Murder and MayhemA Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery WritersBy D. P. Lyle, M.D. I picked this up at the library. I was looking for the answer to a question, “Is there a poison that fakes death, kind of like the one in Romeo and Juliet?” Imagine my surprise when I flipped through […]

NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month. I decided not to participate in the big project, but it was still an interesting month. I took a month off from my novel. I realized about mid-month that work wasn’t going to get any better, and started to work on starting up a part-time freelance writing business.

Andy Warhol at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. When there’s an Andy Warhol exhibition in town, you go. Or maybe you don’t go, I don’t know. I went. I’d always thought of him as a big put-on, one of those people who babble on about the meaning of what they’re doing. An earnest guy,

Harry Potter 4 Review. Oh, man. What a disappointment. You’ve probably already seen the movie–or else you’re the kind of person who’s going to go no matter what I say. Nevertheless. Don’t go! Don’t gooooooooo! Ray and I tried to go on Saturday. We got to the theater at 10 a.m. Everything up to 9:45

Seafood Allergies a Punishment from Above. God Hates Shrimp. Because Leviticus 11:9-12 and Deuteronomy 14:9-10 can’t be wrong. Update: Oops! Via Randy.

Geoff Ryman’s Air. You know, I’d been bitching about not having read any good SF lately, and then I read this: “Mae thought: “I am trapped ina car with a madman who happens to tell the truth. I am trapped in a car with someone driven so crazy by a big opinion of himself that

Over a hundred years later, I get the joke. In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol writes: “Then you should say what you mean.” the March Hare went on. “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least — at least I mean what I say — that’s the same thing, you know.” “Not the same thing a

Sex Ed. Scarleteen. Mostly teen girls. Funny at times. Sex, Etc. Mostly for teens. Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States All grown up and professional-sounding.

Bruce Willis and that other guy in Colorado Springs. This last Wednesday, I took Ray down to the cheap theatre to see Valiant. I had been planning to get a cup of coffee from the Bear Rock Cafe and wander around for an hour or so before the movie — but BRC was closed: Movie

Delight. “That was also the year I stopped because I realized I was a dork for still going…” My future sister-in-law, Erica, writes about Halloween.