Three dwarves that never made the cut: frustrated angry and bitchy

I'm frustrated: I'm trying attempting (or ratherthe domain owner and my webhoster are attempting) to transfer the Erotic Authors Association to my hoster and the site's been down for days. I'm assured that everything that should have been done HAS been done numbers input etc but still the site is coming up as not available. I could cry - this kind of thing happens to me all the time, things that seem so simple when other people manage them, and I touch them and it's like the touch of D00M.

*tears out hair* It's not just me that's affected here, it's several HUNDRED people and the responsiblity is making me so stressed I can't think straight. Cripes, imagine what I'd feel like if it was a paying organization!

And then I got THIS message on MySpace which disgusted me more than amused me. ( bleurghk )

Still Grumpy

GREAT NEWS!! Going to see POTC3 this week on the opening night. Not only that we are splashing out on tickets for "The Gallery" which are Pullman seats, and no under 18's allowed in. Plus you get unlimited scoff - which is well worth the £10 ticket price! Tickets are normally £6.10 each, then I spend £5.25 on nachos and a drink (are you fainting yet, America?) so the bloody gallery is a BARGAIN - I don't know why we never went there before.

NOT so Great News: seen via queertext Journey Books Publishing is accepting submissions for an anthology called UNPARALLELED JOURNEYS 2. I could (almost) forgive them for the ½ cent a word - making a 3000 word story worth crap $15, but I can't forgive anyone this:

We do not accept work that promotes gay lifestyles.

Look. If you don't wish to publish gay material, then don't publish it. But don't make yourself look like a horse's arse by coming out with statements like this. And gay "lifestyles"???? What is homosexuality? A HOBBY or something?

Look Journey Books, being gay isn't a life choice. It's not something you wake up one morning and think, "I'll have a go at that today, and if that doesn't work I'll join the Caravan Club." For some people it's a very traumatic experience, learning to cope with it, having to tell others about it not to mention the million other problems, and to have it trivialised like this - particularly within a genre that has traditionally, for fifty years, explored gender and bent it, played with it, threatened it, questioned it.

Are you expecting to land on your planet in one of your Parallel journeys and find a lovely planet full of heterosexual aliens who don't swear? (yes, they don't want cussin' either, folks)

As I said. It's their decision not to publish whatever the hell they want in their magazine (although I won't ever publicise them after this, and I'm expressing my distaste to Ralan, Duotrope and Journey Books themselves) but for FUCK's sake, don't treat it like it's a communicable disease.

I think this little used icon sums it up. Thnx