First, meme from mamculuna: take a selfie right now, the way you are, and post it. I was so happy to put a face to a name, I thought, okay, I'll do that, frowzy hair, ice cream splashed t-shirt, and all.


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The Inda read at Reddit/fantasy has begun ( Read more... )

Friendships seem to be okay in books, film, and TV, but heaven forbid anyone is committed, except in these favorites.

What are yours?

Finally got to see it today, in company with my son ( Read more... )

A lot of my reading has been of the beta and proofing sort. But there be books.

I also finally got to see Guardians of the Galaxy. Woo, that makes two films this year! The villains are dumber than a box of rocks, and what's with naming people stuff like Thanos and Ronin and Nebula? Well, this is a comic book world, so I guess it fits. And Nebula ( Read more... )

I finally got to see it ( Read more... )

It's way too hot to think ( Read more... )

Dave Trowbridge on raising a puppy and why dominance theory is bad for dogs.

Films, saw a really good German one called Mein bester Feind--"My best enemy." It has subtitles in English, and it's streaming on Netflix.

relayed from malkingrey
For anyone out there who might be considering applying to the Viable Paradise Writers Workshop, the application period for this year closes on midnight of June 15th. Class size is twenty-four - with eight instructors on-site for the entire week, this makes for a fairly impressive teacher-student ratio (the nautically-minded among us ( Read more... )

I've been binging on foreign films again. Some good ones, the latest being Where do we go now?, a tragicomic story set in a remote Lebanese village full of Christians and Muslims, reminiscent of Lysistrata, written and shot by Nadine Labaki, a Lebanese filmmaker. It had me cracking up and made my eyes sting hard.