Movie Goodness

A few movies have magically appeared on my computer recently. There’s The Grudge (which I said was the scariest damn movie I’d ever seen the first time I saw it, but its effect has been diluted since I saw the original Ju-On), and its (surprisingly halfway decent) sequel The Grudge 2. But today I’ve gotten [...]

Writing Update

I know this is going to frustrate some of you. Even though I’m not finished with the current crap draft of The Solitude of the Tentacled Space Monster, I feel that I’m ready to get moving on the first major draft.  I know where the plot’s headed, and I have my "outline draft" that I [...]

What is “Santanic”, anyway?

From the Columbia Chronicle:  "Secret Service investigates Santanic [sic] Vampire".  I’m not entirely sure what to make of the headline; all I can figure is that certain Latin rock musicians are recruiting legions of the undead to violently influence the political process.  With "Likens", no less. But law professor Neil Richards makes the most important [...]

Easter Eggs

So, I love the show Heroes, as any red-blooded American geek should.  And I recently listened to the episode of Mur Lafferty’s podcast I Should Be Writing, where she interviewed Paul Malmont, author of the Chinatown Death Cloud Peril (and Paul Malmont is on my list of "good guys" because, although I haven’t read his [...]

A Writer-ly Meme

Replicated from just about every writer whose journal, both on LiveJournal and elsewhere, that I read: Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven’t gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven’t gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then [...]

38 Random Things About Me

In lieu of content, here’s a meme that I swiped ruthlessly from Tim Pratt’s blog.  He did 52 things, but I’m too tired to come up with that many. When I was a kid I was scared of the dark.  I still am, and sometimes when Jennifer spends the night elsewhere, I turn on all [...]

More Joy

Via the Panda’s Thumb, I found this video of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, "edited for rednecks".  It’s lifted straight from last night’s episode of Family Guy, which I’m afraid I missed. Occasionally people ask me how I can be a Christian and still believe in things like evolution, the big bang, and so on.  Putting aside [...]

Hangin’

For some reason, people often seem surprised when I tell them that I’m essentially a loner.  I mean it.  I guess I’m really good at interacting with people when I’m in social situations, but I don’t seek out such situations very often.  I love my friends dearly and I enjoy the time I have with [...]

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Let’s Break Your Brain

Via David Brin’s blog (have you not read anything by David Brin? No? What the hell’s wrong with you?) I found this article regarding another idea about the ultimate fate of our universe; rather than the ultimate heat death as has been occasionally predicted, or the Big Crunch as has alternately predicted, this new model [...]