Wherefore art thou, rats?

These last two rat chapters are kicking my ass. They are gonna be awesome, it's all planned. But man, I'm having a terrible time getting them down. Have to mix and post a new short story podcast tomorrow. This one features vocals and music from a bunch of peeps from my day-jon instead of my usual cast. It's a fun one.

I lost one of my Z for Zombies earrings. Sadness.

Kind of flailing on the freelance stuff. Associated Content keeps saying my pics aren't acceptable when they follow their guidelines to the letter. I don't get it. The only place online that I'm writing regularly (besides here, obviously) is Zombie Zone News. If you haven't already checked it out my interview with the director of Bong of the Dead is pretty funny. I really enjoy doing the interviews, but I gots to be makin' some money. Sadly, writing about zombies has not been very lucrative thusfar. Thinking I might start a horror column at Suite 101. The pay doesn't appear to be very good. But if it's only stuff I like writing, it might not be so bad.

Falling Skies is just interesting enough to keep me watching. I wouldn't say I love it or anything. It's fairly predictable, but the skitters are cool. New season of Futurama has been okay. True Blood is off to a slow start.

Pesto Ahoy!

I completely forgot to mention in my last entry, the miracle that is garlic scapes. These are, I think, technically garlic sprouts. They are the green onion equivalent to garlic. So garlicy, but milder and nicer, and snappier. I used them when we had friends over for mexican lasagne earlier in the week. Man, they are redonkulously delicious.
I want them till forever.

I have some left, so tomorrow is pesto.
Apparently pesto is the fan favorite of garlic scape recipes.
I think of pesto as more of a method than a recipe anyway. Mine will have scapes, parmesan, walnuts, spinach, a few spices, salt, and some good olive oil.

For reference, garlic scapes look like this:


And taste like this:


Not getting much work done today. At the tail end of yet another damn kidney stone. I expect that my lower half will explode with pain sometime in the next 6 hours. I've had this one a while now, over a week. So I'm going in for reals for a CT as soon as I can get an appointment. I wasn't going to do it because it stopped hurting, plus it's gonna be really expensive, I am sure. Anyway, I'm gonna call next Weds. Pain is keeping me from getting too much work done.

Tomorrow is the day-job followed by catching up on stuff here. Was supposed to edit a podcast and put up an interview and it doesn't look like I'm gonna do either thing. So far, just a bit of online time and some TV and pain killers. I'll probably watch a movie and go to bed.

I need to take some pictures of some black rats. Anybody know where I can find some that are clean and pretty and will pose for the camera?

Hahahahaha. JoJo just brought me a fortune cookie from the kitchen.
No lie. What an awesome cat.

H is printing me up a book containing all known grammar and vocabulary for the Dothraki language. I'm intensely interested in how one creates a language for use in a novel. I don't exactly write fantasy, but it seems like a new language could have various and sundry applications in horror.