So I've been pretty quiet here for a while. I'm still lurking, though! I do have a new, primarily writing-focused blog up, though, so feel free to come on by!

In other exciting news, I have two poems up in the new issue of The Rat's Ass Review (my apologies to anyone who's hearing this for the third time). Check it out!

Meme from c0untmystars --

Comment to this post and I will give you a letter. Upload and share five songs beginning with that letter.

I was given "S." I actually have no idea how to upload the songs, so I'll just list them...

1. Say Hey (I Love You) -- Michael Franti & Spearhead: My current favorite dance-around feel-good song.

2. Short Skirt/Long Jacket -- Cake: ( Read more... )

...you'll love "Hamster in a Wok"! (Don't worry, it's not being cooked.)

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Further proof that the Benny Hill theme song makes everything better.

Wow, I think I finally figured out what genre my novel-in-progress is!

So I knew Shakespeare invented a lot of words, but I hadn't realized how many (and which ones) had caught on and are still in (very common!) use today. Lonely? Alligator? Negotiate? All words Shakespeare invented.

meme from c0untmystarsPut your iTunes/other music-playing whatever on shuffle. Use the titles of the songs that come up to answer the following questions ( Read more... )

So, I just hit 15,000 words on my NaNo tonight. A bit behind schedule, but I still have hope that this will be the year I crack 50,000. (Even if not, it's still a whole bunch of writing I've managed to get myself to do.) I did about 10 of the song prompts, and then they had their intended consequence of getting me re-inspired for my novel-in- ( Read more... )

I hear stories all the time about Jesus showing up on a tortilla or the Virgin Mary appearing on a dirty hospital window. Well, now it's Buddha's turn. Which, really, only seems fair ( Read more... )

I just got my copy of the new issue of Alehouse, which contains my poem "Regressions" (available at http://alehousepress.com/). Yay!

I also got the electric bill, but it was lower than I expected. Yay!

Rosa sat, Martin marched, Obama ran, so that our children could fly.