Unnatural Creatures

Thus far, 75 77 people have expressed interest (if my math is to be trusted), which means that Unnatural Creatures is definitely a go.

I think what I'm going to do is wait until after the sale on February 2 to have them actually printed, so I can get the exact number needed (plus two, one for me and one for the archive), and then I don't have to worry about either (a.) extras or (b.) someone who wants one not being able to get it. And the beauty of POD is that I can do that.

This means that, like the auction, the sale of Unnatural Creatures will have a time limit.

Unnatural Creatures will be on sale from 02/02 2:00 P.M. CST to 02/03 2:00 P.M. CST. This will be a "speak now or forever hold your peace" kind of deal.

It will be US Trade size (6"x9"), perfect-bound, around 120 pages. Currently, the cover looks like this:


The price will be $20. Production costs are about $7, so that means $13 of every sale goes to the Companion Animal Fund. I'm cool with that.

Please, if you are interested and haven't said so yet, leave a comment here or here or even here. Just for the sake of my curiosity.

More red panda pictures. Because I needed them.

Remember those baby red pandas I blogged about?

Aside from Mozilla's FireFoxLive site, for all your red!panda!cam needs, ZooBorns has some absolutely stunning photographs of Spark and Ember. (The photographer's website also looks like an awesome timesink--just, you know, in case anybody needed that.)

Also from ZooBorns, while I'm at it, this astoundingly surreal video of zookeepers in Spain milking an orca. No, really. (Context here.)

And one more video, just because: a lion being swarmed by all seven of his children (from this ZooBorns post).

Project Valkyrie: waterlog

60 minutes, 38 laps.
292 miles, 25 laps.

Swimming doesn't give me the charge that my dressage lessons do, but I certainly do feel better afterwards. And my aching ankle tells me it's good PT.

Three clarifications

1. The Ben Jonson Memorial Sale will take place Wednesday, February 2. Nobody is in danger of missing out yet.

2. The BJMS will take place here, on this LiveJournal. I will have PayPal buttons and everything.

3. As long as you can pay me via PayPal, you can buy books. I will ship anywhere in the world, and the shipping costs are my problem, not yours.

Thank you, everybody, for your enthusiasm!