I biked down to Hawthorne to have lunch with Jay Lake, so that he could sign the limited edition chapbooks of his story Christmas Season. The wind was pretty ferocious and it was like biking uphill the whole way there, which was frustrating, since that’s the downhill direction. By the time I got home, two […]
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John Scalzi pointed out this page of panoramic photos of New Year’s Eve. The one for Reykjavik is up by Halgrimskirkja (the big pointy church you can see from everywhere) and has sound. It’s not the same as being there, but looking at the rockets going off in the middle of the crowd certainly gives
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For years, I’ve had a standing date with Sue and Albert on New Year’s Day for black-eyed peas and greens. Oh, and cornbread. See, Albert is from east Tennessee, and totally gets the whole traditional food thing. Sue, on the other hand, has a long-standing tradition of champagne and caviar. It is surprising how well
I must say that bringing in the New Year by making other people happy is a fine thing. This was a wedding cruise and everyone was nice and cheerful. The bride hugged me when she left. It was fun and all, but now, I’m going upstairs to my own groom and welcome in the New
Rob and I made sushi today, which is our New Year’s tradition. I’m off to work on the boat for a wedding, which will be the first time in years that I’ve stayed up until midnight. I’m strangely looking forward to it. Happy New Year!
On Livia Llewellyn‘s blog she goes through her year end summary and then talks about rejections in exactly the same terms that I think about them. Rejected: I don’t keep stats for rejections. In fact, I have a shocking admission: I don’t even keep my rejections. Listen, I spent twenty years being rejected by THOUSANDS
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It’s not too late to get a subscription to Shimmer so you can have a copy of Jay Lake’s limited edition, signed chapbook. We’ve only printed sixty-six of these. You know you want to hold that glossy color cover and turn the lovely archival quality recycled paper interior pages. Think about settling into a chair
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I’ve had three different people ask me how my day was, to which I answered “fine.” They then pressed for details expecting, no doubt, me to regail them with tales of puppets gone bad. Alas. I’m working on a spreadsheet, which I explained. Two of the people did not believe me when I explained that
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Tell me that you don’t want one of the crayons carved by Pete Goldlust. Sure… I don’t know what I’d do with one, but they are so pretty.
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I just found out that the Doctor Who anthology I’m in has been officially announced on the Big Finnish website. Doctor Who: Destination Prague is available for pre-orders and will come out in March, 2007. The cover image isn’t up yet, but Steven Savile, editor, says that it should be out any day now. I’ll
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The other day, a mysterious package appeared at my doorstep. Suspicious, I kicked it a few times. Nothing happened. I bent over, took a look at the return mailing address and it was from one “Mary Robinette Kowal.” Perhaps you’re curious about what’s inside.
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“When I can’t sleep of a night, I count my blessings. I’d rather do that than count sheep.” –Grandma Jackson, Christmas Day 2006 101 years old
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I’m not often jealous of my friends, but in this case… oh yes. Thank heavens, Santa has already come, or I’d wind up on the naughty list for my covetous thoughts. In the Sunday New York Times, I learned that the original stop-motion Rudolph and Santa puppets are on exhibit at the Center for Puppetry
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I’d come and sing on your front porch, but most of you live to far away, so here’s my Christmas music station on Pandora. Merry Christmas!
I finally managed to get a Christmas tree yesterday on my way home from work. I’d tried to find a place that had a tabletop tree and finally gave up. I went back to one of the places I’d visited before and purchased a regular tree and had them cut it down to a three