Picture this

Picture this:
The author, deep in the Day Job, suddenly becomes aware of Co-worker Paul, who is not actually on shift, waiting by the till. She turns. Co-worker Paul grins, tells her: “Tam, with great power comes great responsibility” before presenting her with the Nerf Maverick. This is the gun that Think Geek [...]

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Something about obsession

I spent last night sitting up in bed reading through old journals. A friend of mine kept journals regularly while she was growing up and I believe she created an invaluable record of the most interesting and lest respected and understood period of human development.
I wish I had started to journal in my early [...]

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Musing

So I’m blogging from work because the day has been completely dead (don’t tell my boss.) and I’ve been thinking about the book I bought this morning.
Today I picked up China Mieville’s book Perdido Street Station today. I’ve been meaning to buy it for, oh, I dunno, years now. I broke into it [...]

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Democracy, blog style

So I got an email in my inbox this morning to the effect that Torquere requires a photo for the back of the book, and they need it stat. I, having no taste whatsoever, am stumped. Therefore I open up to you, dear reader, the Photomagramy-Choose-A-Thon.
I have posted three pictures below but only [...]

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Beer on the waterfront

It’s a spectacularly strange day out here on the edge of Canada. The mist fell last night and is still clinging to everything, roads and buildings, muffling the drone of Monday traffic and hiding the headlights and streetlamps of half a block away. The walk to work today was like a walk through [...]

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In your favour

I’m home from work early, the new karate post is up on time at Shared Vision and it’s freakin’ beautiful out. Sometimes everything goes in your favour.

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Status report

I’m holding static on both Arimasen and City. In fact, I haven’t done much more than a page for each and a couple pages for the opening of Snows this week. Rather than writing, this week has been essentially devoted to martial arts and to managing my social life.
In martial arts the [...]

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I think I’m in love

With Failblog.

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And has ninjas in it!

I finally got to train last night, after five or six weeks of only being able to train off and on due to the Cold of Doom and attendant rib pain. It was a hard, hard class – not because Sensei Mitch really put us through our paces but because sitting on the bench [...]

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Urinals in Space

Here.
Does what it says on the… erm… can.

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