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My customary routine when I get to work each morning is to get water, meditate for about thirty minutes with the headspace meditation app, and then get maybe a cup of tea, and log in to check email. I check work and personal. Work was boring. I checked personal - which mainly spam, but there was an email from Illona Andrews blog (she's an urban fantasy writer who for the most part, writes an entertaining blog - it's less marketing and more on the informational/entertainment side. Mainly because she writes it not some marketing rep.)
This email talked about a PINK HOUSE. It's a $500,000, 1970's track home in Trenton, NJ, with a large backyard, no landscaping. Painted white and pink.
In the University Heights area near Princeton.
So curious, I clicked on the link and clicked through all the photos...and as I did, my jaw slowly dropped. Particularly on this picture:
It's a picture of Janet Leigh screaming on a see through pink shower curtain, the whole bathroom is pink. It is basically Barbie meets 1960s pop, in psychedelic pink.
( Read more... )
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Other than that? Work was beyond boring. ( Read more... )
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Making my way through PenPal which reads like a childhood memoir intertwined with creepy horror bits here and there - as a through thread.
Told from the perspective of an adult attempting relay vague memories of his childhood. It's an interesting narrative style, reminds me a little of King's the Body, except not quite as tight or focused.
Very creepy though. And the writer smartly stays vague throughout, not really telling the reader who or what it is that is either pursuing him or following him. But there are clues positioned throughout. ( Read more... )
Sci-Fi Co-worker and book buddy - is enjoying Dreadful. He said it was well-written, he liked the writing style and the characters. Also it was an interesting concept that he'd not run across before. So I made a friend happy this week, two friends actually.
Battlefield by Jim Butcher - ( UGH. Stupid Sadistic Writer )
I honestly think Kate Daniels has ruined me for urban fantasy - they subverted all of the tropes. And are the only ones to do something truly innovative with vampires and shapeshifters. Also veered completely away from Judeo-Christian mythos.
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Courtesy of brithistorian - I discovered that I can watch the Summer Olympics on the NBC Sports App, which allows me to avoid commercials and annoying politics.
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Off to wind down for bed. I want to get 7 hours of sleep for once.
This email talked about a PINK HOUSE. It's a $500,000, 1970's track home in Trenton, NJ, with a large backyard, no landscaping. Painted white and pink.
In the University Heights area near Princeton.
So curious, I clicked on the link and clicked through all the photos...and as I did, my jaw slowly dropped. Particularly on this picture:
It's a picture of Janet Leigh screaming on a see through pink shower curtain, the whole bathroom is pink. It is basically Barbie meets 1960s pop, in psychedelic pink.
( Read more... )
***
Other than that? Work was beyond boring. ( Read more... )
***
Making my way through PenPal which reads like a childhood memoir intertwined with creepy horror bits here and there - as a through thread.
Told from the perspective of an adult attempting relay vague memories of his childhood. It's an interesting narrative style, reminds me a little of King's the Body, except not quite as tight or focused.
Very creepy though. And the writer smartly stays vague throughout, not really telling the reader who or what it is that is either pursuing him or following him. But there are clues positioned throughout. ( Read more... )
Sci-Fi Co-worker and book buddy - is enjoying Dreadful. He said it was well-written, he liked the writing style and the characters. Also it was an interesting concept that he'd not run across before. So I made a friend happy this week, two friends actually.
Battlefield by Jim Butcher - ( UGH. Stupid Sadistic Writer )
I honestly think Kate Daniels has ruined me for urban fantasy - they subverted all of the tropes. And are the only ones to do something truly innovative with vampires and shapeshifters. Also veered completely away from Judeo-Christian mythos.
***
Courtesy of brithistorian - I discovered that I can watch the Summer Olympics on the NBC Sports App, which allows me to avoid commercials and annoying politics.
***
Off to wind down for bed. I want to get 7 hours of sleep for once.