Yeah, so...I hate having to go to the doctor first fucking thing, hardly awake, looking like a junky who hasn't fixed in three days, so I can be tapped for however much fucking blood they needed. The sky today looks like stock footage from The Road. Rubber tourniquets and needles and vials of hemoglobin under of post-apocalyptic sky. Who doesn't ( Read more... )

Wake the fuck up, Beast.

Sunny and warm outside. Shadowy and hot inside. One day I will no longer be a prisoner of this House in this city in this strange realm of this sunset country.

Yesterday, I played hooky, and we made the 2:30 p.m. matinée of Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer (2013; Seolgungnyeolcha), based on Jacques Lob's* graphic novel, Le ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the first day of The Vacation. Today, I hit the pause button. Tomorrow, I guess The Vacation will resume.

There's so much I've meant to put down here that I haven't. Such frenetic, fretful days. I've disliked them.

Spooky and I began reading Cloud Atlas last week, and it's wonderful. The film certainly did it service. The last time ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've done an ayem blog entry, but here's one. Why the hell not. The world's back on Caitlín Standard Time, meaning I'm no longer early for everything, and I figure an anti-celebration is in order.

1. I'm at sixes and sevens over the fact that Sirenia Digest #75 has been ready to be PDFed and emailed since March 4th (!), yet ( Read more... )

1. I realized, day before yesterday, that I'd miscalculated* how many days I'd not left the House, by including the last day Out in the tally. Which means that today, not yesterday, is Day 12. Yesterday I set the record, today I break it. Then, says Spooky, I have to leave the House ( Read more... )

1. First off, this is not the end of the first decade of the new millennium. The last year of the first decade is 2010, just as the last year of the last decade was 2000, not 1999. Still, happy new years and all that rot.

2. I'm getting some really...delicious...answers to the post I made last night. The one asking: If you had me alone, locked up ( 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... )

Yesterday...

Well, I learned that December is Cthulhu month at Tor.com, and ellen_datlow has included both Threshold and The Red Tree on a list of selected Lovecraftian fiction (you can get a discount on the books via Tor.com, I think).

Also, Sirenia Digest #48 went out to subscribers late last night. Comments welcome (mostly ( Read more... )

Yes, it's true. Today is Spooky's birthday!

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And she'll just have to make do with the French-maid outfit this year, because the naughty-nurse outfit is in the dirty laundry (not inappropriately).

Um...yeah.

Yesterday, I wrote a very decent 1,551 words on "The Sea Troll's Daughter," which is coming out sort of vaguely like a quasi-feminist ( Read more... )

I think this entry shall have need of partitions...

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Yesterday was the worst sort of writing day. First I sat and stared at the iBook's screen and keyboard for two hours, trying to find the place where The Dinosuars of Mars begins. Then - haltingly, tentatively - I wrote for another three hours. In the end, I had 575 words, none of which may ( Read more... )