One of the things that makes Mad Men so consistently watchable is that it defies soap opera conventions. We’ve come to expect certain things from TV shows. We expect these people to live crazy, over-the-top lives full of great tragedies and great good fortune (but mostly, great tragedies). We expect miscarriages, drowned children, car wrecks, […]
I found Tim Akers’s last book, Heart of Veridon, by accident at the local bookstore. I enjoyed it so much that I eagerly awaited his next book, The Horns of Ruin… until I read the back cover copy. See, it had all this stuff that annoys the crap out of me. I’m not a fan
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Our haunted house gets smooshed.
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Something for all you young writers to look forward to! One of the best parts of the digital age is that you will no longer be hauling piles like this across a couple of oceans and dozens of living arrangements. The historian in me loves that I still have a bunch of rejections from defunct
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I started this blog back in 2004 as a place to mouth off about my life. It was a natural extension of the long and winding emails I was sending out to groups of friends. Back then, only the “cool kids” were on the Internet anyway, so I didn’t feel so strange about posting things
I don’t generally like to mix my personal blog with my day job life, as it’s a good rule of thumb to keep the two separate. However, being somebody with a chronic illness that most folks get when they’re kids, I have a soft spot for kids with chronic illnesses. I also have a blog
Here it is, folks, in all its bad ass glory: Get you one!!
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So I’ve gotten through all the Pawn Stars available on Netflix, and now I have a stack of gender and Islam books to get through, and you know, hey, sometimes I need a break. It’s been a long week here already and its only Wednesday. I’ve got a new dog that won’t crap outside, bad
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There has been a lot of ink spilled (real and virtually) about Paulo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl. A few months back, I decided to see what all the fuss was about and ordered a copy. This was a dense book, the type you don’t see mass marketed very often, in large part because it throws
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