The (Really) Downside of Author Blogs

I bought a book on Amazon a few weeks ago and just now am getting around to reading it. As I am wont to do I was googling certain aspects of the story and came across the author’s now-defunct blog. About a half hour into reading it I came across the author’s details about the [...]

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Things Of Which I Am Tired

The Title is self explanatory. o This headache It’s been six days now, and aside from a few good hours (let’s say two) each morning, I’m spending each day with my brain trying to escape through my eyeballs. o Free e-books about quirky communities of people who eat quaint food (i.e. pie) and Just Need [...]

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The Libertarians & The Librarians

Somehow I got added onto a libertarian mailing list and I haven’t had the gumption to remove myself from it. I’m still a libertarian, but more and more I begrudge calling myself that as folks are steadily migrating from Tea Party Republicanism to our rocky and desolate shore and bringing with them all their vaguely [...]

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I Believe Miss Harcroft Is The Earl’s Rightful Daughter

What is it with the British and their long, convoluted tales of inheritance? I just finished an 800-page Jeffery Archer novel that purported to be a rags-to-riches story about a merchant building an empire–an American-style plot–but ended up hinging on baseborn babies and secret codicils and all the other trappings of British melodramatic fiction. I [...]

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I Can’t Believe I Just Did That

I just wrote a 600-word post about the recent death of a former friend and then decided not to publish it because it might upset my sister in law. I didn’t used to blog that way and I can’t decide if this whole “considering your audience” thing is good or bad. I usually write this [...]

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Proof Of Weird

I wanted to put these pix in the last post about Quinn and Gobie (Joe B) watching Babylon 5, but it was taking forever for them to import from the iPhone. (I’ve got 2000 pictures on there and can’t delete them until after vacation, when I will need the doggie pix to hold me over.) [...]

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Welsh Stew

I came thisclose to using one of WordPress’ “writing prompts” to feed today’s blog post. But I realised any 500-word thing I’d write about “guest-starring on my favourite TV show” would devolve into a diatribe about violence against women as entertainment, so I figured I’d just stick with the usual trick of writing about whatever [...]

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Sort Of Like A Waring Blender

I tend to avoid music articles and discussions because, all too often they end up like this: When they start singing about babies and church I puke. It’s like the CD should come with the minivan. Now, I’m not much of a fan of babies nor am I a blind devotee to “church” as a [...]

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Twist Ending

::cue Hallelujah Chorus in full voice:: My First True Mobius Snood* is complete! I think I’m addicted to Mobius knitting, even though it is not unlike getting in a car driven by a casual acquaintance and just riding without a map. You cast on, start knitting and just have to trust that you’re going to [...]

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The Wages Of Fear

Lately I’ve been pondering Fear again. I first began to hate Fear as a motivator when I realised how many people were using it to drive their agendas. Politicians use fear–of terrorists, of economic struggle, of the changing way of life–to win elections. Christian writers use fear to sell books. Remember Mike Hyatt’s sky-is-falling Y2K [...]

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