Summertime, Summertime
Ah, the joys of summer. Lazy days, hammocks under the maple tree, Â corn on the cob, poison ivy… Wait. I live in southern Oregon. We have poison oak, not poison […]
Kvetching
Policy, er, glitch, er…it's the French!
Amazon still hasn’t come up with an acceptable explanation for what happened over the weekend. Â Or rather, they’ve come up with so many that it’s clear they’re vamping in the […]
Can we say prejudiced?
Amazon has shown its true colors by de-ranking certain types of books. They call them “adult,” but the designation involves a preponderance of gay/lesbian/transexual books amid the erotica. Don’t think […]
AIG paying $1.2 billion in bonuses
That’s right. Not $121 million. Â Not even $165 million. Â $1.2 BILLION, in bonuses and retention payments, a big chunk of it to the very idiots in their Financial Products unit […]
Restart: Fast and Furious
No, not these guys, though I wouldn’t mind meeting Vin Diesel. Or Paul Walker, for that matter… Remember back in early February (that long ago?) when I said I was […]
Why I don't Tweet
Never say never, but really… The Daily Show With Jon Stewart   M – Th 11p / 10c Twitter Frenzy  Â
The $100 Pot of Chili
On Sunday morning, 17 called and asked if he could have some friends over for a last-minute SuperBowl party. Â Now this surprised me, because he’s a theater kid and neither […]
Conference Alzheimer's
So, Wednesday, I had a dinner meeting with a local group of writers, and they asked those of us who had gone to RWA to give a brief rundown of […]
Aaaah….
I finally caught my breath, I think. Â It’s taken me this long to decompress from conference. That’s mostly due to the fact that I was away for just shy of […]
Snow, or Why I Want to Shoot My Children (updated)
They’re good kids. Really they are. I love them very, very much. They’re even old enough I don’t have to pay attention to them every minute. But it snowed Sunday […]