I forgot to mention I was Death for Halloween. in New Orleans! I think appropriate, though I did not eat at the Green Goddess.




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Leatherbeaten is a small Canadian company that has had two distinct, but overlapping, phases in its 11 years. First, as a premium whip maker dealing almost exclusively with high end fetish stores. Once the famed whip makers' curses (carpal tunnel, tendonitis) began to kick in, they decided on a change of direction and have since greatly expanded their line to include many more mainstream pieces. Fortunately, this shift came as BDSM itself was becoming more mainstream, and Leatherbeaten has been working ever since to help raise the standard of gear. They set the bar by using the best leathers and hardware, and offering an unconditional warranty. We’ve even heard that Billy and his partner Kristina rode down to the US from Canada on a motorcycle stocked with his wares, selling to shops in person. He’s got an unconventional business style. Surely, there are some stories to be told about those early days!

Fetlife - which I would tout as "the Facebook of kinksters" - is having a fun holiday drawing in which you can win all sorts of fabulous kinky prizes.

Check it out! (Site NSFW)

Good luck!

**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

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Hey everyone! I am so excited about this comic I've been doing lately and I wanted to share. It's set in post-apocalyptic NYC in the year 2003 and is called Angel. It's inspired by 70s and 80s action movies/comics. I was inspired by the feeling of being a kid and seeing these movies that are like "In the year 2010 when humanity has been decimated by...." and you're all "wow! 2010 is so far away!" But, you know, it's not. So it's like 75% tribute, 25% poking fun of these various tropes. It's totally meant to be ridiculous, know it's ridiculous, and still be ok with being ridiculous.

Anyway. So far, it's been a page a day, M-F on my website. I'm past page 50 now, so enough to give you a feeling and good run-in for the story if you start from the beginning. It'll keep being updated M-F until it's finished (I'm guessing 150+ pages total).



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The 34th Fetish Fair Fleamarket(tm) is almost here, ( Exciting News )
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Fetish Fair Fleamarket™ #34
Providence, RI
February 12 - 14, 2010

http://www.nelaonline.org/

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,