You Are Batman Billionaire playboy by day. Saving the world by night.And you’re not even a true superhero. Just someone with a lot of expensive toys! What Superhero Are You?
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Ian and I went out on a beer and pie run tonight. On the way back, I mentioned I’d sent out some query letters today. “Wow,” Ian said, “if you got a big fat check for that book, you might almost be cool again.”
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Had to turn down interviews for a couple of short-term temp assignments because… well, after I was told I wasn’t going to be interviewed for one of them, I went ahead and booked Wiscon for some extra days, and now I’m committed to doing that instead of a possible 2-week assignment for 20 an hour.
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Are you a boy or a girl? Flash presentation. You know, I always wondered, do/did they ever test people competing as *male* atheletes to make sure they’re *really* men, or has this always been some kind of wacked-out, let’s make sure the girls are protected macho thing?
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The train dropped Nyx off at a refueling station within view of Mushira where the local farmers collected fuel for their farming equipment and personal vehicles. Nyx alighted and pulled up the hood of her burnous. She started to put on her goggles and then looked out over Mushira and stopped. She wouldn’t need those
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One of the strongest arguments for continuing to teach history is the incredible sense of freedom it gives an individual who’s grown up thinking that the cultural norms, the “reality” that they’ve grown up in is just “the way things are” or “the way things have always been.” Spent some time studying history, and every
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Great conversation over at Pandagon about advertising and breast augmentation.
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I just finished re-reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground. I read it and loved it when it first came out, lured by a stunning review of the book by Michael Moorcock. This time around, as I re-read Veniss I started to think about what draws me back to particular books. I don’t re-read a lot of