Thursday Hockey

Kim's working as a fundraising volunteer for the next few Lightning games, which leaves me with an extra ticket to this Thursday's game (and possibly the one next Thursday, too, but I'll need to check).

Who wants to come with? First come, first swerved.

Depressing..... [the clutch, that is]

I believe I have discerned the reason I will be in for unremitting mockery for being foolhardy enough to jump into the NI90 fray - lately, I've been writing stories that I wouldn't necessarily want to read. I see matociquala's enthusiasm for the niftiness of her characters and contrivances, then look at the various chunks of what's dribbled onto the page thus far from my efforts and I'm left thinking, "Who is this sensitive, humanist, sympathetic asshole? Where's the grit, gleam, and cool shit?"

I want to watch ESPN, FX, and Spike... and I'm writing for Oxygen and A&E. Not that there aren't people who want that sort of thing, but I'm not, strictly speaking, one of them.

Warm fuzzies should be my counterpoint, not the crux of the narrative (unless there is something deep in my psyche that I don't really want to face at the moment. Bah, nice guy syndrome, bah!).

I need to recalibrate my internal remote control before I bother setting up to TIVO anything.