Post-weekend

Spent the last few days doing much socializing. Dinner and Northern Exposure on Friday night - I somehow managed to miss this show when it was on. I suspect it was during one of my many years of No TV. We were all struck by the notion of a well-written network TV show with a diverse cast in which the characters of color not only have significant lines of dialog, but don't get redshirted and have lives apart from the Caucasian characters. Not to mention at least one major nontrad role for a female character. It's pretty sad to see how much ground we've actually lost overall.

Saturday was lovely, lovely brunch at the Seward Cafe with Naomi and Erin who were up visiting from Iowa. Then I was off to the Electric Fetus to pick up tickets for the Valentine's Day flamenco concert at the Cedar Cultural Center . Turns out that the Fetus is in some trouble what with being hit by the tornado a few months back and is having a big series of sales to try and raise some cash to pay off the debt. There's also a benefit show coming up at First Ave (check the Fetus website for details). I ended up picking up Dessa's "Badly Broken Code" (local artist, R&B influenced hip-hop) which I'm loving; Eliza Carthy and the Kings of Calicutt (lively modernized English folk music with international influences) which I'm also loving; and Shakira's "She Wolf" (pop with multiple international elements) which I'm not loving, but am hoping will grow on me.

Sunday was a writing day. Silver Moon is coming along and I've posted the guidelines to our new anthology (see previous post). I'll be outlining the second half of Moon soon since I think I need that to keep all my plotlines under control. Should be interesting but I can tell I'm definitely at the halfway and a bit beyond point. Yay!

Unrelated plugs: True Colors Bookstore is having a month long sale on erotica (including my collections) and romance. So far this year, they've experienced a second robbery and a basement flooding. :-(((

Fannish auction for yet more medical bills - Fluffybunnyfund. Hominysnark who I do not know but who designs and sells t-shirts and other things full of the awesome at F-Bod Studios needs to raise cash to pay for a much needed medical procedure. Check out the cool stuff, buy something, boost the signal. We all know the drill at this point, unfortunately.

Polidori Chocolates, the folks who brought you the Choconomicon have some lovely weird truffles just in time for Valentine's Day and afterwards. I discovered them last year during one of the many fannish fundraisers and am delighted that they're up and running again.