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My latest post is up at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In it, I tackle the Sedona Sweat Lodge tragedy. http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/civil-religion/Read more... )

In which I call the Mojave Desert Cross case a monument to changing times, and imply that Justice Scalia is an insensitive, bigoted doody-head:

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/civil-religion/

Am once again reading the most excellent book, "How to Become a Famous Writer Before you're Dead," by Ariel Gore ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, jtigermoon! May there be much merriment, few annoyances, and many free drinks.

Happy birthday, gothicsquish! Hope it was zombie-riffic.

Yesterday, was checking the "Domestic gigs" section of Craigslist, as per usual. (One never knows: could actually be something in there besides "Clean my filthy apartment so I can get my deposit back and I'll pay you $8 an hour.") And there was an ad for some people who, in addition to underpaying, stated that they would not consider anyone who had ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, hernes_moon!

Have just completed my offering for installment one of the Feri Foodswap!

jtigermoon and I will be exchanging dishes (filled with food, of course) each Sunday at our Feri meetings. We both live alone, and had gotten into bad dinner habits at the end of our busy days. My own tendencies were to just grill a piece of meat on the George Forman, maybe eat a ( Read more... )

The St. Louis writer's meet-up group is publishing an anthology. I have just signed up to submit a piece for it. This gives me a deadline, a goal, and a severe case of performance anxiety. The last anthology gained reviews in local media, as well as real writer perks like readings and signings ( Read more... )