1. Apparently, I did forget to make an official announcement about this, so here goes the official announcement: I will be at Lone Star Con in San Antonio, August 29-September 2, 2013. Apart from definitely owing Cat Rambo and a few others some drinks, I have no official schedule, so if you are there, feel free to come by and wave; I'll be the ( Read more... )

My holiday gift to you all -- apologies in advance ( Read more... )

For those of you waiting impatiently for Les Miserables next week, the Little One would like to offer up his latest poem, which he feels perfectly captures the spirit and meaning of the original novel ( Read more... )

Oh come oh come bloggers of Livejournal ( Read more... )

So sometime last fall the kindly editors at Innsmouth Free Press made the mistake of complaining, on Twitter, that they were just not seeing enough stories focused on ancient Egypt for their upcoming multi-ethnic issue. Let me clarify. The mistake was not the complaint. The mistake was allowing me to see the complaint ( Read more... )

On either side of Easter lie ( Read more... )

And to start your day off on a properly horrible note, some limericks ( Read more... )

This is just to say

I do not
need to be
headbutted
on the toilet

forgive me
your head
is furry
and soft
and sweet
but it is
really cold

and I want
to use
the toilet
in peace.

The rhymes attacked again after my last entry ( Read more... )

So the power went off at our building at around 2 pm -- sorry, my fellow Boca wage slaves, but it appears to have been isolated to Just Us, leaving the various electronic machines in the area beeping in agony, which led me to flee to another corner of the building and settle there in a decidedly non-working kinda way waiting for the power to come ( Read more... )