A somewhat goofy mini-collection of stuff I’ve been reading, stuff I’ve been thinking about and oh, some completely random crap.

Basically the stuff that never gets mentioned here because I’m not the kind of person who can just make some teeny little point. Not into the whole brevity thing, as the Dude would say.

Actually, I’m under the strict compulsion to write ten pages about anything on my mind. So this is me. Practicing brevity.

There’s stuff to read.

There are Twitter links.

There are recommendations.

It’s Wednesday practically almost Wednesday, people. Selma and I have no sense of time. But we have a lot to say. Mostly me, though. Because Selma is a duck.

Item! Post No. 23 in a series that is too sexy for its shirt. Or would be if it had one.

Item! Do you know Kirstin? Because you should.

She’ll probably kill me for mentioning this but this is fantastic.

I don’t even really like video stuff and I watch everything she does.

She does this thing called You Digest and this is what it is:

In a world of infinite media options, you are what you browse, hear, game, read, and watch. But even information omnivores can get overloaded if they let all that raw media go unprocessed.

That’s where youdigest comes in — to cure your case of digital-age dyspepsia.

It’s a digest both in the traditional sense (I summarize the day’s top stories and their sources) and in my interpretive sense (I introduce an idea that I hope creates a whole out of all of those disparate items).

I really liked this one about standardizing standards. But this primarily practical one is pretty great too.

Anyway, Kirstin is one of my favorites. And she should be one of yours too.

And she’s @kirstinbutler on Twitter.

Item! This post is the happy!

Gina Loree Marks is sweet and quirky and kind and just generally my kind of person.

I mostly know her from Twitter but recently she wrote this post about Hot Buttered Epiphanies (the kind that come with extra awesomesauce).

So yeah, she wrote about my baby Shiva Nata and she wrote about it beautifully and I am super happy that she is joining the ranks of the Shivanauts because yay!

Also, got to love her attitude.

“I can’t wait to make an arm-and-leg-flailing ass out of myself.”

Very very cool.

She’s @gloreebe88 on Twitter.

Item! Exactly! No, exactly!

This perfect little article from the Onion is called Area Man Not Exactly Sure Why Doctor Needed Him Undressed For That.

And it’s such a tiny, succinct, graceful summing up of why I can’t stand going to the doctor.

“He asked me about my smoking and my sleep patterns and stuff, then he looked in my ears and throat, and checked my heartbeat with his stethoscope, and that was it,” the baffled, nude Lyons said.

Right? Exactly.

Item! I am in love with this site!

It’s called the River Junction Trade Company and it’s basically what a Victorian website would look like if the Victorians had had websites.

And this is so where I am getting all my clothes now. Oh. My. God. The best.

Item! I’m on the blogroll over at Jenny the Bloggess!

Okay, so are six thousand other people there too but hooray and I didn’t even beg to be there.

Whoah.

Crazy.

You already read Jenny, right?

If not, start with THIS:

“If anything, I’M being exploited”

The most genius answer ever to many a finger-wagging lecture about how you shouldn’t blog about … whatever it is.

Item! Introducing the Decoder Ring Theater!

Actually, I’m kind of hoping you already know about them.

Because yay!

But if you aren’t familiar yet with the Decoder Ring Theatre, here’s what it is:

A crew of Canadians producing adventure serials in a kind of ‘30s/’40s Golden Age of radio style… and you can listen to them as podcasts and they are all kinds of excellent.

There’s the noir private eye (Black Jack Justice), the rooftop dwelling caped crusader (Red Panda), the heroic space jockey (Deck Gibson), and so on.

And nothing makes me happier than hearing the voice of … Trixie Dixon, girl detective.

It’s pretty impossible not to become a fan, even if you aren’t an old-timey radio buff. My gentleman friend got me on board and yeah, they’re great.

As he puts it, they evoke the good ol’ days with great respect … and a big fat wink.

Item! Sale price of “Stuff Havi Thinks You Should Know” ends Thursday!

Today (and maybe tomorrow?) is the last chance to get the homestudy version of the Stuff Havi Thinks You Should Know About Testimonials & Referrals course at the old price.

Because the price goes up Thursday. I’d be more specific but Peggy (one of my assistants) will be doing it and I haven’t the slightest idea when she’s doing it.

There are recordings. There are examples. There are things I didn’t promise in the class but gave anyway like ebooklets. And six “sample asks” that you can make your own. There’s even a transcript on its way.

Take a look if you need ways to get people to talk up your cool thing without having to actually ask them to or to feel all awkward and weird about it.

Also: there’s a significant discount for regular blog readers. You just need to know who Selma is. And I know you know who Selma is.

That is all.

Happy reading.

And happy (almost, kind of, eventually) Blustery Windsday. See you tomorrow.

On actual Wednesday. When I’m (possibly) less confused.