So, last night was, for Birmingham, cold dammit, and it looks like tonight may be even worse. At least there was no "wintry" precipitation. The low last night was 27˚F, with a windchill of 16˚F. Our high was 34˚F, which is the current temperature. The low tonight is forecast at 24˚F ( Read more... )

So, yeah. Eco is dead, too. Maybe it's only an illusion, at this point, only a semblance - the world suddenly casting off some of it's brightest creative lights. Likely, there's nothing statistically significant about the six weeks or so. But it sure seems so.

I was never crazy about Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), but Il pendolo di ( Read more... )

From the day we filmed for The Drowning Girl book trailer at Moonstone Beach, this moonstone signed by the cast and crew:


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Sunny today, and currently 44˚.

My new moron detector: "totes."

I did not, yesterday, mean to start some sort of kerfuffle by reporting Threshold's first royalty check. To quote Scott Connors (who said this on my Facebook page last night), "Another writer friend of mine told me once that getting a royalty check is a lot like winning the lottery: ( Read more... )

There is a buttermilk sky today, hiding the icy blue ( Read more... )

For now, summer has slipped behind a veil of rain and cloud. The temperature has dropped into the seventies ( Read more... )

The best line I have ever uttered in RP, from night before the last: "Jack, it's a long way to Hell, and there are no milkshakes there."

1) Here in Providence, the weather is slowly warming, and as the temperature rises, so too my mood. Currently, the temperature is 68˚F, and the office window is open.

2) Vince Locke (he who illustrates almost ( Read more... )

The sun just came out, and the weather is finally warming in Providence ( Read more... )

I'm listening to Keaton Henson's album. It's a beautiful thing. Utterly fucking beautiful. My thanks to whoever was kind enough to send it to me. Outside, the sun is coming and going, and the ceiling of clouds has, mercifully, been shattered. It's only 57˚F right now, and it likely won't go higher than 66˚F, and, even here in Providence, this is a ( Read more... )

The weather is grinding me down. Day after day after day now of rain and overcast skies, highs in the fifties Fahrenheit, sixty if we're lucky. Outside it's green, but I cannot summon the energy to step out into the dank and wet and chill. And this is May? I haven't been outside since Monday, but tonight is Kindernacht, and I'll go out with Spooky ( Read more... )