In all ways, today has been a better day than the last several. However, it's getting colder, and the next two are three are going to be, by Jefferson County, Alabama standards - brutally cold. Today's temperature was not so bad. The high was 49F, but the low tonight will be 30F, and then the real cold arrives ( Read more... )

I think our Indian Summer has ended. It was overcast today and only reached 69F ( Read more... )

Overcast, rainy, and the high was 52˚F. There is some genuinely cold weather on the way ( Read more... )

Firstly, one of the few reviews of Cloud Atlas that anyone need bother reading (Peter Debruge, Variety; September 8th). The closing line is prescient: The R-rated epic should find a substantial audience when Warner Bros. releases it Oct. 26, assuming critics don't kill it in the cradle.But, here's something to lift the spirits: Of all the authors ( Read more... )

I am realizing all over again that, as with books, and as with paintings, and...as with all art...there are human beings who are simply too stupid to be trusted with great film. I saw yesterday that a reviewer at CNN has chosen Cloud Atlas the second worst film of 2012. Then it was pointed out to me that a reviewer at Time chose it as the worst ( Read more... )

You know, one day we're going to want all this life back...

Destroy
These walls you've built around yourself.
You can't take another step until they're gone. ~ Assemblage 23

Yesterday, I wrote another 1,565 words on Black Helicopters (definitely a working title). I'm actually almost enjoying writing something that I'm actually almost enjoying ( Read more... )

Not exactly the best morning ever. Overcast and drear. The temperature is going up to 57˚F, which means I fucking ought to get off my ass and be Outside. But I won't, because I took my break (during which the weather was wet and freezing) and now I have to work. And, besides, getting back to how this morning sucks, I hardly slept last night, and ( Read more... )

So...the weird news coming out of Arkansas. Or, rather, what we might perceive as the weird news coming out of Arkansas, if we set aside the certainty of coincidence* and the inevitability of highly improbable occurrences ( Read more... )

So, yesterday was an amazingly productive day. We did a read-through on "Highway 97," and then I wrote an afterword for the chapbook (1,206 words). I talked to my agent and caught up on e-mail. We read the prologue of Daughter of Hounds, and I discovered it takes about nine hours on my cranky old Epson inkjet jalopy to print a 691 pp. ms. ( ( Read more... )

Hopefully, everyone now has Sirenia Digest #4. Thank you, Gordon. Thank you, Spooky. Thank you, Vince and Ted and Bill. And a big thank you to all the subscribers. If you're not a subscriber, you may yet remedy that simply by following this linkLately I've been feeling like I'd miss at least half of everything interesting that's going on in the ( Read more... )