There was a time I made entries of substance here. I wrote robust paragraphs many lines, many sentences, long. I'm not sure when or why that changed. I have begun making entries that look like online news articles, that appear to follow that idiot dictate of contemporary journalism - that, ideally, no paragraph ought be more than a single sentence' ( Read more... )

The sun is back today, and so is the cold.

Happy Turkey Day. If you count from the Lincoln Proclamation of November 1863, this is the 150th American Thanksgiving Day. That's a lotta dead birds. Tasty dead birds ( Read more... )

Oddly warm today. Presently 62˚F, but with pouring, wind-driven rain, so it's not as if we can enjoy the oddly warm weather. And tomorrow the cold is returning, with temperatures in the thirties ( Read more... )

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

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I don't trust new houses ( Read more... )

Strange days ( Read more... )

Okay, I was not just having a heart attack, so that's one thing that didn't go wrong today. As for the Turkish disappointment, I'm thinking I'm not going to say much else on the subject. But there is this write up (in Turkish), from KAOS GL, a Turkish GLBT rights group. There are people I want to thank for kind words yesterday, people here and in ( Read more... )

I'm gonna get this out of the way up front: On March 6, I was contacted by the English Department of İstanbul Üniversitesi and invited to appear in early November as keynote speaker and deliver a paper during the Fourth International Akşit Göktürk Conference - "Madness and Literature." I was stunned and overwhelmed by the offer. There's going to be ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I wrote 1,135 words on Red Delicious and finished Chapter Five. Two or three chapters to go. I'll be pausing now to do Sirenia Digest #87. But the novel should be finished by the end of the first week in April ( Read more... )