Ugh. Overcast and rainy and windy today. The wind is plucking yellowed leaves from the trees. We actually have "wind advisory" tonight, after flash-flood warnings last night. Currently, it's 62˚F. But cold weather is coming ( Read more... )

Ugh. Another rough night. Currently, it's overcast and 64˚F here in Providence, with 90% humidity. We're about to have a little bit of an Indian Summer, just in time for the trip to NYC. I think the high in Manhattan tomorrow is supposed to be 83˚F, and I guess I'm going to be stuck wearing a T-shirt and jeans to the reading. We'll be taking the ( Read more... )

I'm tempted to say that the lyrics to David Bowie's "Moonage Daydream" are possibly the worst of his career. But he was, after all, only twenty-four. I'd hate people to see the shit I wrote at twenty-four ( Read more... )

The days have hardly been worthy of discussion. Yesterday, I just couldn't bring myself to play that game. We are deep now into the throes of Green Autumn. A crisp August day, if ever there were, to my mind, a contradiction in terms. Currently, it's 72˚F in Providence and sunny. Verdant fall. I had to close my office window ( Read more... )

And Lauren Bacall has died. But when a woman has lived to the ripe old age of 89, and when she has done such very marvelous things with her life, I won't mourn, but only be glad that she lived. I won't even attempt to list all my favorite Bacall films, but To Have and Have Not (1944) and Key Largo (1948) are among my favorite movies ever, and I ( Read more... )

We seem to have settled into low eighties as a matter of course.

Yesterday was a nightmare. Later today, I may make another entry devoted to yesterday.

All subscribers should have Sirenia Digest #102. This month I'm offering a special on Sirenia Digest. Since we're already several chapters into the serialization of The Five of Cups, anyone who ( Read more... )

I'm so far from awake, and I have forgotten dreams I wish I could recall. I made it two whole days without Seroquel, then night before last I gave in. The withdrawal was very bad, and, the way things are, I find it difficult to tolerate sickness when I know I can simply swallow a pill and end the discomfort. But I wish I hadn't ( Read more... )

Cold and sunny here in Providence.

Hello, future me. I hope it all got easier. I truly do.

Yesterday, I wrote the second half of the new Chapter 7 for Alabaster: Boxcar Tales (so now the original Chapter 7 becomes the new Chapter 8). Today, I send it off to Dark Horse. And a two-part interlude becomes a three-part interlude. And all I have to ( Read more... )

I'm trying to wake up after a night when I needed too many pills to get to sleep, trying to wake up and Spooky's reading me a story about some dipshit in Florida who was shot by his dog. "How the fuck did his dog shoot him?" "The safety was off." Okay, so I asked a stupid question. Apparently, Floridian men are shot by their dogs with alarming ( Read more... )

Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure I'm never going to get used to this hideous new interface you have to work with while composing a post on LJ. I've been trying to figure out what this font is (not the one you see when I post, but the one in which I have to compose entries), and I believe it's Consolas. Ugly ( Read more... )