Continuing my Twin Peaks-inspired Lynch kick, I watched Lost Highway last night. This is a Lynch I’m a much more comfortable with. The obscure cyclical story. Messages to yourself from the future. Dopplegangers. Body jumping. Choppy, nonsensical narratives. Creepy fellows. And, also, whores who get slaughtered. Ho-hum (I’m thinking that one of the reasons I […]
What you can get for 135K in Portland, OR (price reduced!). What you can get for 135K in Dayton, OH. Or, if you want something more contemporary. Or something with a bit of land. Must… write… more… books. And etc.
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Someone has apparently created a pony mod based on Jay Lake’s novel, Mainspring. I’ve seen a lot of mods inspired by movies and television characters, but I think this is the first I’ve seen inspired by a book.
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This was the last day of this quarter’s brutal upper body routine with the personal trainers at work. I received relief a couple of weeks ago on the lower body workout (which was primarily walking lunges, squats, and one-legged lunges, all weighted), which made going to the gym bearable (we’re now doing drop sets). Today
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Reel Music, a streaming radio broadcast of movie soundtracks. I do about 95% of my writing while listening to movie soundtracks. This radio station is full of awesome.
Try half an hour of jogging followed by ten minutes of swimming. You wouldn’t think this would be that bad – I mean, there’s a 5 min warmup and cooldown attached to that half hour, so it’s really only twenty minutes of jogging, and the swimming is only ten minutes – but, but… I only
Toby and Scalzi were reading at the Books & co. at The Greene! (don’t worry, somebody else got much better pictures). So it was straight from work to the gym to the reading (these guys make a great couple). Man, I miss the SF/F crowd. When’s Wiscon, again?
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I’d been knocking my head against a plot point here at the end of the book the last couple of days. Today, in preparation for my big weekend push, I printed out and re-read the synopsis I had to write for Black Desert in order to sell the series. “Ohhhh,” I said aloud, “so *that’s*
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