The weather was pretty much a carbon copy of...a bunch of days before it. But somewhat warmer. We made it to 84˚F ( Read more... )

I am on the ragged, tattered end of my last nerve. So, naturally tonight I had a tooth blow apart ( Read more... )

At best, I got three or four hours sleep last night. So, two cups of coffee later, after finally getting up at 8 a.m., I'm trying to focus enough to get through the work I have to do today ( Read more... )

I was awake before seven a.m., but...I was in bed by 11:30 p.m. This whole getting up early thing is weird, after years of being so nocturnal, but it might not be a bad thing. Just weird ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Harlan Ellison died. I want to write something about how much Harlan meant to me, about his acts of kindness towards me, his friendship and encouragement, about his importance to my own work, about how I never stopped being in awe (and a little afraid) of him. He was a giant, and the best I have ever managed is to stand on the shoulders ( Read more... )

So, to answer my question as to the identity of the sculptor who did the Poe bust at the Hay, I realized the answer was right there under my nose, that you coiuld see a name and a date on one of the photos I took. So, I enlarged it:


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

I actually slept about eight hours last night. On the downside, I woke to find that the world is still filled with idiots and douchebags, and that the high today - on the fucking second day of May - will only reach 52˚F.

Yesterday, we read through chapters Seven and Eight of Blood Oranges, found THE END, and so finished with that stage of the ( Read more... )

Cloudy, cold. Green. Green Spring, but not spring. Not spring sensu familiari. Sonya, please correct my Latin if it's too atrocious. Or my English, for that matter. I'm only a poor juggler of words. I squeeze them, and various sounds are released: melodious, hideous, alluring, repulsive, alarming, discordant, anti-harmonic, mucosal, beatific, ( Read more... )

How wonderful to wake this morning and discover that most of the U.S. has adopted Caitlín Standard Time ( Read more... )