Eli's Sense of Whimsy:
A Hastily Constructed Web Page
Because we do this every year.
Update 6/24/08 - I don't know if anyone comes to this page anymore, but if they do...they should stop! I have an infinitely superior web page now, called Back Booth. It's where I update all my comings and goings, publications and performances, and the like. And did I mention it's vastly superior? Update 10/28/04 - It does not do for Eli to be bored at work. She makes pictures. Lots & lots of pictures. There's this thing called The Hero Machine, & it's perfect for people with too much time on their hands, a good internet connection, & no skills in the visual arts. I've been living there for the past few days, & I've done pictures of every major character in the novel - & several minor ones, as well. And then I posted them here. Once you get them all together like this, you realize how ridiculous it looks, 'cause there's only one possible pose. Overlook that, please, & just look at the pretty pictures. And, hey, if there's any character you feel I've overlooked & you want me to whip up, I'm always happy for an excuse to go back there (unless you say Fallon. If you say Fallon, I will smack you silly).
10/15/04 - My 3rd year of National Novel Writing Month fast approaches. I changed the title of last year's novel to The Ballad of Bandric Keep & will be attempting to finish it this November. Of course, last year I was single & unemployed when we did this. Now I am neither of these things. We'll see how it goes.
10/10/03 - I am all signed up for National Novel Writing Month 2003! Yes, it's true - I'm tackling this insanity for a 2nd year. This year my novel is pretentiously titled The Laugh of Death, the story of a girl who just wants to be the Queen's Fool. And how much that just doesn't happen for her. At the request of many of my on-line associates (which makes it sound like the Internet mafia or something), I have decided to put this year's NaNo effort on my livejournal, rather than here. It's going under Friends' Lock, owing to some delusions I have about actually finishing/publishing it someday. I'm a fool, I know, but if I'm going to be foolish, I might as well go ahead & be all the way foolish. I extend a salute to everyone who's involved in NaNo this year; best of luck.
Oh. Except for one person. Francis Grey should rot in Hell, the bitch (watch this spot for the further, made-up saga of how Francis & I came to be personal nemeses & literary rivals).
7/3/03 - Unemployed again. Grrr. But! We have a new play living here. It's called "City Saturday Nite," & it's a 10-minute I wrote after a run-in with the St Paul impound system. Originally submitted to (& rejected by) The Playwrights' Center's 10-minute play festival, it was performed by Short Attention Span Theater at the '10-minute Play Festival Fringe,' otherwise known as the PWC's end-of-season party. Come read it, won't you please?
3/20/03 - Happy Unjust, Illegal Attacks on Iraq Day, everybody. I'm so pissed I just have no words for it. I cannot begin to wrap my mind around the stupid, stubborn, unjust, and endangering thing our country's dicta -- er, leaders have gotten us into. And I want to know how I can do more to tell them what a ahuge mistake they've made. In the interim, I laugh at what infuriates me, so I don't cry. Along those lines, I was part of a group of people that put together some anti-war and pro-equal wages parody/protest songs for a women's conference here in St. Paul, and I've given them a page here, because they make me smile, and damned little does that lately.
1/17/03 - Nothing on the novel front; it's still just a big, messy mess. But, hey, check out what else I've been up to lately. "The Old and the Cheap". This is the "Whistling Shade" used book store review, of which I was a part. I did the reviews on Sixth Chamber, Station 17, & James and Mary Laurie. But all the reviews are well-written, the hunt was fun, "Whistling Shade" rocks, & everyone should be supporting used book stores!
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KENNETH: And take off that ridiculous outfit; you look like an idiot.
ANTHONY: It's whimsical! What happened to your sense of whimsy, for God's sake?
-Blood Relatives by Mick Weinblatt
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Last update: October 15, 2004
Word Count: 0
NaNoWriMo-related stress level: 0. Talk to me again in 2 weeks.