I picked up Paul Park’s The Sugar Festival back when I went to Clarion, but never read it (he was one of our instructors that year – I read The Gospel of Corax instead, which I enjoyed). Mainly, I didn’t read it because the first few pages… few, man, at least 25 or so, were […]
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A pop delivery service. Seriously, people.
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This is a page turning, readable little book… But I won’t be buying the sequel. Why? Because these characters are all IDIOTS. And they talk all about how they are IDIOTS. Unlike the brilliant The Sugar Festival, which also had unlikable characters, the world just wasn’t amazing enough to keep me going through all the
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Had our quarterly fitness test at work today. I am full of awesome! My blood pressure and heart rate improved, and my measurements overall stayed about the same. I did 50 timed pushups, up from 46, and 51 timed situps, up from 48. So, whoo! My dougheyness seems to be caused by a mere 4
Probably one of the most frustrating things about being me (besides the whole insulin thing) is the fact that I have to go to the gym 4-5 times a week just to, like, maintain my current weight. I get lazy, I slack off and just do two days a week, I play a few video
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Used in conversation with the web designer working on the GW site, while brainstorming some themes: “Retro-cyberpunky” It’s funny, when you don’t have a word that describes exactly what you want, you sort of just cobble them together from existing words. Because I think what I meant was, you know, steampunk without the steam, but
I got my first book-specific “Where did your ideas come from?” question at lunch with the rest of the marketing department yesterday. Sure, I’ve gotten this question before, but it was always really general. That one’s easy. You just say, “From living.” Which doesn’t make great interview copy, but it’s true. But this question was
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I hate it when I wake up pissed off for no reason. I think it’s just a weird feeling because I’ve been in such a state of zen for the last two months. Being pissed off first thing in the morning at old hurts and bygones is such a waste of time. Good thing there’s
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