I’ve been using the English place name generator for the estates and towns in a couple of stories. I just asked it for one for Mr. Dunkirk’s estate and it offered me, “West Rootsex.” No. No, I don’t think so. Edited to add: The next one was “Sex cot in the Vale.” Really, it’s usually […]
Oh my. I just realized that, in Shades of Milk and Honey, I’ve created a world where it’s quite likely that shadow puppetry would never have arisen. In fact, I think that puppetry and mask work may only have come up as a form of sham glamour. This is very strange for me. I’m thinking
Today I waited around the house for my DSL connection to be hooked up because Qwest said that I had to be home between nine and five, which was a nice, narrow window. It was okay, because I also had to be here for the gutter guys to come give me an estimate, and to
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Andrew at PuppetVision has a great post on the giant marionette that was supposedly in Reykjavik which has some cool behind the scenes photos of the standard sized marionette on a greenscreen.
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This is one of my two cats. He’s a mask artist. When he was a kitten I gave him one of those string ornaments to play with. He used to bite the edge of it, and it would flip, almost going over his head. One evening, as I was hosting a dinner party, one of
Your Vocabulary Score: A Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary! You must be quite an erudite person. How’s Your Vocabulary?
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Three people today have sent me emails saying that they hope I’m surviving the rain and storms. It’s sunny with blue skies today, and only scattered clouds. So, I’m fine. No problems to report here, no matter what the news agencies tell you.
Modern Mechanix » Typewriter Spaces Words To Fill Lines Really. What girl wouldn’t want one of these? Such a cool gadget. Although, it does make me very conscious of all the retyping people used to have to do. I dimly remember this from when I was typing on our IBM Selectric, but we had some
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Today I did laundry, washed the dishes, took out the garbage and the recycling, and mailed two manuscripts, a book and a package of licorice. I made appointments with my eye doctor for a check-up, with gutter repair services for estimates and an arborist to have our trees pruned. I also arranged to have our
I invited a group of friends over last night to let people know I was back in Portland. It was nice to see everyone, but it was a little strange to set up for the party. I went to the grocery store and could read everything without having to think about it. I’m also out
Shimmer The Autumn 2006 issue of Shimmer: Available November 11. Welcome to our second year! The Autumn 2006 issue features our interview with Campbell-award winner John Scalzi. We’ve got new fiction from Shimmer veterans Angela Slatter and Aliette de Bodard, as well as stories from Monica Eiland, John Parke Davis, Bryan Lindsey, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Kathy
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Michele Lee tagged me with this little game. Each player of this game starts with the “6 weird things about you”. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged
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So far being back in Portland feels very much like make-believe. My favorite coffee shop still has the card that I left last year, and so I’m continuing to get stamps for my decafs as if I had never left. The weather is the same, and not that different from what I left in Iceland,
Today is my father-in-law’s birthday! I hope it’s a happy one. I’m sorry that Rob and I are so far away.
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