But I can share some awesomeness. First, want to see the views from an astronaut's camera?
<br/><a href="http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/view-from-an-astronauts-camera/20ki3o6i?src=v5:embed::&fg=sharenoembed" target="_new"title="View From An Astronaut's Camera">Video: View From An Astronaut's Camera</a>
Next, here's something that cracked me up (click to enbiggen):
And finally... maybe SYTYCD is getting tired of illegal youtube videos, because they've finally starting posting videos of the most recent dances on their website. It's a teeny little screen (could we have them bigger, please?), there's an Oreo ad that will make you never want to support Oreos again, there's sometimes a black bar at the bottom of the screen unnecessarily cutting off the dancers' feet (SRSLY? Is this the best SYTYCD can do at keeping people from searching youtube?), AND I'm sure the routines won't be up forever, so while you have the chance, go to the SYTYCD website and click on the down arrow to the right of the "Video Extras" box until you see "Melanie and Marko," then hit play. To paraphrase something David Letterman said once, if this dance routine doesn't drop you, you ain't hooked up right. Watch the others, too, of course, if you like! There were lots of good ones last night. But this one with the statues is an example of the reason I keep watching SYTYCD, despite the copious bullshit, like tonight's judging decision for example HRRRUMPH. Careful, judges, your manipulation is showing. HRRRRUMPPH! *ahem*
"Then, at last, sitting on her stretcher-bed, she took from the very bottom of her pack an old peacock-blue scarf folded around a heavy, square book. She unwrapped it and opened it very carefully, as if guilty secrets might fall from between its pages like pressed flowers. This was Harry's secret. She was a writer."
-from The Tricksters, by Margaret Mahy
Writing is my secret. Every day I unwrap and open it as carefully as I can. Welcome to my blog about writing and life! Above you'll find quick links about me and my books, and below is more about me, ways to subscribe, and an archive of past posts. Click here to go home to my most recent posts.
Kristin Cashore wrote the New York Times bestsellers Graceling and Fire, both of which have been named ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Graceling is the winner of the 2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature and Fire is the winner of Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. The books are world travelers, currently scheduled to be published in thirty languages.
If you have a LiveJournal and want to add my blog to your flist, friend the syndicated version of my blog, kristincashore. Dreamwidth users, friend kcashore_feed. Or, if you use a reader, click here to subscribe:
Or, if you want to receive my blog posts as emails, sign up below!
Finally, a note: This blog is my only online presence. I am not on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or any other social media sites.