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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 187 entries, all of them here in full.
November 15, 2007 · 86 words
Blogger Still Wonky
Blogger is still wonky. It insists my email address doesn’t exist, when it’s the same email address I’ve been using for years, and the same email address I’ve used for login since this blog started.Oddly enough, when I went to the Help Group page and was asked to log in there, it accepted my email, […]
Read entry →November 15, 2007 · 347 words
The Surgeon’s Tale
My Taos Toolbox student, Cat Rambo, has a book! Check it out. Just in time for the holidays, the perfect gift for lovers of dark fantasy… THE SURGEON’S TALEAnd Other Stories By Cat Rambo & Jeff VanderMeerOrder at http://www.kittywumpus.net/orders The Surgeon’s Tale & Other Stories is the first book by exciting ne
Read entry →November 13, 2007 · 65 words
And Speaking of Veterans
Okay, so here’s another hazard the military doesn’t talk about.Suicide.“At least 120 Americans who served in the U.S. military killed themselves per week in 2005, CBS News learned in a five-month investigation into veteran suicides. That’s 6,256 veteran suicides in one year, in 45 states.”6256. In one year. That’s more
Read entry →November 11, 2007 · 168 words
Veterans’ Day
So here we are on a holiday that celebrates the sacrifices and triumphs of our nation’s veterans. All honor to them.Alas, recently declassified information now reveals that both our government and our private sector has once again failed returning veterans. The health care scandal was bad enough, as was the various adm
Read entry →November 11, 2007 · 170 words
Ear Bugs
I am always surrounded by music, this despite the fact that I rarely seem to get around to turning on the radio or playing a CD. There is a radio station in my head, though like a Top 40 station it just plays the same songs over and over. Today I made a point of […]
Read entry →November 11, 2007 · 52 words
Omniscient Narrator Surprised
“PROVIDENCE, RI—The third-person limited omniscient voice, a narrative mode used to convey a story through the thoughts and senses of a literary character, was reportedly “caught totally off guard” after the main character was unexpectedly killed in the last chapter of the new novel Bertram’s Way. . . “The rest here.
Read entry →November 7, 2007 · 157 words
All We Need Are a Couple Wee Little Speakers. . .
“Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have builtthe world’s smallest radio out of single carbon nanotube one ten-thousandth the width of a human hair. “Researchers say the tiny radio needs only a battery and a pair ofearphones to hook listeners up with their favorite radio stations. But that’s not all
Read entry →November 7, 2007 · 159 words
Back from WFC
So in New York and in Saratoga I saw and talked to Constance Ash, Tim Holman, Alex Lencicki, Alice Emigh, Saladin Ahmed, Cat Rambo, Oz, Christopher Cevasco, Tim & Serena Powers, Nancy Kress, Geoffrey Jacoby, Joe and Gay Haldeman, Ian Tregillis, Melinda Snodgrass, Kelly Link, Jeremy Lassen, Moebius, Elizabeth Bear, L.E.
Read entry →October 29, 2007 · 169 words
Avast, Ye Mummy!
So here I am at Pat and Scott’s Halloween party. The party had an Egyptian theme: the conceit is that I am there for the Battle of the Nile. Sage Walker took the picture. I used to throw Halloween parties myself— I was born around the holiday, after all. But then once I got invited […]
Read entry →October 28, 2007 · 198 words
Geezer Test
Me-Day has dawned. Since it’s now my birthday, and the whole day is entirely about me— making it not unlike other days, actually— it’s only appropriate that I devise a test to discover if you guys are as wise as I am. The following questions are devised in order to discover if your brain is […]
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