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I heat up / Can't cool down / I wanna reach out and grab ya... |
Tuesday, June 20, 2000 Heat... Erotic and Otherwise This is embarrassing. Here I'm in the middle of writing a series of reviews of erotic stories for Clean Sheets, and now that I'm revising the third installment, I've realized that I don't have the foggiest idea of how to write about the erotic elements of said stories. Not only don't I have the critical vocabulary for it, I don't even know what it is I'm looking for. Heck of a time to find out, though...
Well, it's several hours later now, and I managed to cobble together something. It ain't perfect, but the piece goes up tomorrow, so it'll have to be close enough. Oh, which reminds me that last month's installment of that series comes down tomorrow, and I never mentioned it here. Well, it'll be in the archives afterwards, anyway, and we've opened those up to the non-paying public again, so you could check 'em out later if you wanted. (As usual, I'm using my pseudonym for these. But it's the only monthly series we're currently running on works from alt.sex.stories, so it shouldn't be hard to find.) What I'm doing reviewing this stuff in the first place is a good question, and one I'm not sure I want to deal with just now. I did envision the series somewhat differently than it's coming out. I'd planned to use each author's works as a springboard to discuss issues relevant to writing about sexual topics, and how such issues can or should be dealt with in literary fiction. Instead, they're amounting to hastily-written pieces saying "Hey, I like this writer! Go read hir stuff!" Which is not a wholly bad thing, but not what I'd had in mind. Well, maybe the next bunch will be better.
Part of the immediate problem is the heat, of course. Plus the secondary problem that comes with having only a small clip-on fan: for it to be at all effective, it needs to be pointed directly at me, but having a stream of air blowing directly at me tends to slow down my thought processes. If I'm going to have a chance of being productive this summer, I'm really going to have to do something about this. So. It turns out that, so far as the landlords are concerned, I can get an air conditioner, provided that I kick in an extra $25 to cover the cost of electricity for each month I use it. Should the bill turn out to shoot up outrageously more than that, we'll renegotiate. I'm now not quite certain I can even afford it, as my bank account is dwindling again, and I have only enough for another month... but my first Camper's Paradise paycheck comes in three weeks, three days before the rent is due, so I should be fine. (If I haven't already mentioned it, yes, starting next week, I'll be back writing a weekly newsletter at the Camper's Paradise. This'll be my eighth straight summer writing it. I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna write about yet, but brainstorming is in progress. And, student loans excepted, this is my largest source of income for the year.) The problem is that the air conditioner I want is one inch too tall for my window opening. However, when the window is opened all the way, there's still a couple of inches of clearance at the top. It looks as if it should open further, but it doesn't. So I'm wondering if there's a way of getting it to do so, without breaking anything. Anybody out there know anything about windows?
Let's see... I have a long list of topics to write about, and I even have it down on paper for a change. On the other hand, I'm planning on leaving this apartment pretty soon, so that I won't be here for the next few hours, so that I won't be able to fall asleep first thing in the evening, which is what I've been doing for the past few days. As I need to be awake tomorrow evening (plus I'm going to see Kymm perform in a few days, probably on Sunday night), it'd be nice to get my sleeping patterns back to... well, my usual levels of abnormality. One last thing, then. Much to my joy, I found out yesterday that FX is going to be running all thirteen episodes of Action -- both the eight that were aired on Fox, and the five that would have aired if the series hadn't been cancelled -- on Tuesday nights at 10:30 PM Eastern time, between now and Spetember 12th. Mere moments after I saw the headline about this in the TV section of yesterday's paper, I was online and beseeching a friend in Houston to tape the whole series for me. (The full article on the subject is here, but be warned: it has an evil DHTML sidebar that takes forever to load and view, at least on my system. Also, it will probably be available only for the next few days.)
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