(I’m hearing Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element when I read the subject there. Yes, I probably could have found a sound clip and included it, but I’m counting on your imaginations and memories here.) Well, I finally got around…
Author Recommendation: Nicola Griffith
I read Griffith’s first novel, Ammonite, shortly after it came out. It was, for many years, the best first novel I’d ever read. I also read one of the Bending the Landscape anthologies she edited with Stephen Pagel, and it…
SBQ, Heat, Cell Phone
It’s been a while since I answered one of the Stitching Bloggers Questions. This week’s is Are you starting something new to celebrate the New Year or participating in “Guilt Free January?” If so, what are you planning on starting?…
Cold! Cold cold cold!
Our heat went out last night, so we woke up in a very, very cold house. I don’t care what you Yankees say, we had a hard freeze here, so it really was cold! There was snow on the car…
Malware Woes
A few weeks ago, my PC was somehow infected with some nasty thing that tried to turn it into a spambot via drive-by download. I had the current version of Symantec AntiVirus running, set to the absolute highest paranoia levels…
Further Prof of Insanity: Blog365
I got through NaBloPoMo, as ridiculous as it was to commit to posting at least once a day for a month. So of course that small success has led me, in a moment of more-than-usual-lunacy, to sign up for Blog365…