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I love superhero movies. Love them madly ( Read more... )

I have seen this concept talked about a lot lately. This sort-of-confused-rant brought on by this Pinterest.Look, I understand and abhor the whole "men are people, women are women" concept. It sucks ( Read more... )

First, the disclaimer: I have great respect for both Caitlin Kiernan and Merrilee Heifetz. The below commentary is in no way whatsoever intended as a dig at either them or their professionalism.

On to the post:

In today's Publisher's Lunch, under the recent sales, we have the following:

Caitlin Kiernan's BLOOD ORANGES, pitched as "if Quentin ( Read more... )

I have a few too many of those, but oh well. My laundry pile is huge, but I still have clean things left to wear to the office. (This is why I own a lot of underwear and socks ( Read more... )

I am feeling very random this morning.

Random observation for the day: how times have changed on TV.

Match Game 74: I love Match Game, and I wish some network would bring it back as a game show. I am startled by my reaction to seeing Richard Dawson or Charles Nelson Riley smoking on set. Dawson smoked cigarettes; Riley smoked a pipe, or on ( Read more... )

sleigh briefly delineates what a good year GRRM is having.

Five years ago when A Feast for Crows came out, I was still working for a large NY Publisher (but not the publisher of the series). I happened to be at a big meeting with the VPs of sales and marketing where they talked about what was going on in the market. They had looked at the NYTimes ( Read more... )

I have just completed all levels of Chrome Angry Birds (plus bonus levels) to the three-star score.

My life is now complete, and I go to board ship for Valinor.

I listened to swimtech and fought my way through Google Chrome and have discovered the joys of Angry Birds.

I'm going to be up all night, aren't I. Also, an all-new way to aggravate my carpal tunnel.

Sure is fun, though. :-)

Over at Jay Lake's blog I responded to a thoughtful post from Abi Sutherland regarding the evolution of type, and how that aspect of life is not reflected in books purporting to demonstrate the future ( Read more... )