Rob and I are celebrating our seventh anniversary today. One of my rituals is that I completely unplug and am unavailable to the rest of the world. In fact, this is an automated entry. La! It’s like time-travel. I don’t mind if we miss birthdays or other holidays, but our anniversary is very important to […]
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13:26 Good lord. I have the day off. What does one do with this wacky thing called free time? # 14:00 I am going to take a nap, because I can. So there. # 15:13 I’m heading out to buy Rob’s anniversary present. Have I waited until the last minute? Why yes, yes I have.
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One of the sites I enjoy reading because they talk about theory in intelligent ways is SF Novelists. Today’s post, by Marie Brennan, is about the concept of practicing as a writer. To me, writing feels kind of the same way. Sure, I can always revise; if I realize that thing my characters did last
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I spent the afternoon and much of the evening with Michael Schupbach, the puppet designer for MacBeth, as we did last touches on the puppets. I am pleased to say that, barring disaster, we are finished. We went out for dinner afterwards and a much-deserved beer. I think both of us felt like we’d been
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12:01 I’m heading to the puppet kitchen for touchups on MacBeth puppets. Should be the last day with them. # 13:31 I love the fabric district. # 14:00 There’s a busker on my regular commute who is always grinning as he performs. Totally brightens my day. # 16:08 Making my own blackwrap because the gaffers
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. . I’m heading for my first Philcon this year. I figure it’s close plus the SFWA regional meeting is there and I’d like to attend. Here’s my preliminary schedule. Friday 10:00PM Websites for Writers – Event #16 Saturday 12:00PM Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction 2:00PM Science Fiction and Romance 3:00-5:00PM Crafting: Hand Puppets (Yep,
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My new column is up at AMC, Fantasy Movies for Every Step of Your Relationship Once upon a time, my brother called to ask if I’d seen Pan’s Labyrinth. I had, and I raved about it, carefully avoiding spoilers. Later I found out that he’d taken a girl to see the movie as a first
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01:03 Okay… I left work early so I could get to bed at a decent hour and yet somehow it’s 1 am again. # 10:26 Rob’s day off so we’re being lazy together for a bit. Then I’ll go to the puppet kitchen. # 11:56 Going for a walk with Rob. Life is good. #
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PodCastle #33, The Girl With the Sun In Her Head by Jeremiah Tolbert is up with an introduction by me. I very much enjoyed this story and think that you’ll enjoy listening to it. Emelia’s home is in a city where only children are allowed to draw graffiti on the crumbling walls. The old bricks
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PoconoRecord.com put together a slideshow on the dangers of plastic bags. Intellectually, I knew a lot of this and already use cloth shopping bags when I go to the grocery store, but seeing the pictures… well, I’m a visual person. I just rolled up a lightweight canvas bag and stuck it in my purse for
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10:04 Heading for the puppet kitchen. Actually working on something besides witches and dead babies today. # 17:50 My eyes hurt from painting the little tiny things I’m painting. I think it might be time to get new glasses. # 22:15 Calling it a night. The tininess of this project makes my eyes cross. #
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What I said I need a mounted woodcock. Someone stole the bag of extra body parts. Why are you puckering? I had to unplug the time machine. Where are the monkey balls? It’s between the barfing panda and the orange fuzzy man. I’m really looking forward to mounting his head. I just need to cut
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01:14 Attaching the bones to the glove. I’m concerned that I might have to do this with it ON my hand. Bad, since the operation involves hot glue. # 01:34 Missing five finger bones. Cutting them out now. # 02:03 Finger bones cut, covered, painted and attached. Connected the forearm to the upper arm. I
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There’s a tendency for people to focus on things that go wrong in their life, or the ways in which they’ve made a mistake. On balance though, we get more right than wrong, it’s just that a lot of the things we get right we take for granted. Or they are too small to feel
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I just ran across this article that I clipped as part of the research that I was doing for “Waiting for Rain” about how China planned to halt rain for Olympics and it occurred to me that you might be interested in some of the other research behind the story. Wines Sula Vineyard “India’s leading
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