Buzz on over here and I think you’ll giggle a bit too.

Why?  Because two of my many favorite podcasters are totally NOT safe for work.  As can be discovered here in this brilliant advertisement for the upcoming Parsec Awards.  Poor Hutch.

Let’s keep supporting the podcasters, nominate your favorite qualifying podcast for a Parsec today!

Optioned is not a promise of production though.  We need to keep supporting Hutchins work if we want to see 7th Son brought to life on film.  I know once Personal Effects - Dark Arts comes out I’ll be ordering my copy, and I’m still anxiously awaiting my chance to buy 7th Son in novel form.

So our hats are off to you JC, and we look forward to more of your work.

Been reading.  Heavily.  Majorly.  About everything else is back burner.  All my podcasts are not safe for work and we can’t wear a headphone since we’re on headsets.  So I turn to the next best thing and those are my books.

In the last months I’ve read every Blood book Anne Bishop’s written, including her new one, The Shadow Queen.  Excellent read, was well worth the money, but I’m actually looking forward to getting away from the SaDiablo family eventually.

Ripped through the Kushiel saga; all six books that Jacqueline Carey has put out so far.  Her new one is due out this summer and I’m rather looking forward to it.  She has a mystery out too, but I haven’t been able to get my hands on it… yet.

My accomplishment though… is getting my husband reading.  He tore through every RA Salvatore book I owned, eating the words written about Drizzet like they were candy.  And pouted when he ran out of books.  We just got The Lone Drow and The Two Swords in today, which made him happy.  In the meantime he’s also read through Anne Bishop’s Sebastian and Belladonna and said she needed to lay off the Blood books and get some more from that world written.  I’ve also entangled him into the world of Harry Dresden.  Next I think we’ll tackle some Tee Morris or Mur Lafferty.

Ah yes, speaking of the podcasters….  I ordered my copy of my favorite Scott Sigler book The Rookie.  Have you?  If you haven’t, don’t make my mistake and be in such a hurry to make sure you get a copy that you forget to ask him to sign it.  I feel like crying at this point.  Hopefully he’ll be buzzing through Texas again once it’s out.

And while we’re on the subject of the podcasters, JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects – Dark Arts is coming out this summer too.  I’m in a hurry to get my hands on that one too.

Reading…  reading…  ah yes…  Twilight.  The whole fugging series and I blame two of my favorite co-workers.  I have to admit I wasn’t expecting the story to be as enjoyable and as engrossing as I found it to be.  I’ve gone through it twice now in less than thirty days.  The film wasn’t bad…  hurried…  but not bad at all.  Fantastic soundtrack.

I think I’m running out of dust now.  Think I’ll see if I can’t clear up the cobwebs and get some more posts up soon.  For now, if you’re going to waste time… waste it well.

PS Big thanks to Joe Cottonwood for the autographed copy of Clear Heart.  Have burned through it twice too.

Whether you cast your vote for McCain or Obama or someone else doesn’t matter, what matters is that you vote.  That you express your opinion on who needs to lead this great nation of ours.  Today we get to help make change happen.

The only real statement I’ll make here is for my friends in California.  Please vote NO on Prop 8. The world is discriminating enough, we don’t need to make it any worse.

Go vote, I promise you that it is time very well wasted.

If you haven’t gotten the gist of my intent yet, let me spell it out plainly.  It’s been two weeks since there’s been a post on the site at all, and even longer since it was something meaningful and not random movie trivia.  I simply don’t have the drive for it anymore, not while I’m working 40 hours a week and being out of the house for at least 10 hours a day for five of seven days.  And those last two, the only thing I want to do is kick back with a book, a podcast, some new music and not think about work, of any kind.

Am I shutting down completely?  No, not at all.  I’ll still be throwing the random, brilliant and blatant advertisements up for my favorite podcasters, but I make no promise of a schedule.  I’m on pins and needles with anticipation for Personal Effects Dark Art and still have at least a nine month wait - I think.  Then there’s Contagious due out this winter and whatever Mur, Nathan, Tee, Pip, Edward, Nick and many others have up their sleeves.

Time Well Wasted was my job while I didn’t have paying employment, now it’s just too much for me.  Through it I have gotten to know and do things for some fantastic people with brilliant stories to tell.  These would be the podcasters I follow around like some random rabid fangirl.  And while I’m not pulling the plug completely on the site, I’m pulling in the focus and will continue to write about the podcasting community in my own time.  I’ll still be following these people like the random, rabid fangirl that I am, what can I say, feed me a good story and I’m addicted.

As for the rest of it, I’ll post what things I have lingering in my drafts over the next week and we’ll see what happens from there.  In the meantime, there’s not much more to say.  I want to thank everyone, from the bottom of my heart, for reading and enjoying the site, for letting me be part of their advertisement régime, and for producing some fantastic content.  It’s my hope that I might still be welcome when I ask if I can help them out with a bit of advertisement and review, and maybe a hug or two if I can ever get to one of their events.

More than anything, and I’m not trying to separate anyone from anyone else, I owe a heartfelt thank you to JC Hutchins and his amazing fans for helping me and my family out during our hardship this summer.

Like I said before, I’m not completely shutting down, I think to do so would break my heart, so I hope you won’t remove us from your feeds.  I’ll still be around on Twitter and I’ll post there when something pops up here.  I just can’t promise a regular posting schedule anymore and for that I apologize.

So stay tuned…  I may post something brilliant at any time.

Thanks, JC.  Nice find.

So, now that I have a day off and there’s only 3 kittehs in the house with me, its time to open up iTunes and dust off the podcasts.  So I’m playing catch up today with the hope of getting some new articles written up for you all.

What am I listening to today?

New World Orders
UltraCreatives
Obsidian
Infected
Nocturnal
Chasing the Bard
Starkeeper
Metamor City
…and anything else I’ve missed, which I’m sure is a lot.

It’s a long list and I’m hoping to get through it all today.  We’ll see what we see.  I may save Starkeeper for when Sloane’s home with me, Star Wars nut that he is.

In the meantime, if you have a bit of time to waste, I’ll point you back to the list above.  Anything off of it is a winner.

For now, I’m going to enjoy my day off from answering phones.

Of the films staring David Duchovny which came closest to spoofing his roll as Fox Mulder in the X-Files?

The answer was Evolution, which is probably one of my absolute favorite films when I need a corny pick me up comedy. Special thanks to jundar and Cynthia for for posting their answers and adding some extra trivia as well. Congratulations to everyone who answered correctly.

Your question this week is:

In what movie did Heath Ledger play a deceptive squire dancing to David Bowie?

1. 10 Things I Hate About You
2. A Knight’s Tale
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. The Brothers Grimm

There’s your trivia dose for the week. Think you have the answer, leave it in the comments. Remember, just because IMdB is available doesn’t mean you should use it.  :D  I’ll post the answer with next week’s question.