number of social media platforms I broadcast on crosses (crossed?) over from professional to absurd. I can't even tell if it's happened yet but I'm pretty sure it's Tumblr's fault if it did.

(This post brought to you by that awkward moment when you realise you walked away from your desk while a website proudly proclaiming itself to be WONTON SLUTS was up on one of your monitors. Hey look, I totally had time to be charmingly inept after all.)

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Jeremy Renner has this thing where it seems like in every interview he gives, he tells one vastly inappropriate story. Like the time someone switched his Ambien with Viagra, or the time he was his mother's birth coach. I find it oddly charming. I'm about 60% sure he does it on purpose.

The hot link of the moment that literally four people just sent me (and thank you, don't think I'm not grateful) is the trailer for his new film, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. It looks a bit like Van Helsing meets Brothers Grimm meets Wild Wild West. As the i09 article points out, it's highly anachronistic to populate what looks like late medieval Germany with gatling guns, though to be fair weaponry in history was often more advanced than we think. And we handwave this shit in Steampunk all the time; anachronistic tech is basically what Cyberpunk is based on.

You know what this is? This and The Huntsman and all the rest of the recent legend adaptations? It's faeriepunk.

And frankly while it looks like a terrible film and normally I'm sick of the derivative nature of Hollywood, I kind of love the concept. FAERIEPUNK.

I'mma write a faeriepunk story about the Cottingley Fairies and how Elsie and Frances grew up to be badass witches battling the Thule Society during WWII.