Well, I've always wanted to be a redhead...

( Who is your inner bombshell? )

Pinched from velvet_dryad

Write your congressfolk...

Read this about how congress is going to vote to support torture.

If you read down a bit in the remarks, you'll find a sample letter from a kind person named Betsy who provided a skeleton for your thoughts.

Then get your nine-digit zip code and write today.

Yea, I know you're swamped. I am, too. But if this one gets through under the radar attached to the 9/11 stuff, we will never be able to look the rest of the civilized world in the eye again.

Thanks to rolanni for bringing this up.

Four more days....

...before you run out of time.

Even if you don't want to vote, even if you think it doesn't matter if you vote, PLEASE register to vote! The deadline is Monday.

http://www.yourvotematters.com/

It's simple, it only takes a few minutes, it will not increase your odds of being selected for jury duty (they use another way to find you now) and--if you change your mind and WANT to vote, you can.

If you don't register now, it will be too late. You won't be allowed to vote.

And sending money to Morrison, the guy running against Tom DeLay, is satisfying, but it's not voting! Remember--Florida and Oregon were decided by mere hundreds of votes.

Here in Texas, we're merely trying to scare Bush. But local officials, watch out...

So please--if you care about trying to keep this country the most free on Earth, vote.

Cynics are suggesting it may be your last chance to do so....

Winding down

Late here, especially since we're going to the Texas Renaissance Fair tomorrow. I have been re-building a synopsis from a skeleton I had, and finding it interesting going. It's maybe harder than it has to be, because I am using a prior synopsis as a frame, as opposed to the usual holistic writing style--but I keep finding large swaths of it useful. I'm just tweaking like mad to concentrate the focus.

Have been meaning to post the names of some recent books I've enjoyed, fiction and non-fiction, but too many other things have intruded. I hope my next one will be Staying Dead by suricattus--it looks satisfying intriguing. Only one slight problem--I see something on the back that I've used in a book I'm working on.

I hope the "mage who has lost his mind" is not a still-living famous mage or reincarnation of someone, because I'd hate to give up my drug-damaged slacker wizard. So, Suri, I really have started him! I can send you the synopsis!

He's not the protagonist!