This is a follow-up to July's Authors Behaving Badly: Jacqueline HowettIn May the author posted an "apology". I use italics, because the long winded post with random highlighting and colored font is primarily finger pointing and poor excuses than a heartfelt apology. She blames everything but herself: the reviewer, her circumstances, her newness to ( Read more... )

I knew it was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the same woman who directed Twilight. I knew Rotten Tomatoes gave it 11% at the time. But I have a plethora of movie passes from work, so headlesspuppet and I decided to see it last month. At worst we'd lose a couple of hours ( Read more... )

First of all ekaterini you should have dropped everything and come. School? Work? PSHAW! There was room for two more, and I promise I'd not harass your guest... too much.

headlesspuppet, ladykylene, sc0o8i3 and I rented a house up near the islands the weekend of the 14th. The most predictable thing about weather in this region is its unpredictability. It can be raining and hailing in ( Read more... )

First of all, Happy Belated Easter. Whether you celebrate it or not, beware this Easter Bunny; he'll suck your soul if you look him in the eyes. There's more awkward family Easter photos here.

This weekend was convention weekend for myself and headlesspuppet, who’d never attended Norwescon nor Sakuracon. We decided to visit both. The former I’d only attended ( Read more... )

During discussions about self publishing, names are often listed as examples of how anyone can “make it” without education and/or editors. They’re held up as shining examples of self publishing success. But listing writers from a hundred years ago (or more) doesn’t seem relevant to today’s industry as publishing was a whole other game then. More ( Read more... )

Dorchester Publishing was founded in 1971 and was well regarded, but in the past few years the pub began spiraling towards disaster. Some remained as optimistic as possible, but announcement after announcement indicated Bad Things were happening. Making Light's post, "Whither Dorchester?" summarizes this slowly moving train wreck well, but to break ( Read more... )

I need to go through our photos, but for now I want to share a couple videos others posted on YouTube.

First one is of the XBox 360 Kinect dance stage; though it was quiet the first day and in the mornings, it was surprisingly popular, especially during lunchtime. One of my favorite performances happened Sunday afternoon right before closing.

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I've been busy and haven't checked LJ and most of my online haunts since the 4th ( Read more... )

First of all, LJ is entering the causal game marketplace?

Game on, ElJayers! You can diagnose your friends in Sim Hospital or steal crops from your neighbors in Farm Frenzy. Check out all our new games in the Game Center!Geez. I don't mind wasting some time on Facebook, but that's all I use Facebook for, time wasters. The actual social networking ( Read more... )

I caught a cold, and since I have a big week coming up in March I holed up in my bedroom with the tv, my laptop (on my trusty IKEA stand), gallons of juice and soup, and a plethora of medication for three days. Tuesday -- sniffley and tiring easily but better -- I braved the outdoors and went to work. The walk from my car to my desk in the ( Read more... )