So the weird thing... this 4.7 earthquake that hit here in Reno last night? That, as all of the news agencies are reporting (and by reporting, I mean mostly just copying from the A.P., since it's basically verbatim the same story over and over again) knocked mayonnaise, ketchup and bottles off store shelves, that caused a rock slide that damaged a ( Read more... )

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Why do publishers insist upon publishing books that I want to read whilst I am in the middle of a NaNoing?

I'm talking to you Little, Brown & Company (Michael Connelly's The Overlook and Tom Doherty Associates (F. Paul Wilson's Bloodline: A Repairman Jack NovelApparently, I shall read and write simultaneously. More or less ( Read more... )

Don't you just hate it when you get a good head of steam going on your NaNo writing (or writing in general), only to realize that what you've written could be made SO much better if you tossed out the ideas that led you to the point that you are currently at and just started over from the beginning ( Read more... )

So I'm driving down to the movies today to catch the 3D release of The Nightmare Before Christmas, and I glance over at the minivan running along side of me to find a pair of excellent twenty-something breasts, shirtless, braless, pressed against the passenger window.

Life can be good sometimes.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Heinlein

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You all must go see The Darjeeling Limited.

You must.

I demand it.

Oh my God! The Red Sox won the World Series!

Oh my God! I didn't even know that the World Series was being played!

I am so not aware of what's going on in the sports world...

Okay, I'm a sick fuck, but I'm going to give the ol' NaNoWriMo thing again this year. Maybe this time it will stick!

Anyone want to come and join me, come scope me out over there!