Mostly sunny here in Providence, but chilly. Fifty-something degrees Fahrenheit.

Yesterday, I wrote 2,127 words, and finished "Cages I," which will appear in Sirenia Digest #76, which should be out late on the tenth. Actually, "Cages I" is a sort of a collaboration, though not of the conventional literary sort. Don't worry, answers are coming. I ( Read more... )

Because Sirenia Digest #76 will probably be late, I offer something to tide you over (courtesy anomieus):


Austra The Beat & The Pulse from The Glitoris on Vimeo.

I like art that at first makes you mad. Good art provokes and inspires, baffles and even shocks us. Sometimes with its beauty, sometimes with its amazing ugliness. ~ John Waters

Why is this not perfectly fucking obvious? Why do people have to be told these things by artists? Why is the self-evident evidently so hard to see ( Read more... )

A rather spectacular thunderstorm this morning. Now it's cloudy, and cooler than it's been lately ( Read more... )

There was no time yesterday for a blog entry, as we had to drive to Massachusetts to find a screening of Avatar that wasn't 3-D.But, had I made an entry yesterday, I would have said that, on Thursday I somehow went from completely locked up (first half of the day, carrying over from Wednesday and Tuesday) to writing 1,106 words on "The Jetsam of ( Read more... )

This afternoon, while I worked, I kept the TV on the NASA Channel, trying not to be nervous about whether or not the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter would manage a successful insertion. I'd get up every ten or fifteen minutes to see how things were going. I literally chewed a hole in my bottom lip during the half hour of radio silence as the orbiter ( Read more... )