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I’m supposed to be done with the first three chapters of God’s War today. I’m just about done with the first. As usual, I’m behind. Excerpts later.

VanderMeer shares his top ten worst author reading experiences. #5 – World Horror Convention II, 1993 My reading at the second World Horror Convention, in Nashville, Tennessee, was probably the lowest point for me of any reading. No one was there except my wife, Ann. I was going to just leave, but Ann insisted I

Half of this I’ve already heard before (yawn), and certainly felt I’d experienced: An increase in a woman’s body mass results in a decrease in her family income and a decline in her occupational prestige Well, sure. But not only that. Under 30? You’re doubly screwed: In addition, the researchers found that the association between

A couple of my Clarion buddies have got some (newish) blogs up: Left of the Mississippi (Inez) Alec Austin

So, I really wanted a T-shirt that said “Fucktards” on it. And I got a little carried away… come join the fun. Any requests?

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next.” – Gilda Radner

Back in Chicago after visiting B in NY for the weekend… we hashed out a lot of personal stuff and watched some great movies and ate good food. A lot of life-stress about what I’ll be doing next year also came up, and I’m a lot more stressed about it than I’d like to be,

Ginmar’s got a thread up where women are talking about their experiences with abortion…. answerings the question: if half the women in the country have had an abortion, where are they? Here are some. I wish there were safe forums where women wouldn’t feel they had to talk anonymously about it. But here’s a start.

I’m sitting here at work researching opium (the smell of it, particularly) and collecting slang terms for marijuana. No, I’ve never done illegal drugs in my life. But I write about a lot of people who do them. Fun, fun, fun.