Oh hey--just FYI, I've had a couple guest posts over on Robin McKinley's blog recently. If you're curious, they're here and here. She's trying to get a book done, and blogging 7 days a week is becoming difficult--so some of her mods and a few others are pitching in to keep her sane. So there may be a few more from me at various points ( Read more... )

At least briefly, because it's time for the now-becoming-annual Movie List ( Read more... )

When I first started working at the game store in high school, there were a couple of guys about my age who were regular customers and occasional employees. One was named Brad, and one was named G.J. Brad had a fairly sunny disposition, was smart, had a good sense of humor, and I enjoyed his company. G.J. was kind of a dick; he took a long time ( Read more... )

I figured I should post something about E. Gary Gygax's passing. But I'm not a D&D player--I never really was, to be honest, I owned the basic red box set as a kid but plunged straight into Cthulhu in high school and soon after, Runequest and the Morrow Project all rolled into one. I met him once--which is to say we literally bumped into one ( Read more... )

erink tagged me for a meme... 7 Weird Things About Me. Let's see here ( Read more... )

So I've been having an interesting conversation on robinmckinley's LJ about books that shape us in our early reading years--not just books you enjoyed when you were a pre-teen, but books that genuinely changed or helped form how you write (if you're a writer) or how you think or view the world at large. Her own talking about the books that shaped her writing-- ( Read more... )

Got this off a friend's MySpace post:

Here's how it works... go to Google, type in your name and the word needs. . and whatever is the 1st result to come back is what you post.

By that reckoning, Cathy needs... a panda!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/somesay/147281670/

She got me thinking about movies... I don't often see movies in the theatre these days, and when I watch TV it's 99.9% of the time documentary type stuff anymore. Looking at her impressive list, I got to wondering just how many movies I've seen in the last year...

On my own:The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera (again and again and again ( Read more... )

As I'm too stingy to pay for photo hosting on LJ, please feel free to check out The Best Nativity Ever HERE.
Yes, those are my toys. Galactic heroes are courtesy my coworker Eric; photoshopping is courtesy coworker Jay. No, we didn't do this on company time. :)

1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Jabba the ( Read more... )

Yet another by popular demand (and by popular, I mean Carl and Robin.) It was my first week as a seasonal gardener, and I was assigned to work with the guy in charge of the zoo perimeter plantings, who we'll call D. D was possibly one of the laziest, most annoying people I've ever worked with; a large part of his job consisted of trying to find ( Read more... )