We spent a good chunk of yesterday and today emptying out our storage locker here in Portland and ferrying things down to McMinnville where a friend has a ginormous locker that he’s letting us put things in. Free! It was really bizarre looking through the locker as we’d forgotten what a lot of the contents […]
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I’m up waiting for Rob to come home although there’s a chance that he won’t be home until tomorrow. Confused? He was driving back tonight from California, after driving there yesterday to drop off grapes. He thought he’d make it back by 12:30ish tonight but also thought he might stop and sleep instead. So, I’m
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Here we have a handy collection of photos of our new apartment’s exterior and the living, dining and office areas. We still don’t really have art on the walls yet, but I figured our family would kill me if I kept waiting. Just click the photo and you’ll zip over to the Picasa Album. Portland
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Aside from the fact that Rob keeps having to drive to California to deal with winery things, I think we are settling into Portland nicely. Through the magic of Skype, I spent two days reading the rest of Glamour in Glass to the folks back in the Puppet Kitchen. I’d gotten into the habit of
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This week at AMC I take a look at the Fantasy career of David Bowie, who has done a surprising number of fantasy films. Actually, when you consider the actor, it shouldn’t be a surprise. Check it out. AMC – Blogs – SciFi Scanner – Mary Robinette Kowal – The Fantastic Stylings of David Bowie.
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Rob had to drive down to Sacramento yesterday to pick up so FYB’s for City Winery and is on his way back up. We’ve realized that I can take the train down to Eugene to meet him. Then we can stay at a Bed and Breakfast and then spend tomorrow out in Oregon wine country
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I am very pleased to report that my first foray into the Lovecraftian mythos has sold to Innsmouth Free Press. Innsmouth Free Press is a fictional newspaper publishing faux news pieces in a Lovecraftian/Cthulhu Mythos universe, as well as original short fiction stories. Since “Prayer at Dark River” is flash fiction, I’m only going to
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Ahoy me hearties, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which be one o’ me favorite days o’ th’ year. In honour o’ this fine day, I be givin’ away a wee bit o’ booty. In the unpacking o’ our boxes, I found a stash of Shimmer‘s Pirate Issue, edited by Cap’n John Joseph
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Publisher’s Weekly has reviewed Scenting the Dark and Other Stories. Whee! Scenting the Dark and Other Stories Mary Robinette Kowal. Subterranean (<http://www.subterraneanpress.com>www.subterraneanpress.com), $25 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59606-267-2 Campbell Award–winner Kowal presents a broad spectrum of stories in her chapbook-slim first collection. The heartbreaking “Just Right,” in which a family struggles with a child’s strange behavior, isn’t
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Delighted that the gas for our stove had been turned on, I decided to make muffins yesterday. Compared to the stove in NYC, which was quite old and to the 1950s Wedgewood in our house, this oven is massive. It has a smaller external footprint but the interior seems large. Of course, the Wedgewood has
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Unexpected benefits to the new apartment are…unexpected. The drain in the kitchen sink had a little bit of a drip, so I turned in a maintenance request in the evening and the next morning, the maintenance guy turned up to do the repair. Like magic! And then, as he was leaving, he said, “Hey, turn
When I started writing these columns for AMC, the first thing I did was to define terms. In particular, we talked about the difference between fantasy and science fiction. While both types of films break the rules of our world, one explains it by magic, the other by science. The only catch is that some
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I have to say that my desk situation is vastly superior in the new apartment to either the old apartment or even the house. I’m right by one of the windows. Marlowe uses me as the highway to get to his window seat. He looooves the windows, here. I can’t blame him. There’s nothing like
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Tonight will be our first night sleeping in the apartment. I’m already excited by how quiet it is here. We’re only a block off Sandy Blvd, which is a busy street, but because of the way the apartments are constructed, there’s almost no street noise here. It is lovely. The apartment is slowly coming together.
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As a housewarming present, Michael Livingston has “Chaucered” my story “Evil Robot Monkey.” Don’t know what that means? It means, that my lovely medieval studies professorial friend has translated my story into middle English. He explains the process as he goes. In the corner of his vision, the door to his room snicked open. Sly
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