(Note: WordPress is pissing me off mightily these past few days. It screws up the formatting, and any and all attempts to fix it are met with frustration. This will be my fourth attempt to post this.)
So, lacking a good idea of what I was going to do with the one character who didn’t go on the shopping trip (*sigh* – it’s a long story), I decided he would be meeting with an arms dealer. Well, why not? The arm’s dealer’s name is Snake, but I picture him looking like Mario Batali. Really – go look at his pictures and try and and imagine him as a dealer of such lethal weapons as twin short swords, brass knuckles, and rapier-in-a-cane. And explosives. Then again, maybe you can. (Anthony Bourdain, though, I’d totally buy as a bad-ass arms dealer.)
It also turns out that the second-in-command makes wicked split pea and ham soup. I did not know that about him until I wrote it this afternoon.
In other news that won’t make you look at me strangely…
I don’t know what it is about The New Pornographers, but every one of their songs that I download instantly becomes my new favourite song that I play about 20 times in a row. For example, I’ve listen to “The Body Says No” ten times already this evening. I’m loving the line “Heavens to Betsy, come on let’s see” – fun!
(My second favourite lyric right now is from Dangerous Muse’s “The Rejection” – “I’d like to like you like you like me” – so catchy!)
Also – had trouble getting the excerpt page to co-operate. I’ll try again on the weekend.
Keep in mind that snakes do not have arms, therefore it would be difficult for them to deal in arms or even with arms.
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I love, love, love “Sing Me Spanish Techno.” Hot damn, that’s a catchy song.
And I know what you mean about WordPress. We run Armada off it, and sometimes WordPress just goes mental with the formatting. And when you look at HTML view, it’s got the same formatting comment eight times in a row. But hey, it’s free. Whaddaya gonna do?
Blogger was free too, and I never had to delete and repost something six times before the formatting behaved. Grr…
Have you listened to any Neko Case? I have her new album. I’ll bring it home at Christmas. You can burn it then if you like. It’s terrific.
Tell me your troubles. Are you using rich-edit mode for writing posts? I don’t. It’s funky.
You should never have to delete a post. There’s a Preview of your post BELOW your post when you save it as a draft.
I was using rich text, and tried flipping over to HTML, but it doesn’t work the same way as in Blogger (where you would see all the markup). And I’m not getting a preview, but I’m going to check the settings.