Sunny today and a little warmer. We'll be back in the eighties by Wednesday.

I spent the morning getting the digest together, and then I emailed all the files to thingunderthest, and he made a PDF, which Spooky will send out to subscribers this very night. That's two issues in about two weeks. Go me. I hope that you will enjoy "The Last Thing You Should Do ( Read more... )

Overcast and chilly, but the trees still are at least a week or two behind where they should be. Currently, it's 55˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny and 72˚F, here at the beginning of green autumn, that peculiar New England season.

I spent over an hour yesterday looking for the name of the protagonist of The Tindalos Asset. Writing down first and last names, pairing them, trying new combinations. Finally, I hit upon Ellison Nicodemo, and it stuck. Yes, it's a nod to Harlan and also to ( Read more... )

A hot day today, after a hot day yesterday. We made it well over 90˚F yesterday, and we should reach 95˚F. But a cold front and thunderstorms are passing through tonight, and the temperature is supposed to plunge. Tomorrow's high is forecast at 77˚F, almost twenty degrees cooler ( Read more... )

The cooler weather continues, but the heat is coming back full-tilt boogie this weekend. Currently, it's only 77˚F, with the humidity at a mere 33 ( Read more... )

A rainy day today, and chilly. More like April than June. But a Beast abides.

My birth name has finally turned up on my Wikipedia entry. It was always only a matter of time, and after the bibliography in Two Worlds and In Between, in which I included my birth name, was published, I knew it would be sooner rather than later. I'm rather surprised to ( 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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Well, my magic toenail, all the colors of a ripening blackberry, has not yet killed me ( Read more... )

Last night on Facebook, I wrote: Last night, I went off one of one my antipsychotics, and it's one I want to remove from my regimen. I expect I'll be less grumpy and less apt to be an ass to people once it's out of my system. But withdrawal may suck. I apologize ahead of time for...whatever. The drug in question is Seroquel (Quetiapine; 2-(2-(4- ( Read more... )

Today's view of yesterday's stale Hell is vertical, for a change of pace (that's what they call irony):

( Sunday afternoon, 1:54 p.m. )