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[yendi]

Okay, it's weird, but I kinda take pride in the interests in my journal that aren't clickable -- the ones that only I have. That's why I haven't added Liavek as an interest -- laurel is the only one with it, so I wouldn't want to remove it from that place in her interest list (and besides, if you can't figure out that I'm a Liavek fan from the fact that I like Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Kara Dalkey, Steven Brust, etc, you probably don't care, anyway).

So I was shocked to discover that I'm down to one unique interest. I still have Kara Dalkey, but someone else (chastmastr) went and added Codename Knockout (and since he also added the writer and all the characters, he's obviously a bit more obessed than I am.

So damn, I need to find another unique interest or two. But legit ones. I wanna be the cool kid who's into good stuff years before anyone else. :-)

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[chrisv.livejournal.com]

I totally know what you mean, though I look at it a little differently. I have one unique interest, a band in Texas called Riddle Me This (http://www.riddleme.com/) (they did the "I'm a Cow" song and Flash animation (http://www.riddleme.com/html/cow.html), which you may have seen). I *like* it when I find someone else who shares a rare interest. :-)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

That's actually why I haven't added Kara Dalkey!

I have four unique interests. I am cool like the cool kids.

You could always add "kat and mouse studios"...

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

What's liavek? I like some of those authors, maybe I'll like that thing.

[yendi]

True, but you and Mousie need to add them as well. :-)

[yendi]

Oh, I like finding other folks with rare interests, but once I've determined that no-one else shares the interest, I kind like having something non-clickable on my interest list. :-)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

We don't need to add them - we *are* them.

"I'm on the brute squad..."
"You *are* the brute squad!"

[yendi]

(warning -- blasphemy ahead)
Liavek is the best shared-world anthology series ever. Better than Thieves World. Even better than Bordertown. (/blasphemy)

More specifically, it was a five-volume shared world anthology edited by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull in the late '80s. It was set in an arabesque fantasy world (one that possibly arose after a post-apocalyptic future), and had some great stories by all of those authors, as well as Pat Wrede and Walter Jon Williams and John M Ford and Charles de Lint and Megan Lindholm (before her death and rebirth as Robin Hobb) and Jane Yolen and a bunch of folks I can't remember now.

I like the series, if you hadn't guessed. :-)

[darkmattr.livejournal.com]

I have the best intrest....

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm willow.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oooh!! Oooh!! I posted that link in my journal several months back, and some of us LJers were discussing it at Burrito Art a while back...

"Farmer Brown, he's a creep, how he treats those poor sheep."

I had two unclickable interests when I first joined LJ: www.likesbooks.com (the website I review for, check it out!) and www.thehungersite.com. Someone else has added www.thehungersite.com, but now I have a new unclickable interest: "getting kicked outta gradschool."

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

hee!! =) i'm such a brute!! ::giggling madly::

[bitch, yes -- brute, not hardly!]

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

i have only one unique interest, which is odd considering i know of at least one other harper on LJ (and she's local to Atlanta, too).

so i'm not so l33t as some of you cool kidz... =)

[two-star.livejournal.com]

I was the only person with São Paulo listed as an interest. I didn't consider until just now that people would leave off the tilde. Similarly, I am the only person with céilí and Käthe Kollwitz as interests spelled with correct diacriticals. I don't understand why so many people don't bother to spell things correctly. Aside from those I have a whole bunch of unique interests, mostly plants, local musicians, and foods.

[edie22.livejournal.com]

I now have 6 non-clickable interests. I added my high school and mascot, hoping to find someone else I graduated with, but no dice. Stupid backwards town I grew up in.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

And you share one with Elayna - vampire bunnies.

[technomom]

I have some interests spelled several ways because some people commonly spell them that way, in the interests of finding other people who share them (mostly stitching-related). Not counting those, I have 9 that are still unique.

Elise Witt (musician)
Kathy Lynn Emerson (author)
Lucy Synk (artist)
Lynne Murray (author)
Monica Ferris (author)
Randall Spangler (artist)
Real Musgrave (artist)
Susan Van Camp (artist)

[yendi]

I thought about the multiple-spellings thing (Charles de Lint appears on some lists as delint and Charles delint). But after my rant over here, I decided that wasn't the way to go. :-)

I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't heard of any of your nine (though I freely admit my almost complete ignorance of contemporary art). Anything worthwhile I should know about any of 'em?

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[technomom]

Well, there isn't a general concensus as to whether one of the kinds of needlework I do is crossstitch or cross stitch. And some people use x-stitch or xstitch (though that seems like it oughta be naughty stuff to me, and the only pattern I've seen that fits isn't available any more).

Elise Witt is a local singer/songwriter. I attended one of her Singing for Fun workshops and cannot recommend it strongly enough. http://www.mindspring.com/~emworld/

Kathy Lynn Emerson writes mysteries set in the 1500s.

I have two Lucy Synk prints hanging in our living room/office. I want the third in the series (but then I'll have to have all three framed so the new one matches the other two). I think I saw the ad for them in Aboriginal SF many years ago. http://www.fantasticart.com/lucysynk.htm

Lynne Murray - writes modern mysteries featuring a delightful fat lady as the main character. I'm a fat lady and I often get to read about charcters who look like me. http://members.aol.com/murraymade/

Monica Ferris - she writes mysteries that involve a lot of needlework. Definitely a niche thing. She's published other stuff as Margaret of Shaftesbury, Mary Monica Pulver, Mary Pulver Kuhfeld and (with a cowriter) Margaret Frazer. I haven't been successful in actually finding the series that started with Murder at the War, involving the SCA.
http://members.aol.com/MaryPulver/

I'm running out of space for a comment entry. I know that makes it seems like I read mostly mysteries, which is funny - I don't. But those are the ones nobody else has listed as an interest :-)

[yendi]

I can see the need in the case of the cross-stitching (just to add another spelling).

Thanks for the links -- I'm not a huge fan of contemporary mysteries (although I read a few crime authors like Lansdale and Vachss), but I do like the occasional quirky one (An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears, comes to mind).

In another small world situation, Teresa Loftin, who does the web page for Murray, is a former co-worker of mine. She's a huge mystery fan, and has done web pages for a lot of authors and cons.

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[technomom]

I think what I like about Emerson so much is that she's very historically accurate.

[phantom_wolfboy]

I'm still looking for Pulver's The Unforgiving Minute; the only one of the Murder at the War sequels that I don't already have. So if you do find a source for those, I wouldn't mind hearing about it.

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[technomom]

Will do :-) I hate reading a series until I have all of the books in hand, so reading MatW probably means I'll have to find the others anyway.