Thursday October 31, 2013  Halloween.  People in costume.  And people wearing clothes which a few decades ago would have been classed as costumes, but are now unremarkable.

***The Minnesota Daily had an interview with an exorcist.  He attributes his relatively few failures to those patients not wanting to give up their connections to Satan.

("How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?"  "Only one; but the lightbulb has to want to change.")

Thoughts:  Perhaps there are specialists who serve those who want to be demon-possessed, and can't manage it on their own.

And perhaps others who help people possessed by angels who want to be freed.

***To the Adult Children Anonymous meeting.  The two people leading the meeting had keys to the church.  However, the keys didn't work.

I returned home.

***From Publishers Lunch listing of books bought:  "Michael Grant's YA trilogy that re-imagines the second World War in an alternate world where young women are drafted along with men...."

And:  "THE STOLEN CHILD author Keith Donohue's THE INSIDE BOY, set in coastal Maine about a young boy, deathly afraid of the outdoors, whose drawings of monsters begin to cross the line between fantasy and reality; Simon Unsworth's THE SORROWFUL, set in Hell, pitched as 'The Wire meets Clive Barker...."

***From Twitter:

 Erin M ‏@tad_overdue Why was the vampire nervous about the library board meeting? Too many stake-holders! #halloweenlibrarypuns #sorrypunhaters
Retweeted by rivenhomewood

The Daily Beast ‏@thedailybeast The forgotten reign of England's lesbian queen http://thebea.st/19gj2Hw

Thursday October 31, 2013  Halloween.  People in costume.  And people wearing clothes which a few decades ago would have been classed as costumes, but are now unremarkable.

***The Minnesota Daily had an interview with an exorcist.  He attributes his relatively few failures to those patients not wanting to give up their connections to Satan.

("How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?"  "Only one; but the lightbulb has to want to change.")

Thoughts:  Perhaps there are specialists who serve those who want to be demon-possessed, and can't manage it on their own.

And perhaps others who help people possessed by angels who want to be freed.

***To the Adult Children Anonymous meeting.  The two people leading the meeting had keys to the church.  However, the keys didn't work.

I returned home.

***From Publishers Lunch listing of books bought:  "Michael Grant's YA trilogy that re-imagines the second World War in an alternate world where young women are drafted along with men...."

And:  "THE STOLEN CHILD author Keith Donohue's THE INSIDE BOY, set in coastal Maine about a young boy, deathly afraid of the outdoors, whose drawings of monsters begin to cross the line between fantasy and reality; Simon Unsworth's THE SORROWFUL, set in Hell, pitched as 'The Wire meets Clive Barker...."

***From Twitter:

 Erin M ‏@tad_overdue Why was the vampire nervous about the library board meeting? Too many stake-holders! #halloweenlibrarypuns #sorrypunhaters
Retweeted by rivenhomewood

The Daily Beast ‏@thedailybeast The forgotten reign of England's lesbian queen http://thebea.st/19gj2Hw

Thursday October 31, 2013  Halloween.  People in costume.  And people wearing clothes which a few decades ago would have been classed as costumes, but are now unremarkable.

***The Minnesota Daily had an interview with an exorcist.  He attributes his relatively few failures to those patients not wanting to give up their connections to Satan.

("How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?"  "Only one; but the lightbulb has to want to change.")

Thoughts:  Perhaps there are specialists who serve those who want to be demon-possessed, and can't manage it on their own.

And perhaps others who help people possessed by angels who want to be freed.

***To the Adult Children Anonymous meeting.  The two people leading the meeting had keys to the church.  However, the keys didn't work.

I returned home.

***From Publishers Lunch listing of books bought:  "Michael Grant's YA trilogy that re-imagines the second World War in an alternate world where young women are drafted along with men...."

And:  "THE STOLEN CHILD author Keith Donohue's THE INSIDE BOY, set in coastal Maine about a young boy, deathly afraid of the outdoors, whose drawings of monsters begin to cross the line between fantasy and reality; Simon Unsworth's THE SORROWFUL, set in Hell, pitched as 'The Wire meets Clive Barker...."

***From Twitter:

 Erin M ‏@tad_overdue Why was the vampire nervous about the library board meeting? Too many stake-holders! #halloweenlibrarypuns #sorrypunhaters
Retweeted by rivenhomewood

The Daily Beast ‏@thedailybeast The forgotten reign of England's lesbian queen http://thebea.st/19gj2Hw

Thursday October 24, 2013  There was a dog at the Adult Children Anonymous meeting.  I began thinking about 12-Step groups for dogs, but didn't get farther than Carchasers Anonymous.

***From Publisher's Lunch list of books sold:  "Author of In the Hand of Dante Nick Tosches's untitled historical thriller about the life of Jesus, here seen as an erstwhile street-punk outlaw from Galilean society"

***From Twitter:
Poynter ‏@Poynter Candidate endorses himself in ad on @Cleveland_Scene's cover: http://bit.ly/1fYkMK3  Criticism of move is "pretty boring," editor says

Co.Exist ‏@FastCoExist Feeding Future Megacities With Floating Hydroponic Farms http://f-st.co/lxD4ISC

***Friday October 25, 2013 "For two years I was involved with 'The Lifestyle'...Then I met an incredibly sexy man and the four of us had 'Moby sex.'"

"The Lifestyle" involved "bondage and pigtails."  Advice columnist Alexis had never heard of Moby sex.
http://www.vita.mn/alexis/229006181.html

***From laughingsquid.com, via Facebook:
Sound Engineer Who Wasn’t Paid by Band Remixes Their Hardcore Song into Electronic Dance Music Tune
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mzrdfx5

***From Publisher's Lunch list of books sold:
Reif Larsen's second novel, I AM RADAR, about a love-struck epileptic radio operator from the New Jersey Meadowlands who becomes involved with a secret international society of scientists and puppeteers that perform avant-garde shows about particle physics for populations suffering from genocide

Laurie McKay's THE LAST DRAGON CHARMER series: THE VILLAIN KEEPER (Book 1), in which a prince is pulled from his realm into Asheville, NC, and discovers the local middle school is staffed with banished villains from his world