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Ah, the joy of spending a day not doing anything productive. Back to the grind tomorrow (not much longer!) but at least I got to spend today catching up on lj and comics and reading entirely too much slash.

Lest you think I slacked off completely, I wrote a drabble - literally, one hundred words including title - for submission to a horror ezine, but now that I've written it I'm looking at the themes and the list of possible upcoming themes and wondering if I'd be better off saving it for another issue. This one pretty clearly wants frankenstein stories instead of accidental warzone necrophilia.

I've also gotten some quality link-hopping time off one of liz_marcs entries lately. Political stuff.

Neo-fascism
Eliminationism
Old, old techniques

This stuff's enough for me to bring this old icon out of retirement, I swear.

Coincidentally (or... not quite) I also borrowed Bertrand Russell's Power from the library, and it's utterly fascinating and scarily sensible despite being twenty five years out of date. (Incidentally, what's up with book covers from the seventies and eighties? They had nice book covers in the nineteenth century, and they're fine now with the exception of the occasional dreadful fantasy cover art, but that era was just uniformly awful. What happened? Also, apparently the colour orange is edgy or something, cos they sure were itching to slap it on the manifestos, diatribes and anyone who disagrees with people a lot. But what can you expect from a company that prints a tiny hardcover labeled "unwin paperbacks"?)

My memory tends to be patchy, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I tend to get all politicised in summer and then drop it after a few months. There was that (failure of a) community I started a few years ago... Maybe it's just a matter of how much free time I've got?

If so, prepare for a summer of ranting. And creepy creepy zombie drabbles.