we did it. the fam watched the entire set of extended editions in "one sitting." we took breaks, sure, and it lasted (extended?) into today, but it's pretty much all that happened sunday. started "the fellowship of the ring" at 11:24 am, finished it at 3:04 pm. "the two towers" went from 3:16 to 7:15, and "the return of the king" lasted from 8:03 ( Read more... )

contributions to the semi-regular e-zine run by my dear friend rickey k. sound like easy assignments, but wind up being time-consuming and lots of good trouble. i'm not usually happy with the results, but the one for issue 20 is one of which i am especially proud. in part, it's because the piece was really short. i kind of rushed through it, but ( Read more... )

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yesterday was windy as hell. it was romanitc. and romantic.

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last night, i read arthur ransome's "the fool of the world and the flying ship" (with pictures by uri shulevitz), followed by "the stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales" by jon scieszka and illustrated by lane smith. plenty of children's books are being absorbed by my brain lately, i know. i can't help it.

she's pretty out there, but at least she knows it. man, talk about "out of the frying pan and into the frier." years of working with loopy people (including myself) prepared me well for this ( Read more... )