I’ll admit that this post exists largely because my new toy let’s me blog while at the salon. [1. This bit is just a note to myself for next time, because I am daft with names. Rick did my haircut and Larry did the color.] I promise not to do it often, since it’s largely […]
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As happy as I am to see a puppet related item make national news, I wish it wasn’t this. There are many ways to measure California’s tanking economy: an 8.2 percent unemployment rate; a multibillion-dollar state budget gap; threatened endowments of the city’s museums, causing some cultural institutions to nearly default on mortgages; and the
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I’m delighted that “Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in Mr. Horton’s anthology, Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2009. This is the second of my stories that he’s taken and I’m thrilled that he continues to enjoy what I do. Here’s a snippet of Evil Robot Monkey, as a teaser. Sliding his hands
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I think someone needs to take the batteries out of this thing. I can’t even explain what is happening with it.
In the comments on the 100 things meme, David Loftus wrote, “Was particularly charmed by ‘saved a favorite child toy’ would love to know what that was for other folks.” You know what? I would too. So let me introduce you to Lassie. That’s the extremely tattered stuffed animal in the corner there. She’s a
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I read this month’s audio fiction for Clarkesworld Magazine, “A Woman’s Best Friend” by Robert Reed. I think the story is utterly charming and that it’s the perfect speculative fiction treat for December.
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My wunder-agent, Jennifer Jackson just posted the following. My client Alison Kent has organized a fundraiser event: For Jo Leigh, who lost her husband to cancer earlier this year. Like many writers, Jo Leigh and her husband had no health coverage, and so Alison (and others) put a call out to the writing community for
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My cousin runs a wonderful online shop called EyeItalia where she blogs about life in Italy as well as has gorgeous gift items. This week’s entry is on Italian cheeses. It’s full of enticing details that a) make me hungry and b) will probably turn up in a story. Check this out and then swing over
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According to the genderanalyzer, there’s a 99% chance that my blog is written by a man.
Rob and I have been watching Torchwood and trying to figure out the appeal. Last night as we were heading out to Fabulous Girl’s birthday celebration, I finally realized what the appeal is and why it wasn’t hitting me as strongly as other people. Behold, I present a pictorial demonstration. Please note that this is
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In case you can’t tell, I’ve decided to give myself a vacation. I’m working on things, but not very hurriedly or consistently this weekend. In fact, I think an embarrassingly sizable part of the day consisted of tweaking my new G1. I luuuuuuuv my new phone. It is very shiny. Rob got home at 3:30
I had coffee and a hamentash at the Hungarian Pastry Shop with Fabulous Girl. It was nice to catch up with her and feel like a grownup with a social life, you know? Afterwards, we went into the cathedral of St. John the Divine, which I’d somehow not managed to go into yet, despite living
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My column at AMCtv.com is up and this week I’m asking the question, “Why do fantasy films always kill the parents?” If you’re like most Americans, you spent yesterday saturated in turkey and surrounded by family. This is the season for family, and as much as we might love our families, there are will be
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Today we took it totally easy. We’d had invitations to go to friends homes for Thanksgiving and turned them down because having two whole days with nothing on the schedule seemed much more appealing. I made blueberry walnut muffins for breakfast. Around mid-day I realized that we basically had apples and some salsa in the
Matthew Jarpe, whose blog I quite enjoy, posted this meme today. He says: In RADIO FREEFALL I used the word meme to describe a mind virus that forces a person to obsess over a single thought until he commits suicide. In retrospect I should have picked another word. Since I wrote the book that word