This is not me, this is Pat Cadigan.

*daha*

If you ever want to see writers treated like rock stars, go to an American Library Association convention and watch for a YA genre writer to show up. The librarians don’t scream and faint, but it’s a near thing. I saw the reception for Robert Cormier, author of The Chocolate War. I don’t think anyone ( Read more... )

Man, used to be shopping at the warehouse clubs meant not having enough room in my car for all the really cheap stuff I bought, and I stopped shopping when I ran out of room, not out of money. Nowadays, not so much ( Read more... )

I have just returned from the Post Office with a sheet of Janice Joplin stamps, very nicely done and looking like her album covers and posters. The sheet itself is sized and shaded to look like a 45 sleeve. (45 rpm, 7" single-play (per-side) vinyl phonograph record).

I am much more pleased with this than I have any right being.

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I was at a coffee shop with my girlfriend, and I got their large size coffee. I added milk and sweetener. There were two cups holding stirrers. Some black plastic stirrers in one cup, and some longer flat yellowish ones in the other. I took a yellow one because my paper coffee cup was tall ( Read more... )

I set out two eggs to warm up to room temperature for my pumpkin-bread mix, but when I looked on the counter later there was only one there.

I asked the dog what he knows about this, and he told me that he loves me very much.

*daha*

Dog just tore the stuffing out of a cushion from couch #3. Couch #2 was completely destroyed. Couch #1 just needs a new cushion, but the pattern doesn't exist anymore. An upholsterer offered to create a new cushion that didn't actually match, for $100.

I'm already working with a dog trainer for other issues.

*daha*

My son bought a used iphone 4 from a well-meaning neighbor. She is an ATT customer, and she got the phone unlocked (by Apple, I think) and sold it to him.

Now the question is, are there any networks besides ATT that he can run the phone on?

*daha*

My next doorstop needs to be made of something the dog doesn't like to chew on. He keeps pulling it out, and then the door swings closed, and then he gets stuck on one side or the other and gets anxious and needy.

*daha*

So I composed an email using a gmail account. One of the words I typed was "attached". When I hit SEND, gmail popped up a box pointing out that I had used the word "attached", that there was no file attached to the email, and asking if I was sure I wanted to do that.

*daha*

"I mean, Michael... I think... I think it's gonna be all over, man."

"What?"

"Everything."

"Sodom and Gomorrah, huh?"

"Maybe not that... dramatic, but something like that. We're gonna be... I mean people like you and me... we're gonna be fifty-year old libertines in a world full of twenty-year old Calvinists."

--Armistead Maupin, Tales of the ( Read more... )