“…somebody…told me she was reading [Coraline] to her 8 year old son and got rather upset, and nervous, and freaked-out, and her son patted her on the hand and said…
Harcourt is beginning to reissue the “Young Wizards” books in a digest format (they’re still being issued in standard mass-market paperbacks as well, but with covers by Cliff Nielsen, who’s…
“A big galaxy is gobbling a tiny one, just as astronomers have long suspected, and for the first time there is photographic evidence of this kind of galactic cannibalism, snapped…
Seems a lot of people in Iraq think they do.
The St. Clair Inc. Safety Sign Builder! Bring up the page, insert your text and whatever characters or headers you feel appropriate, hit the “go” button, and the web page…
Heh heh. “New JK Rowlings are ten a penny (which must be galling for the Actual JK Rowling)… ” Louisa Young writes today in the Guardian. (Thanks to Blog of…
Peter shakes his head at me because I can watch (or listen to) TV while I’m writing. The other thing that makes him shake his head at me: baseball. I…
Thanks, Harry!
“Another middle-tier writer of fantasy, I believe, the sort known more for being prolific than good. Her works include the juvenile So You Want To Be a Wizard and its…
Well, not very clear. But extremely cool.
Slowly but surely I’m pulling things back together from my crash of two weeks ago. One note: a couple of old friends (one of my wedding party from 17+ years…
I love this. Teen abduction foiled by cell phone cam
(snort) She�s No Longer Jenny From the Block, J. Lo Concedes: The actress and diva retracts 16 words from her hit song…
I see that since the end of June or thereabouts, when I started using the new version of Blogger Pro, the “generate RSS” toggle has been “off”. Sorry, all; that…
This far. (a) Hear car horn tooting outside. Think, “Oh, it’s the mailman with a package.” Get up and run out the front door to the gate. Huh? No mailman.…
“Seriously.” See: http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=yabs&article=1636. Including: Galactus tries out a chat room: Galactus eats the Moon (and afterwards he’s sorry. Well, as Anna Russell would say, “How like a Galactic eating machine…
“How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world…” Trust a master, indeed the greatest Master so far of the English language, to…
I got the job done. Now I can go home…and start the next job. I can’t wait for August. How wonderful it’s going to be to have one or two…
And they’re all at least two feet long. I’m across the road from the hotel the producers have put me in. This hotel, where I’ve stopped for a nightcap, is…
And, strangely enough, that’s where I am right now, due to a series of circumstances too weird to relate (and indeed I can’t relate them now, or probably for some…
But, as they say, “she who peeps through the keyhole will see what will vex her.” Well, I’m not vexed as such. But I guess there’s nothing that Some People…
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Things the Writer Lies There In The Middle Of The Night Asking Herself: no. 1 in a series
Did Aaron Sorkin really have the last episode of year 4 in his mind when he wrote this dialogue, all that while ago? Or did he just look at it…
Here’s a new variant on the theme… (Thanks to kung fu grippe for the link.)
You occasionally run into strange cultural stuff when you’re up in the mountains in Switzerland. Cantonal -ethnic jokes, the foehn, Heaven knows what else. Some things are odder than others.…