me being a distractable reading dork again

So I went to L-Space looking for information about Bloody Stupid Johnson, because I was wondering if he might have been based on an actual person named Capability Brown who's name I came across in a book on architecture and gardens, and I ran across The Legend of the Holy Anorankh, an ank wearing an anorak, symbol of involuntary celibacy:
http://www.lspace.org/fandom/afp/timelines/holy-anorankh.html (ETA: Seriously, read this thread - it's pretty funny stuff, especially Pratchett's final line, and it doesn't take too long. :))

Unfortunately Clarecraft closed up shop three years ago, so getting any kind of Holy Anorankh is impossible, now. I can't even find a picture of what they produced. Oh, wait! Here!

Meanwhile I'm reading one of Kage Baker's "Company" series, 'The Graveyard Game.' This one is mostly concerning Joseph and Lewis, and I had almost forgotten how much I love them. I kind of want Joseph/Lewis. :) I can't figure out how it could be done, but I'm only a quarter of the way through the book, so maybe it will be easy later on. ( Mild spoilers )

Okay, I guess I need more tea and to get my ass to the laundromat. Much to do, today, as we're going camping tonight. (Therefore, of course, it's raining, and in the area we're going to there are flash flood warnings.)

close call

Emptying the pockets of jeans, preparatory to washing, I went to toss out a bundle of recipes and garbage that was in one pocket when something about the texture of the bundle caught the attention of my fingertips. Unraveling it revealed $16. I had just been thinking that if my hands ever lost their sensitivity it would be a very bad thing for me, and was immediately proven right.

more on "The Graveyard Game"

I've decided that Joseph is Crowley (though more betrayed because his masters were supposed to be Heaven and are turning out to be Hell) and Lewis is Pretty-Aziraphale (although not so helpless). They're both of the Preserver class of cyborg, immortals, and have been kicking around Earth for a long time (several thousand years in Joseph's case, Lewis is, I think, younger.) Joseph's job is Facilitator, or con-man (he talks people into things) and he's small and dark with a goatee. Lewis is delicate and blond and is a Literature specialist. ( as evidence of their Crowley-and-Aziraphale-ish interactions, I offer a snippet after Lewis forces Joseph to go on an in-costume tour of the Bronte museum - quote snippet which I won't label spoiler because I think it will have very little to do with the actual story line. )

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Off to camp - flash flood warnings! :)