I used to think that dogs with their heads wrapped in plastic cones were the most comically ridiculous sight imaginable. That was until last night, when I came home from work to see Ella in her cone in the wake of her spaying. There is only one sight more pathetic
As of today, with this review of Bruce Sterling's The Zenith Angle, Salon.com begins a regular biweekly SF review schedule: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/04/30/sterling/ Cool.
Okay, here's another one that really puts me in a fit of pique. I keep reading how something has "peaked" somebody's interest or curiosity or hunger. I guess it's all downhill from there. But I'm one to talk. I just
I knew I'd be nervous, but I really didn't anticipate how badly my hands would shake when I stepped up to the podium. I have plenty of experience speaking in public; when you grow up Mormon, you give at least half a dozen talks in church
My sister-in-law reports that my brother Tim is now being debriefed—in Maine! If not yet home, at least he's on American soil. Genuine non-colonial American soil, that is.
Separated at birth?
Lest I acquire a reputation for beating up exclusively on innocent correspondents, how about this horrifying sentence from Salon? Diana, queen of the English-gossiping world in the last two decades of the 20th century, the celebrity princess, was anything but discrete herself (CBS was responding to rival NBC'
Finally, one more bit of news. My short story "Why I Think I'll Be Staying Home Tonight" is out in the new issue of Electric Velocipede. Grab a copy now—and/or subscribe!
My brother may in fact, after another reversal, be coming home soon after all! We got the word yesterday from his wife; ❦stmachiavelli forwards me this story from the Deseret News with more info: Utah's 1457th coming home Telephone calls giving the welcome news began arriving from the
From my agent, a generally positive assessment of the third draft of The Accidental Terrorist: I've read your revision and I'm pretty darn happy with it. I think you've done a good job synthesizing and compacting huge swaths of material into a much more
I had dinner with some SF-world friends early in the evening yesterday: John Klima, Will Smith, and Gavin Grant. Chinese food at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge on Canal Street. Not great, but good. Then we walked up to KGB to hear Rick Bowes read a section from
This morning we walked Ella to her new vet (recommended by close friends with pets in Astoria) and stayed with her through a quick exam. Then we, er, left her. She's being spayed as we speak. █████ was quite distressed as we left the vet and worries that Ella
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