A few months ago, Graham got in touch with the folks over at Boomtown Fair, a music festival in the U.K. to see about getting on the lineup.  That particular festival has different districts dedicated to differing musical themes, and one of them, Mayfair Avenue, is focused on electro swing and live swing bands.  Within a few weeks of getting in ( Read more... )

I signed up today for one of Inprint's writing workshops ( Read more... )

Liv is irritated with convention. She says that old convention based on obsolete typewriters dictates that double spacing after periods is obsolete and should be done away with, because fonts are proportional now and the double spacing is unnecessary. She has all sorts of citations to back her up on this. Her boss disagrees. She bitched to me, ( Read more... )

Both stolen, because I have no originality whatsoever today, from lawtalkers.

First, from Ironweed comes the story of idiots who don't understand math. While this isn't really an uncommon situation, the twist in this particular story is that the idots in question aren't Americans. LOTTERY scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale by Camelot - ( Read more... )

I'm not really in fandom. I don't think I've ever been really. I was a Bronzer, but for some reason that feels different to me. With the exception of Angel-->Xander, which was simply a radical interpretation of text, I've never gone into going further than the text presented to me. I don't write fanfic, I don't read fanfic, I don't really care ( Read more... )

I'm writing my own annual review. I hate that. I think my boss hates it too, which is why she's making me do it.

The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook has a section on what to do when your car is sinking. It says this: How to Escape from a Sinking Car ( Read more... )

It's a rare event where I start crying when I'm checking out at Barnes and Noble. In fact, with the exception of blanching a little at the total when buying books for law school, I can't remember ever being this emotional about buying a book ( Read more... )

It's been awhile since we played this game. For those of you new to the program, let me recap: My sister Liv works for an on-line educational company. She writes sentences and paragraphs in reading and writing cirricula for third through sixth graders. Right now, she's asking this question:can you think of a reeeeeally simple historical ( Read more... )

Last night, I went to an art opening ( Read more... )

This morning, I stopped at a local drugstore to pick up my fix, and I found my usual checkout guy otherwise engaged. Since I need diet coke approximately every other day, I've gotten to know the guy who works in the mornings at the front checkout fairly well. This particular drugstore has the photo lab right at the checkout, and my guy doubles as ( Read more... )