I've been excessively perturbed about NSA's shenanigans lately. Now, on a separate but related note, today my internet service was rudely and abruptly cut off.

Reason? Someone from this IP address downloaded several files from a torrent with "Girls" in the title, and the ISP service suspected child porn. (Obviously the traffic stream + title ( Read more... )

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That's the pronouncement from someone I have to share space with, on the capture of the 19-yr-old younger-brother idiot who was suspect #2 in the Boston marathon bombings ( Read more... )

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If you think you're reprogramming your prosperity mentality and the abundance you attract,
and you decide to equivocate over the purchase of $3 worth of potatoes
(when you are spending over $200 at the store already)on the grounds that we already have some that are wrinkling and need to be used ( Read more... )

So, I have a workshop online about something writerly-creative-related.  My premise is simple. Parsed out to logic-speak it basically says, "Y detracts from the validity of X. If you want X to be True, then you can't have Y present. X+Y=False ( Read more... )

Am probably not going to make a delivery deadline I committed to this month. I am having terrible problems getting on with book revisions. Either writing crap, or can't write at all. Why ( Read more... )

I went through an extended period (a decade) of not writing, and during this time (unsurprisingly) drifted apart from my agent. Which is a bad thing if one wants to be a professional writer, especially since I have a Big Bad Agent who represents Really Big Fish in the pond. Also promising small fry, which I was perceived to be...until I quit ( Read more... )

Yes, c'est moi, with an(other) editorial rant ( Read more... )