This is important. This means something.

(Cross-posted from The Weblog That Time Forgot.)

It seems that my friend Moe (you may remember him from such films as Obsidian Wings or the In Nomine mailing list) has started a new weblog, Weblog Licentiae Moeticae. (The LJ feed is at moeticae_blog.) Anybody who reads this weblog (all four of you) should probably read WLM, since Moe writes on many* of the same topics that I do and is a better writer than I am.

I'm also kind of hoping that Moe will kick my ass and make me start posting here again. (Possibly in a passive way - ass-kicking by example, as it were.)

* I would probably not, for instance, write an Ambrosian hymn** on SCA tournaments.

** I make no promises about sonnets or triolets.

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It's 5-7-5.
To honor this special date,
you should write haiku.

New default icon
surfacing like a bullfrog -
not quite GIP.

Haiku make the GIP
(note the pronunciation)
more palatable.

Also new icon
of Richard Feynman, but it
does not apply here.

EDIT: I mention
only out of correctness:
these are not haiku.

(Okay, the first is
haiku, since it uses frogs;
but the rest are not.)

Haiku want kigo,
or season words; above are
really senryuu.

"Senryuu" is,
in Japanese, four morae
(chunks like syllables

but more general).
In English it is two or three
by your preference.

I use three morae;
I guess how you use it is
really up to you.

[Writing] Goals

I have set a goal for myself of 1,000 words written per day.

Today:

1,348 / 1,000 (134.0%)

1,348 words on an In Nomine fanfic called Insomnia. It's very rough, and only the beginning of what - weirdly, for me - promises to be something very long, but it's a good start.