OK

I’ve been fighting this all day, but it won.
I wasn’t going to bring up the Rick Kleffel Agony Column Podcast (show number 212) that I was listening to today because I don’t want to make this blog a poisonous land of rants. I will, however quote something said by Howard V. Hendrix (previously VP [...]

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Best ever spelling correction

I had great plans to write a long post today but the morning was taken up shopping for a hallowe’en costume at the VV boutique and the afternoon is likely to be devoted to writing so the post I’ve been working on will probably appear tonight, or Monday. Hey, sometimes a girl just has [...]

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Seeking

I’m looking for poetry for autumn.
Two years ago I got a great book of haiku and sat wrapped in a wool sweater and holding a cup of tea for the greater part of the day while I read it. I’d like to do that again this weekend, but I’m all out of good stuff [...]

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Tidbits

to keep you going till the end of the week:
Beowulf, in the old tongue, with an Anglo-Saxon harp. Considerable amounts of awesome. Makes me want to learn the language just to see this guy preform.
The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. A blogger after my own heart.
Edinburgh in 1845. [...]

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Hooray!

Hooray!
Dr. Dan, a friend of mine and a science fiction buff, brought me a brand-new, fabulous, beautiful printer. This is me snogging it.

I wrote three short stories last week and this week I plan to write a few more chapters on Secret City. Then I’m going to print them out. Because I [...]

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Good-bye summer

Woke up this morning to find the sky, the concrete, the grubby apartment buildings all around our grubby apartment building the same communist-era grey. The grey seems to have seeped into the trees on across the alley, their fringes are going sallow, not blazing red like last year. Good-bye summer, season of bikini [...]

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National Punctuation Day

On September 24th it was National Punctuation Day in the US.   How on earth did I miss that?

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Oh for God’s sake

It looks like it’s getting more and more dangerous to be a geek. So, you put on the wrong shirt and went to the airport where you were arrested, threatened, frightened and bullied but, lucky you, you’re not dead. Yes, OK, maybe it was a stupid selection, but she could have boarded [...]

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Lately, I’ve been assisting the folks in Bewildering Towers – two ultra-modern glass stilettos in the heart of downtown New York where the idle rich come to dabble in their online specfic magazine Bewildering Stories once in a while – by acting as a slushy. Basically, I read unsolicited stories that have made it [...]

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First firsts

As you know if you’ve been keeping up on the blog (and you have, haven’t you?) things have been a little bit busy at the day job. This has been going on for about three weeks and, though it’s had quite an impact on the amount of writing I’m getting done these days, it [...]

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