I’ve been sick. That’s pretty much it. I spent most of Friday and Saturday crashed on the couch watching old movies in between bouts of unconsciousness. I did get out a little bit despite the circumstances; I supervised an after-hours school field trip with the eldest to see children’s author Graham Salisbury speak at an […]

Ever since I heard about it yesterday morning, I’ve been casting about for a proper way to talk about the Komen foundation’s decision to stop donating funds to Planned Parenthood (which does a lot of work to make early screenings for breast cancer available to all kinds of women), as a result of their “new […]

Although I’ve been “blogging” in some form since 1995 or so, well before the word ‘blog’ was coined in 1997, in the form of various crappy personal “home pages” and a relatively popular unofficial fan-page for the band The Badlees at the height of their commerical success, the project which you find yourself currently reading […]

Presented forthwith are several short notices of a personal nature. Feel free to enjoy: – Thanks to the kind reminders from my amazing convention friends via the various social networking services, my head’s kind of been in con space all week. As it stands, there are only 36 hours or so until I arrive at […]

….Oh My.

Only a week late on this piece from the WaPo, but I only just found it this morning: These Games may seem barbaric to some, but they’re a modern tradition. They get the Shoppers in from all districts of the nation, train and groom them, and then release them on the fateful morning towards the […]

I actually passed 50k on November 16, which says something. There might be a decent novella in the mess. I’ll get back to you after I play with editing.

I’m not a fan of the Twilight series. It’s not written for me, and I understand that. I’m not opposed to the series on any militant level, though I still find a lot of the ideas presented terribly troubling, and have always suspected that these troublesome ideas could potentially really mess up a young, impresionable […]

As you may be aware, dear reader, I’m a big fan of the kind of pop culture meta piece like this one from (surprise) Amanda Marcotte about what she perceives as the ascendance of mass-market mediocrity in modern American popular culture as being inherently more “worthy” than properties with more limited, niche appeal. I include […]

I finished several things yesterday. It feels like I accomplished something. writing my NaNoWriMo project. A solid 50k + word first draft. Might be a good 35k word novella in there with some judicious editing. a first read-through on a huge pile of documentation. Useful and necessary for an ongoing extracurricular project. reading a book. […]