Halloween

So I took the kids around the neighborhood yesterday, since, you know, it's wrong to celebrate Satan's Birthday on Sunday. I live in the sort of area where you don't check candy for tampering. You go through and remove all the tracts before they can poison the impressionable young minds.

The kids were cute, and the neighbors thought Dollface was darling. They made a good haul, and following my standard policy, may eat all they want until tomorrow. After tomorrow, it's pooled, and doled out. Guess what, that will be a whole 4 suckers.

Cold still has me on the run.

I read a lot of the Monsters and Myths anthology. It's good. Really good. Torquere Press puts it out. $10 for a CD, not too bad. El Chupacabra, incubi, werewolves, centaurs, nightmares. All excellent. I may have to order one for my sister.

Vids are gone to Eclecticon and BASCon. Hope they like 'em.

Tomorrow, NaNoWriMo starts!
First up, a Spock/McCoy historical AU involving Vikings, druids and sidhe.

Meditations before voting

Some Meditations Before You Vote
by Stuart S. Light

This campaign season has been marked with a high degree of partisanship and rancor in the discourse leading up to Tuesday's presidential election. Both sides, armed with focus groups and experts, have crafted messages gilded with oversimplifications and spurious "facts."
Logic, common sense and truth scatter like dust before the powerful and well-financed marketing machines roaring across the landscape. My advice? Take time to reflect on what is truly important, and let your own intelligence and compassion guide your decisions.

Here's some food for thought before you vote:

Democrat, Republican, Green, Independent, Libertarian, left, right, center, liberal, moderate, conservative, rich, poor, gay, straight, black, white, brown, male, female, pro-life, pro-choice — we're a mixed bag, but we're all Americans.

No individual, party or ideology has cornered the market on truth or God's blessing.

Dying soldiers in all countries call for their mothers with their last breath.

Any child killed by war, poverty, abuse or neglect is one too many.

Fear is our worst enemy. Those who would scare us are not our friends.

9/11 was a tragic event. But everything did not change. The sad fact is, too much has remained the same, or gotten worse.

Killing innocents in any war dishonors those who died on 9/11

Those most distant from a conflict are always the ones shouting loudest for war.

War is almost always a tragic detour from the more difficult road of peace.

Anyone who impugns your patriotism for exercising your constitutional right to free speech is not a patriot. In a true democracy, all points of view are valued and heard.

Love is the core value of the Islamic, Christian and Jewish faiths. Only love and understanding can bring the peace and security all good people of the world desire.
Every vote counts, and every vote should be counted.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1030-25.htm

Last Year, and the year before

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