You know, it's hard to write about cons without it being all "So this one time, at band camp ( Read more... )

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This entry started with two awesome folks who submitted their favorite blog entries after I'd already posted the others.

But then I left it alone in the lab overnight, and it started to mutate. The green bubbly goo overflowed the Erlenmeyer flask. Strange vapors curled their gaseous tendrils up into the air vents. And then there was no containing it ( Read more... )

This is late, and that's largely because I got back home to an apartment with no A/C. Did I mention it's 108 degrees all this week?

But that is not the point. The point is: PEOPLE ARE AMAZING. I will fast-forward through my hollering and squealing about how fantastic ArmadilloCon was in order to reiterate that. The guy I choffed cheese-balls with in ( Read more... )

You know, I can distinctly remember reading about film and TV writers being forced to work through committee and even sometimes getting kicked off of their own projects, and thinking, "Man, I'm so glad I'm only doing books - everything belongs to me and I can do it all by myself."Isn't ignorance adorable? It's like looking at embarrassing naked ( Read more... )