Oooo! Oooo! If you are willing to stay up late, you can watch the Merrie Monarch Festival. It’s the annual hula competition in Hawaii and goes all week. Rob just turned it on and I’ve abandoned my work to watch with him.
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I spent today getting props together for Steve and Idi a new play that I’m working on for Rattlestick theater. In the afternoon, Rob and I went down to pick up a rug for the Bully Pulpit, a play about Teddy Roosevelt. In the evening, Katherine and I headed down to the Peter and the
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Katherine and I just got home from seeing Spring Awakening on Broadway which was an outstanding production. Smart, with an excellent cast, the musical is both moving and funny. It’s based on an 1891 play by Frank Wedekind which deals with themes that I can’t even imagine audiences watching back then. Sexuality, puberty, homoeroticism and
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Every sale makes me happy, but some sales really tickle me. This is one is a very happy thing. My first three sales were to The First Line so I have a very soft spot for them. The magazine has a simple premise. The first line of a story is so important, but if you
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Yesterday, I sold “Scenting the Dark” to Apex Digest and felt like, given everything, that I should hold onto the news until after April Fool’s was over. Many thanks to those of you who read a draft of this. Your comments helped me enormously. Edited to add: The story will be in the next issue
For anyone who didn’t click on the last link in my post about the Space Station, it went to the wikipedia entry on April Fool’s day. Now, I know that April Fool’s is not everyone’s favorite holiday, but I have always enjoyed a good prank. My favorite ones are the slow, dawning awareness ones. But,
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Google introduced gDayâ„¢ with MATEâ„¢ in Australia, but the technology isn’t available in the US. Darn. Because this would be handy. Search tomorrow’s web, today! Google Australia has introduced a new feature, enabling you to search content on the internet before it is created. Steps 1. Enter your search term [e.g. footy scores] 2. Select
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The spate of good news seems unending. I’ve been keeping part of this under my hat because I was afraid of jinxing it, but just got word that it’s official. Many of you are familiar with Launch Pad, the workshop funded by NASA to introduce writers to the wonders of actual astronomy. While reading about
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I was so horrified about the Braves’ game that I completely forgot to tell you about taking Katherine to Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. One of her school chums told her that if she did anything in NYC, she had to go there. I was, to say the least, skeptical but I am nothing if not
I uploaded to the new WordPress 2.5 last night and was aggravated to discover that my beloved crossposter was incompatible with the new version. Fortunately, my googlefu is strong and I found a hacked version of the plugin that works around the incompatibility issue. For those of you who also crosspost from WordPress, you can
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Now, it should be obvious that I’m not really a sports scene sort of person. That said, if there’s a sport I enjoy, it’s baseball and the Braves are the only team that I’ve ever seriously followed. So I was not dreading going to see the game with Katherine. I called around, found a place
Katherine has arrived safely. Her flight got in twenty minutes early, so she had already claimed her bag by the time I got there. Flights arriving early! Since when does that happen? We’re heading out in a quest for a bagel and Diet Dr. Pepper in a bottle.
I think I wrote almost all of this story on the subway. 2500 words of clockwork. It’s in a password protected post, but it’s the usual password. Don’t know what that is? Drop me a line and I’ll tell ya. And here’s the teaser. The clockwork chickadee was not as pretty as the nightingale. But
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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My niece is coming to visit us this week and my brother has informed me that she will be a sad girl if she can’t watch the Braves game on Sunday. Rob and I don’t have a television. I don’t suppose that, among my NY based readers, one of you already plans on watching the
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