Right Now

Adam is cleaning the horrible streaky grey mold in the microwave right now. I wanted to throw the damn thing out, but for some reason I couldn’t bring myself to touch the microwave after discovering the mold.
I’m a housekeeper. I can handle most of the bodily gross that happens at home. Vomit? Feces? Pass me [...]

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Vast Schwaks of Links

Phew. I’ve got a large collection of links to share.
Brains make chaos. From the Department of Science Figuring Out What We All Ready Knew. Kinda.
Warren Ellis writes a twenty minute speech. Be afraid.
The A-Bombed tree project. Haunting and beautiful.
Chimpunks vs Ewoks.
Also, this, about which nothing can be said. (Via Hayden Thorne.)

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Reith Lectures

I’ve been listening to the Reith Lectures for the last little while. This year’s series has been all about the morality and the market, the interstices of which makes for some interesting if short lectures. So far, they’ve covered transhumanism, gay marriage, and the virtue of markets. They’re available on the BBC if you want [...]

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Yay!

I’m pleased to announce A Field Guide to Assassins of Muromachi Street, the sequel to Mediocre Assassin’s Handbook is forthcoming from Prizm Books!

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Home

We went out camping at China Beach this weekend. From the number of people out there, we were lucky we got the space we did, which was a big, double campsite that we shared with friends and their baby.
As it usually does on that side of the Island, the rain rolled in about six [...]

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Away!

I shall be indulging in a Ludite’s weekend, and shall be completely and utterly incommunicado for fourty eight hours starting right… about… now. I hope you all enjoy your weekend. I certainly intend to enjoy mine

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Bad brain!

I’m waiting to hear the fate of a submission I sent a little while ago. I am, as we all know, not exactly patient. Now, perhaps in an effort to remind me how not-patient I am, my brain appears to have gone on strike. I am not writing again, even though I’ve got a project [...]

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Ava Rara

It’s summertime, and not that long ago, I had a habit of being in the UK at this time of year. Now, because I’m not in the UK in summer, I eat a lot of strawberries, listen to the Wimbledon coverage (although I know nothing about tennis) and watch Simon Pegg and Nick Frost movies. [...]

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Drank too much coffee this morning and am now a certified spaz. Only one thing to do, then. Write something.

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COE day?

I was so excited for the coffee delivery that I woke up before my alarm. My first thoughts were, “Oh, the COEs come in today!”
COE stands for Cup of Excellence, a program designed to pit single origin coffees up against one another in a highlander-style coffee competition at the end of which, well, there can [...]

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