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It occurs to me:

That I've never posted a link to this little piece even though I've played it on my radio show for, yeesh, I dunno, 20 years now on the episode nearest to July 4th. It's from Albert Brooks, maybe best known these days for playing the part of Marlin, the father fish in the Finding Nemo movies, but he's also a comedian whose work I ( Read more... )

I have:

One of the world's worst brains when it comes to remembering stuff. But the library by whom I'm employed has been putting together a little "local history" project called Kids These Days: Growing Up in Newport Beach for a while now, and they sent out an announcement asking if any of us might have a few recollections we could pitch in.

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My dad turned 50 ( Read more... )

Listening to NPR this morning ( Read more... )

Checking out a book ( Read more... )

I don't get around much:

Either on the internet or in the real world, but even I kept hearing about this dystopian SF novel by Hugh Howey called Wool. Apparently, the author had written it as a short story and was selling it through Amazon's Kindle store where it made such a splash that he wrote a sequel story, then another and another and ( Read more... )

Several things coincided this past weekend:

And I found myself for the third time in the past three decades trying to read Pride and Prejudice. Austen is one of my father's favorite authors, for one thing; this year marks the two hundredth anniversary of the book's publication for another; and a writer known as bookplayer over on FiMFiction, the ( Read more... )

I usually forbear:

Mentioning my various Pony-related fictions because I know they cause gallstones in some of my readers. But this guest article I've just had posted over at Chris's One Man's Pony Ramblings blog is more about my observations from on or near the sidelines of the writing and publishing game than it is about Ponies. So maybe that ( Read more... )