My Brain Is Bizarre

I never watched much of Xena: Warrior Princess. I caught a few episodes here and there while it was on, along with a few episodes of Hercules. Today my brain has fixated on the end of one of the episodes of Xena and I have no idea where it came from.

The episode was one where everyone had been reincarnated and was living in the modern world. Xena and Joxer (sp?) were either married or living together (I can't remember) and there were seeing a therapist who was Gabrielle. It turned out that Annie, who physically looked like Xena, was actually the reincarnated Joxer and the guy who looked like Joxer was actually Xena. Anyway, I just remember the very end being Annie skipping down the street singing this: "Annie bananie she kicks fanny, just as good as Joxer did." That probably wasn't it exactly, but that what's been kicking around my head all flipping day long!

I don't know where my brain diggs this stuff up, or why.

My first post on Troll in the Corner

Last month I took a big leap of faith, with lots of helpful hand holding from my husband, and applied for a position as a literature editor on the Troll in the Corner website. I supplied a book review and an editorial piece I did on National Novel Writing Month as samples for them to consider. Outside of a few Friday Flash pieces, it's really the first time I've shared anything I've written with someone outside my comfort zone (which at this point has been limited to a few instructors back in college and my husband). I didn't get the editor position, but they did offer me a spot as an author, which I nervously accepted--again with lots of encouragement from my husband.

The offer was to pick a topic of my choice that I could cover over the course of five blog posts. I spent an evening thinking about it and decided to do something on Alternate History fiction, a sub genre of Science Fiction, or Historical, or Literary, depending on who you ask apparently. I chose that topic after finally beginning to read Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union", a straight up modern crime drama which just happens to have a different post World War II history (OK, so maybe that means it's not just a straight up crime drama). I'd never been interested in this genre before, but the book sparked my drive to research and I'm now interested in finding other books that I might enjoy. This new gig also led to my husband and I attending our first Marcon convention down in Columbus, OH. Which has led me to come up with my first official post for Troll in the Corner, a review of the convention. If you have a chance, give it a read and let me know what you think. I need all the feedback I can get!