Trick or Treat
Well, it’s time for me to head out with my kids in the cold. If Maud doesn’t mind, I might hop back on later tonight with final thoughts regarding the holiday.
For the sake of posterity, I will tell you this: my son will be Batman Beyond, and my daughter will be a cow. Please, no [...]
NYT
Just had a lunch meeting with a rep from the New York Times, and he pointed us toward a fabulous site that I’d never heard of before called newseum.org, the interactive museum of news, that puts newspapers side by side from all over the world. Wow, what a fabulous resource to have, especially given news [...]
Ghouls
Oh, hey, don’t forget to keep your pet safe tonight. I don’t know about you, but vampires knocking on our door doesn’t exactly put the dog’s mind at ease. Also, the tiniest crack of an open door is an invitation for the cat to rush out and dash under the car (apparently cats consider cars [...]
What Else?
Oh, it’s been a busy day and I haven’t been posting as much as I’d like to.
Just a note here to let you know that though my blog isn’t currently blogging, it will be soon. I’ve got to put all the pieces together and then start it up. There’ll also be a You Are a [...]
Batemania.com
I don’t know about you, but nothing scares me better (on Halloween or not) than a really good political cartoon, especially one with panels. Batemania.com is Scott Bateman’s site, and I love him because he just sort of says what’s on his mind, and doesn’t (almost never) draw the same damn cartoon every other lame [...]
Hobbies
My hobbies? Makin’ stuff and posting it on CafePress and then bringing it down again. I love CafePress, but apparently I’m easily bored by it.
iTunes
You know, with iTunes offering allowance and gift cards these days, you could go ahead and buy music for the people you love without even knowing what they love. You know those people. People who lead you down roads you otherwise would never find? Yeah. Those people.
Coffee
Okay. So I’m up. I’ve scratched my head (and a few other body parts) and I’ve been pounced on by my kids, but I haven’t had any coffee yet. This seems like an error, like a giant mistake on my part.
I’ll be back once I’m medicated.
Good Morning
Since I live on the west coast, I’m going to post a hello right now and say “hello,” and then probably be missing for awhile. Missing until I get up in the morning and have coffee and scratch my head and say hello to the family and hug the dog and walk my kids.
So, I’ll [...]
Introducing Terry Bain
Terry Bain lives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife, two children, and one dog. After becoming acquainted online a little less than a year ago, we recently met in person, in a group of writers acquainted through Zoetrope’s online studios. Terry put everyone at ease from the get-go. He was concerned about Pia [...]
Who let Lott out of his cage?
Trent Lott’s latest thoughts on Iraq: “If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens. You’re dealing with insane suicide bombers who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking them out.†(Thanks to Andy for the link.)
Next up: Church and the City, a new series?
Chick lit gets holy. Upcoming titles include:
* … Kristin Billerbeck’s What a Girl Wants, about a 31-year-old patent attorney looking for a nice Christian guy who doesn’t live with his mother.
* … Sisterchicks Do the Hula by Robin Jones Gunn. According to fiction marketing director Sandy Muller, the first “chick lit goes to church” novel [...]
Ahem
Sweet Fancy Moses is back.
Waugh
The centenary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth passed on Tuesday (the 28th). In anticipation, critics and reviewers in the last year or two have released a flood of articles on Waugh and his place in the literary canon. Film adaptations have been in the works, including a controversial adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, and Stephen Fry’s [...]
Yes, that’s right, Wadsworth
The New Yorker is once again accepting unsolicited submissions. TMFTML offers some tips on breaking into the magazine with your nonfiction.
Mr. Nine Years, who as Mr. Maud has observed updates his blog approximately that often, has a clerkship interview with a federal judge in Texas on Friday. I would like to wish [...]