August 2002

Guest blogging by Ray. -bvvvnb n cxzzaz k j6ytr, ms nem zxc ccq`t5we (Now the keys are all spitty.)

Fingers crossed, pointed shoes not dropping… Joe and his roomie have come to the point of irreconcilable differences. (Having decided that the differences are irreconcileable, Joe’s started on the admirable work of getting over it. Most impressive.) The roomie is moving out. Unless some other shoe drops and crushes the house (in a strange reversal

Neil Gaiman. A neat little essay he wrote on his new children’s book, Coraline, at Borders.

Hm… I’ve always been moody. Not as much as some, obviously; I don’t have bipolar disorder or anything. No, just moody. Nothing to whine home about. My musing of the day is that perhaps my mood swings are the reason I find Buddhism and Taoism so appealing. It’s not that I don’t want to have

Raynotes. Here are some things I want to remember: She and the cat get along now. She’ll sit beside the cat and pat him (not gently) until…well, pretty much until she gets so excited that she throws herself over backwards and lies there giggling to herself. She tongue-kisses herself in the mirror whenever we put

Reviews. The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster; Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling. The Phantom Tollbooth. I was first introduced to Norton Juster by my younger brother, Andy, who, when faced with the task of finding me a birthday present a couple of years ago, wandered

Life is Good. You know life is good when your roommate’s psycho minipoodle bites you on the hand, causing multiple puncture wounds and a loose flap of skin, but the dog’s just a big softie, really, when it bit the roomie’s sister, she didn’t get rabies, after all, and you have to go to the

Ray. First, let me note that she isn’t talking yet. But Ray, at 9 1/2 months, has entered the world of language. She knows what a word means, and that word is “kitty.” She probably has a good idea about “no,” too, but she won’t admit it 🙂 I got her to search the house

Joe’s House. Joe’s place is a place of nevertheless. It should suck to be over at Joe’s. It’s not babyproofed. There are two non-disciplined dogs and a spoiled kid running around. The roomie situation is tense. The floor is covered with innumerable tidbits that Ray can’t have. The backyard is tiered, with stone steps and

Doot Da Doo! The new edition of Banshee Studios, Lughnasadh, is up and out! Doyce won the short story contest with “Vayland Rd.” And, of course, yours truly wrote a book review for Stories of Your Lives and Others, by Ted Chiang. I haven’t read anything else yet 🙂