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Vandermeer has an interview up with KJ Bishop, who’s book The Etched City, I recently finished re-reading. Great stuff. Why should readers pick up your book as opposed to, say, just about anybody else’s book? K. J. Bishop: Readers should pick up my book and someone else’s. Readers: buy a book instead of a pizza, […]

Back to work. I’m so behind. My first drafts are always such crap.

Over at bluesmama, check out the lyrics for her “Blues for J.” You may also be interested in checking out the President uncensored (via boingboing). Also, Amanda’s got some links up about voter fraud and directs us to Voter Video, in which those with video cameras are urged to catch Republicans challenging others’ rights to

I’ve been kinda off this week. Maybe because I spent too much downtime this weekend – I should have gone jogging or gone for a bike ride or something. After this week’s Monday class, I found myself too exhausted, hungry, and shaky to go to my now-usual Tuesday class. Instead, I made sure to eat

Meetings, meetings, everywhere, but I’m not a part of them. So, here’s where I get the games I play at work: http://popcap.com I recommend Zuma and Bookworm. Also, I am quite partial to Mah Jong, but that’s just me.

Here’s another guy who I personally can no longer listen to, but whom I respect for Fighting the Fight. Howard Stern set out from loserville nothing with a driving passion to be the highest rated radio talkshow host ever. It’s good to have goals. You might get somewhere. I listened to Stern for about 2

It must suck to live in a swing state right about now. There are, in fact, people in this country who exercise their right to choose NOT to vote. My mother is one of them. It drives me batty that she doesn’t, but she chooses not to encourage the system. Small form of personal protest,

Eminem has a new song out, Mosh. And you can view the video here. I’ll be the first to say it’s not a “great” song, but it’s angry and pissed-off, and it’s one of the best “go-vote” videos I’ve ever seen put before the Eminem target audience. It’s really pretty. And very, very angry. I

I’m behind on my new novel draft. Need to finish ch. 1 today. 100 pages by the 20th. More later…

Myst IV is out! Myst IV is out! Need I say more? I have very fond memories of lying on my mattress on the floor in my cockroach invested flat in Durban, eating brown rice w/peri-peri sauce and playing Myst III: Exile. Those were the days.