As promised, silly dialogue about birds. But first!!

So, I spent this morning counting words.( L&W is a long book )

Note to self: Rambling stream-of-consciousness blog posts are BAD. Concise essays on a single topic are GOOD. This post is going to be BAD. Very BAD. You know what, I'm actually going to abandon these useless value-laden terms. This is a blog post. Complaints should be directed to the Complaint Department, where they will be given very careful ( Read more... )

I made a list of all the books I read in my absence (OK, that sounded funny...I had an out-of-book experience...never mind.), and...it's a really long list. Mostly YA Fantasy, but not entirely by a long shot. So, I'm going to divide my reviews and thoughts into (hopefully) coherent posts. Some topics I plan to cover are: "Jane Austen's Ladies ( Read more... )

This morning (I desperately wanted to say tomorrow, but American Samoa is just east of the International Date Line), between Samoa (or Western Samoa if you are an American Samoan) and American Samoa there was an earthquake of magnitude between 7.9 and 8.3 (depending on whom you ask)*, creating a** tsunami traveling outward in three basic directions ( Read more... )

WRITERS BLOCK:
Putting the laws of time and plausiblity aside, picture a battle between the megalodon (a prehistoric shark with a six-foot jaw span) and a giant squid (reported to be the size of a school bus). Who would win?

Normally, I ignore these things, but I had to write about this because...OMG! It's Squid vs. Shark!  (And, obviously, I don't ( Read more... )