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Varieties of Disturbance
Liese woke me up in the middle of the night whispering, in her sleep,
"The ashes and the fire. The fire and the charcoal."
Over and over again.*
Then, this morning, a black cow showed up on our front porch.
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Lao Tzu's Trucks
From Stephen Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching:
When a country is in harmony with the Tao,
the factories make trucks and tractors.
When a country goes counter to the Tao,
warheads are stockpiled outside the cities.
The same passage, this time from Ursula K. Le Guin:
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Last Night's Dreamin'
I was the guitarist for Aimee Mann's national tour. As we were starting the first show, I realized that I hadn't practiced any of the songs and I'd misplaced the sheet music. I decided I'd just wing it, but the audience started booing in the first few seconds of the show, and I ran offstage in panic ( Read more... ) -
[sale] "The Earth of Yunhe" to SHINE
Normally this kind of news would call for a bottle of mead and festive animated GIFs, but I'm still a little sick and probably shouldn't look at too many flashing lights. In any case, I've sold my story "The Earth of Yunhe" to Jetse de Vries for his Shine anthology from Solaris Books. The book looks like this:
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November Sundries
Yesterday:
Saw a pretty good performance of Avenue Q, which was all the better for being a break from routine and getting Liese and I out of the house. (Even if the ticket office's definition of "front balcony" didn't quite square with my definition. We were in the last five rows?) I managed to catch it in London a couple years ago, but Liese had ( Read more... ) -
Election '09
Voting. Today. Yes. I'd point my fellow Virginians to the Washington Post's endorsement of Deeds, which I think sums things up pretty well. Dude has run a totally inept campaign and just straight up isn't going to win, but he'd be a decent governor, and sure as hell better than the other guy.
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[Sunflower 22] The Long Week
New Words:
600
Total Words:
17,500
Forward Motion:
30mins on stationary bike
Music:
Danger Mouse, Dark Night of the Soul
Reading:
Canticle by Ken Scholes
Otherwise:
Long week with little writing, obviously. Ah well. There was a Live Action Zombie Game, and that's nothing to scoff at.
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[Writing] In the Kitchen
I'd let a few projects and obligations languish on the backburner, and I wanted to spend Monday cleaning the stove. Or something. Got a lot of stuff done, anyway.
New Words:
700 (non-fiction)
1000 (short story)
Forward Motion:
~3.8 miles
Music:
The groans of the zombie horde
Reading:
Canticle by Ken Scholes
Otherwise:
Further preparation for the Halloween ( Read more... )
