Not dead yet. And silly rhymes.

I've been neglecting this journal in favor of shorter snippets on Facebook these days, but if only for my own sake, I do want to get back into it. I realized today after finding my certificate for "Best Neil Gaiman-Themed Clerihew" from Mythcon in 2004 that I had a vague memory of winning the guest of honor Clerihew contest again in 2006 when Lois McMaster Bujold was our guest. But I didn't have anything to confirm this. "Oh, I bet I blogged about it!" Sure enough, I checked my good old livejournal for August 2006 and I had indeed mentioned that I had been the recipient of a bottle of invisible champagne for my troubles.So for posterity's sake, here is the Clerihew I wrote in honor of Lois McMaster Bujold. It almost makes sense if you've read The Curse of Chalion.Lois McMaster BujoldHas conceived in her work a new moldFor a pentagonal pantheonOf gods to put dresses or pants thereon.Well...it rhymes!Sadly, I won't be at Mythcon this year in Albuquerque. I hope someone writes a really good Clerihew for Catherynne Valente!