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I miss my old journal theme - which is no longer available since they updated the system. Oh well, change is good I guess. Tried to find a similar one - but it played havoc with the comments thread.
I may change again - my criteria is rather simple - "interesting and readable - without making me go blind" and minimalistic. How most of my friends read their lj's without going blind is beyond me.
You guys must not spend as much time as I do reading a computer screen? Or if you do...you have better eyes.

Music and Neil Gaiman

Feeling a bit culturally compulsive tonight - also bored of my television choices, so I read Neil Gaiman's journal and decided to ask him a question on his Doctor Who episode. He's taking questions. Mine aren't great and I'm hoping he didn't answer similar one's elsewhere. The first was about process - the degree to which Stephen Moffat and the show-runner contributes or influences a writer's episode and how much of it was influenced by Moffat to maintain the arc. The second was how he writes - what the jumping off point is - a specific theme or a character - ie. The Tardis. See, not great questions, but I was bored.

( me and my weird music tastes and current addiction to downloading tunes from itunes, which I am stopping now! There has to be a free downloading music site somewhere on the net. )

Speaking of Repulsive? Read in the Metro that novelist Jonathan Lethem moved to LA from NYC, because NYC is repulsive with novelists. He's not wrong. In the last ten years - it seems as if anyone who ever got an MFA in Creative Writing or wanted one has moved to the city. I've never seen so many writer's meetup groups in my life.