I love my family...but sometimes I don't *like* some them very much.  Or rather, I don't care for their behavior ( Read more... )

Happy December to all and sundry!  (LJ seems pretty quiet, so I'm not sure if anyone's still here.)

Things I'm thankful for:

• Movember is over.
• A lovely holiday with asimplechord and her husband, including hockey and gluttony.  We made this awesome salad, which I'll be making at home (in a smaller quantity), and A demonstrated how to make scones using a food ( Read more... )

:(  NBC, your coverage of the French Open is pathetic.  No pre-empting the crap-fest that is the Today show for the Biggest Damn Match of the Tournament, what a lot of tennis people think is the effective final taking place one round early because of seeding? Leaving the match between Novak Djokovic (world #1) and Rafael Nadal (seven time champion ( Read more... )

People are assholes. Rude, thoughtless, petty, and a waste of oxygen.

Every so often I start to think otherwise but then a string of incidents reminds me.

Over the weekend, why_me_why_not pointed out that HBO was free, so I tuned in for the premier of season 5 of True Blood.  I'm actually kind of sorry I did:  it was heinous.  The storylines made no sense and didn't really seem consistent with the characters, even as divergent as they are in the show from the book's canon.  (Which is to say, the TV series has only ( Read more... )

First, Happy New Year to all!

Second, I've posted a bunch of things over at WordPress and forgotten to link or re-post here.  

• Lori G. Armstrong pimp post -- Julie Collins mysteries (4) bundled for $9.99
• Publishing/writing profession as seen in two plays recently
• Best of 2011 in reading for me
• Recent YA reads
• Books saved from the donation pile

I wrote a quick and possibly inappropriately influenced by too much wine post on the purpose of About the Author pages.  Posted over at WordPress.

I posted about out of date author websites over at WordPress.

In short:  why bother to have a website if the information on it is stale?  And by stale, I mean months or years old.

+  Clusterfluff ice cream from Ben & Jerry's -- yum.  If you like fluffernutter sandwiches, you'll probably like Clusterfluff.  PB ice cream with swirls of peanut butter and marshmallow and chunks of peanuts and caramel.  I accidentally melted a pint of it today while grocery shopping and running errands.  Fortunately for me, is refroze fairly well ( Read more... )

To borrow Inigo Montoya's line to the Great Vizzini, I do not think that word means what you think it means ( Read more... )