Habeas corpus- Law. a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, esp. for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.That thing there? The one in italics? America doesn't have that anymore. We gave it up when congress passed the terror bill this week. It allows the ( Read more... )

My friends page is very screwed up. I don't know what's wrong with it, but since the new LJ layout started I haven't seen a single update on it. Sorry for not commenting on you all, but I haven't been able to see your posts ( Read more... )

I suppose I really should put up the miniatures I paint on here occasionally, just to show you all that I'm not a complete lump when I'm not writing. Lately my project has been "Model and paint banners for all the squads in the army" and it turned out really well. People occasionally ask me how it is that I manage to produce some of the stuff I do ( Read more... )

Today isn't going to be a continuation of yesterday's story, because I'm not feeling that particular muse at the moment. I'll probably just ramble for a little bit and then nod off, like an old man ( Read more... )

I'm trying to write on a schedule these days. Right now that just means a page a day, no throwing it away no matter how much I hate it, and it can be on anything I want. I will continue throwing it up on this journal as I finish it, though I may not always be working on the same story. Today's page is from a story I am writing about a man who goes ( Read more... )

We (the Royal We) will do this update in the form of a lymeric. It won't be very good but it will rhyme. Suck it ( Read more... )

A lot of people think Stephen King is a really good writer. Let's not mince words. Those people are idiots. Oh, he's no Dan Brown, don't get me wrong. He can string a plot together without resorting to the most basic of stereotypes. But in the encyclopedia, next to the entry for "Hack" there is a picture of Linus Torvaldis, inventor of Linux. Then ( Read more... )

So, I never understood the old comic book cliche of the dad who forces his family to go camping. Why bother? Why drag a bunch of people out to a miserable hell hole where it's always raining and you all come back stressed? I have been on plenty of camping trips before, but if one were ever that bad, I would run back home without a second glance. So ( Read more... )

I have a guilty pleasure that I rarely share with anybody. I like helicopters. There, I said it. I don't mean in a passing "Oh, that's cool" kind of way. I mean I am obsessed, utterly, with helicopters. If there is one dream I have beyond being a writer, it is being a helicopter pilot ( Read more... )

I really don't like this work schedule stuff. I got off at 10 tonight and I go back in at 6am tomorrow. Then another 6am shift and then I'm on midnights starting monday. I hate that crap, if they're going to mess up my sleeping cycle they can pay for my anti-depressants. I don't get paid until next thursday, either ( Read more... )