Things I loved about going to World Fantasy Con, in no particular order ( Read more... )

Hello, LJ and You All Everybody. I have been on vacation for two weeks and 4,000 miles (from LA to South Dakota to Montana to Idaho to Washington to Oregon and back down the Pacific Coast), saw parts of the country I'd never seen before, met cool people I hadn't met in the flesh before, visited with family and friends, and it was GOOD ( Read more... )

My friend Chris asked me via Facebook the other day for book recommendations. He'd recently read Under the Dome on his Kindle and was looking for something new. I tried calling him up, but he works when I don't, and vice-versa, so I'm posting this here instead. Chris digs Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Harry Potter. So if anyone else wants to chime ( Read more... )

Just kind of an FYI for anyone else in the area who might be interested: I'm gonna head over to Dark Delicacies in Burbank this Saturday at 2pm, because my friend Zak Jarvis (the one and only voidmonster) is gonna be there, signing copies of the Werewolves and Shapeshifters anthology that his story is featured in! Also, JJA will be there with a host of ( Read more... )

So, Saturday I drove down to San Diego for Conjecture. Town and Country, where the con was at (and where Condor and World Fantasy will be at next year was a bit hard to navigate, and I was worried I wasn't going to make the first panel I wanted to see in time. Luckily, I bumped into Dr. Lisa and gregvaneekhout  (who was on the first panel I wanted to see) in the ( Read more... )

So I bought a Droid X - a few days before Scalzi started posting about his. It just came last night. And so far, I'm an idiot with it, but I really, really like it. And even better - avocadovpx just go one, too! I think this solidifies us being Bosom Droids...or whatever Anne Shirley have would called Diana Barry if they'd lived in this geeky culture with us ( Read more... )

When I was on competitive swim teams, if you were doing a 500 freestyle, they'd put someone at the end of your lane with a lap counter, just in case you couldn't count to 20 on your own. I think I maybe swam the 500 at a meet once - I generally loathed swimming long distance at meets. But I was often the dude at the end of the lane swinging that ( Read more... )

Oliver's been screaming for the past 2-3 hours. He's got a cold and a slight fever, very possibly teething as well, but that's all the doctor found. I've been going in his room at like 15 minute intervals, trying to calm him down for a little while. Sometimes he goes to sleep, or at least quiets down, but when I put him down in his crib, the ( Read more... )

Friday night voidmonster and kirizal came up to visit! I burnt some meat on the BBQ for them. Claire pretended to talk babytalk. Oliver did his best Nazgul impersonation. I tried barley wine for the first time (Zak and I agreed the taste improved the longer it was out of the fridge). We talked movies (Solomon Kane!) and books (China Mieville - 2 new books?!?!) and ( Read more... )

This is not exactly a meme, at least I don't think bogwitch64 intended it to become one, but I'm going to appropriate it that way with hopes that she doesn't mind.

1) How do YOU perceive me? Nothing so difficult as a single adjective. A general feeling of my personality. Whatever comes to mind. For those of you who've met me 'in the flesh' I'm talking about ( Read more... )