I sent this link around to a few friends yesterday before realizing that, really, it needed to be shared further: Kathleen Jennings' Dalek cartoon game. My hands down favorite is this one; it probably should not give me the glee that it does, but something in Piglet's expression just gets me ( Read more... )

It's official: we have house. It's also official: we must fix up said house and move into it by October 31. Which is worth it, because, officially, this means the end of the 8:30 to 9:30 daily leafblowing activities ( Read more... )

(Note: I'm starting this with a spoiler-free discussion; possible spoilers for Inception, The Prestige and The Dark Knight may appear in the comments.)

Christopher Nolan is rapidly turning into one of those directors that I admire, but don't and can't love - primarily because I don't and seemingly can't get into his lead characters, and often find ( Read more... )

( This turned out longer than I thought it would, so placing the entire thing under a cut. The first part is non-spoilery, discussing fiction, my writing methods, and Disney; the second part is spoilery and marked by big capital letters of SPOILERY.

But to answer the question non-watchers of Lost have asked, namely, is this show worth watching, well, yes, but as I explain below, I think it works better if you don't watch it in order. I discuss below. )

Let's all gather together and applaud the efforts of Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong the Alpine skier from Ghana. He may not have won a medal. He may not have even placed particularly high. But he was one of only 49 out of 102 starting skiers to even finish both slalom racers. And he first saw snow in 2002.

It's not even 10:30 yet ( Read more... )

My short story, "Wooden Apologies," is now up at Farrago's Wainscot. Well, less a short story, I suppose, than the retelling of a dream. A small attempt was made to expand it, but that failed, for some dreams resist expansion and explanation. This was one of them.

Much thanks to deborahb for providing the initial impetus to write this, and to selfavowedgeek and darinbradley for ( Read more... )

I hate dreaming of airports. And yet, I so often do ( Read more... )

So I dreamed again last night that it had snowed in South Florida -- a solid snowfall at that, two inches and counting ( Read more... )

Ben Franklin appearing in your dreams - probably bad sign ( Read more... )