getting started

[lesser_celery]

I wanted to post something right away so folks would know there's a human here, not just a profile. I'm brand new to this, so I don't know how to make anything look pretty, like uploading a picture. But with a little help, maybe even from my friends, I'll eventually learn.

I want to use my LJ to talk about books, stories, music, history, and whatever personal or real-world things enter my consciousness as we go along. I welcome replies...not that there's anything here yet to which anyone could reply. I would appreciate it if those people I've listed as friends would say hi.

I'm only a few days removed from Readercon, which was a great experience. Officially I was there in my capacity as editor/publisher of a small press magazine I was selling at the SFPA table. But that was just a pretext. Some of you have already posted extensive comments about Readercon, and I haven't anything brilliant to add just now. I did manage to get cool books by sovay and nineweaving, along with Sean Wallace's new magazine Jabberwocky, complete with poems by sovay and rushthatspeaks. The Jabberwocky reading was one of the con highlights for me.

OK, my newbie incompetence is making me self-conscious. I'm hoping that before long I'll be able to communicate in less primitive form.

Comments

[sovay]

Strange is your language and I have no decoder . . .

Glad to have you here all the same.

[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[sovay]

So now that you have an incredibly cool icon, I think a corresponding post is in order . . .

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Thanks for adding me. And the heads up about Jabberwocky; I'm usually better about this, but somehow I'd missed this until seeing the reference in your entry.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Hi! Have been mad busy so therefore not on Internet last couple days, but happy to see you have LJ and yay.

This looks great

[(Anonymous)]

John,
I am impressed at the turn of events that has made you have greater computer prowess than I do...not that I am a whiz on the Internet like your offspring! If you are "lesser celery" but I am defining you as dominant technologically, I am lesser than celery. I have been wracking my brain on what that vegetable that would be... since celery is basically water and string. The best I have come up with is cabbage. Not the fancy purple stuff but rather the plain green stuff. What do you think?
I look forward to lots of postings here.
Melissa

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[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

A friend who is a cooking school grad rose in defense of celery, reminding me that it's a key component of mirepoix and the Cajun "holy trinity" of onions, celery, and green bell peppers. This restores my self-image. If green cabbage is lesser, then would the smaller brussel sprout be lesser still?

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[sovay]

Brussel sprouts are an abomination before the eyes of the Lord.

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[(Anonymous)]

I considered the brussel sprout but figured that if a vegetable could strike such hatred from people (as you evidence in your response) than it must have a higher standing than celery as it wields so much power!

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[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

My suggestion of parsley was shot down here at the office, where someone counter-offered turnips. Vegetables: surely they were not all created equal, but most have some redeeming social and/or nutritional value.