A sentence I never thought I’d write
I had a great time at Bumbershoot yesterday, but I’m really sore because I got kicked in the back of the head by a crowd surfer during the Death Cab for Cutie concert.Continue Reading
I had a great time at Bumbershoot yesterday, but I’m really sore because I got kicked in the back of the head by a crowd surfer during the Death Cab for Cutie concert.Continue Reading
Just finished this Stephen King story from a couple of years ago. It was moderately entertaining, and I liked the cell phone = zombies premise, but it felt awfully thin for an entire novel. I think he could comfortably have eliminated the less interesting secondary characters, and cut out hugeContinue Reading
Goal: Six stories or story-length novel snippets. Accomplishment: One 8,000 word story based on a premise that I’ve been kicking around for years. I thought it was going to be a novel, and it just wasn’t. Now I’m not sure it’s even a short story. Paul tells me it’s goodContinue Reading
I am never going to be a world famous blogger. I know this. I’ve accepted it. Because when I get back from WorldCon at two in the morning and throw my luggage on the living room floor and think, "blast! I have to be at work in a mere sevenContinue Reading
So far I’m still three for three on the write-a-thon — three weeks, three stories. And, it’s been a while since we had a real cartoon controversy. This one is a little different, as it does not (as yet) involve any violence. To summarize: The New Yorker’s next cover isContinue Reading
I can’t honestly say I didn’t see this coming, but I still feel like this Slate essay, which claims WALL-E goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse misses the point in a dozen places. In case you don’t know the basic premise, 700 years ago theContinue Reading
Check out this delightful and heartwarming story about getting bigots to shut up by singing show tunes. Usually I have a problem with the whole loud bigots thing — ignore them and they never shut up — yell back and it validates them, plus escalates the situation — but showContinue Reading
End of first week: June 28 So far so good, as the first week’s story was completed, critiqued, and into rewrites by the time I broke for a barbecue and zombies. The second week’s story is going to be a bit of a challenge, as there is a big ole’Continue Reading
…Because I am doin’ the write-a-thon!* Still, somehow, I ended up reading this post: I don’t just hate ladies, but men who I think act like ladies. The post is pretty good, but I zeroed in on the first comment by Mnemosyne: This is what I think is going toContinue Reading
I am doing the write-a-thon for Clarion West this year. If you would like to sponsor me, the page is here: http://www.clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/JulieMcGalliard I am once again requesting sponsorships in extremely lucky multiples of thirteen. Just because I happen to have Excel open, these are: 13 26 39 52 65 78Continue Reading
I know the deep rattling coughs are alarming. And I know that I am giving you a dead-eyed zombie stare, but it is only because the coughing makes it hard to sleep and I’m a bit tired. That’s all. I have not been bitten. It is just a cold. ItContinue Reading
So, this “Reclusive Leftist” chick has been really getting up my nose and I wanted to vent. She’s a Hillary Clinton supporter — no big shock, many people were. Approximately half the people who voted in the Democratic primaries in fact. Many of these people were feminists. Also no bigContinue Reading
Is coming home to find a bunch of hatchling spiders dangling in the branches of the forked sundew in the carnivorous plants terrarium. I didn’t get a picture, since my digital camera seems to be dead, but the hatchlings looked more or less like this: And the sundew looked likeContinue Reading