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04/29/2003 Entry: "What's up, girlfriends?"

I think the staff at the Virgin Megastore up by Union Square are having way too much fun. I went in there today, and they'd hung up posters for Lisa Marie Presley's new album and Spirited Away right next to each other, so that there's Lisa Marie and Chihiro standing back to back, heads turned to look outward at the viewer with rather similar expressions, though Chihiro seems more determined and Lisa Marie more world-weary. Chihiro's even about the right height proportionally. Now my brain is melty. (Of course, the store is all over Spirited Away stuff. Posters, DVDs, random soundtrack CD stuck in the rock/pop section, and the video playing on the big screen too. *Must get.*)

Oh, yes, and did get your story, liked much, and hopefully will have some useful comments before too much longer. I second (or third?) the suggestion to go for print publication unless there actually is an ezine out there that you love and worship and devoutly desire to be in for its own sake. So SageWoman doesn't take fiction (and I don't think the story's really their kind of thing anyway), but maybe PanGaia? I know they do; there's a piece in their latest issue, which has just come in. The story's too fictiony (and too sexy) for us, alas....

RE Yesterday's post, it got me to wondering who the smartest of my characters is. I actually don't really know. Their minds tend to work in rather different ways, which makes quantifying difficult. I'm pretty sure that Rin is the smartest of my PSME characters, though I think he gets beat out overall by Nokoru and certain of my late-continuity, somewhat modified versions of Omi.

Okay, that's enough procrastinating (again). Back to work. ^^