postcards and steampunk. Oh, and politics

[la_belle_laide]

Just today I received the postcard from DAW to let me know that they had received my manuscript and logged it into their files. Uhh, cool! Now I just have to wait for the second rejection. It's a shame it takes so damn long; I'm all psyched to print the 399 pages up again and go through the whole "pack it away and send it out" thing again.

Not really.

So I may or may not have ever mentioned, but the setting is alternate reality quasi-Victorian and the other morning I woke up from a dream thinking, "When people say 'steampunk' they probably mean like sci-fi in the time when things ran on steam. You wrote steampunk, stupid." Not that I think it's stupid because it's quite neat; I just never knew what steampunk meant and well, now I do and I had no idea that something like this had a niche.

Neato.

Oh, there was one more thing I wanted to add re: Sara Palin as McCain's running mate.

McCain is playing a cagey-ass game for sure. I was watching his speech (GUH! but you do have to know the other side,) and I saw someone in the audience hold up a sign that said "Hillary's Supporter's For McCain" and I was like, WTF! WTF! WTMFF!

Okay, because first of all: One would hope that Hillary's supporters weren't supporting her just because she is a woman. People have to remember that Palin is anti-choice, and most importantly that McCain is going to follow policies that Bush has set. It should have nothing to do with gender--and indeed, nothing to do with your personal feelings toward the candidates at this point!--and everything to do with policies.

If you don't like Bush's policies, you have to vote them out, and that means voting for Obama even if you don't like the guy!

If you like Bush, if you like the way things are going now, then vote for McCain or don't vote at all.

Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, right?

And secondly, I think the person with that sign was planted there. How the hell did they know in advance to make up that sign to bring to his speech, huh? Yeah, that's right, they couldn't. Up until lats night McCain had a decoy dude pretending to pull all of his public appearances for today so that people would think it was him instead of her.

Cagey-ass game.

PLEASE let him lose.

Comments

[skitty-kitty.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine said it best, watch out for the vagina voters. Those who're only voting for Hilary because she's a woman, and now will flock to Sarah because she's an innie.

Def. not a fan of this woman, just for her environmental policies alone. Blegh.

[shonagonchan.livejournal.com]

The vagina voters! That's perfect.

One would like to think that the vagina voters would be more concerned with the government being all up in their own vaginas than having one in office.

[reanimated.livejournal.com]

the clintons for mccain thing is pretty much a manufactured 'story.' few liberals in the blogosphere doubt that they are actually republicans.

[skitty-kitty.livejournal.com]

Good, that's what I was hoping for. I want to believe people who believed in Hilary couldn't possibly stand to vote for this woman.

[shonagonchan.livejournal.com]

Let us hope that McCain has wildly miscalculated this one and that it is really not All About The Vag.

[reanimated.livejournal.com]

if you see videos of these purported converts, they sound like complete idiots and like to repeat neocon talking points. the dem party doesn't want them anyway.