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.

Fortune cookie. “He that does not understand the bitter does not understand the sweet. Lucky numbers 2, 15, 21, 47.” –That one’s been sitting on my desk at work for a while. The weirdest fortune cookie I ever got said, “You like apples.” That was it, no lucky numbers, no LEARN TO SPEAK CHINESE on