Odd Christmas this year. It's a delight to have D'Argo home, and we know that sooner rather than later, we'll have ED on a part-time basis as well. Enjoy it while I've got it. But the whole "reason for the season" that I seek for every year is gone this year. I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but as my father confessor so wisely put it: ( Read more... )

It's a dirty ending to a filthy novel that I'm glad to see the back of. But Pigs In Space is

DONE.

Then the space aliens arrived ( Read more... )

ED had a paper due yesterday, and the brilliant young woman she is, she had one of her characters in her novel write it to count the words toward her 50K.

Smart cookie, that ED.

Currently I'm at 43,000+ and hoping to break 44K tonight.

And Trea, although I currently have her sedated and under morphine drips, needs to die. I keep trying to kill

I resisted for a long time. Years. But I was given Restoree and I remember stopping about page 10 and saying "WHO wrote this book?"

And then I read everything else by her I could find.

She wasn't the first woman SF writer I read, but she was one of the best.

32,032, words NaNo meter 62% complete

(I like my NaNo meter better than the others.)

PIGS IN SPACE

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The Moonlighting Effect - that dismal change found too often in tv shows when the unresolved tension is resolved. Sam and Diane, two more victims.

Hill Street Blues managed to avoid it by keeping the Frank/Joyce relationship undercover for years.

Leverage is taking another entirely different tack. They don't show the relationship at all ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRq29WjT4g

Real life: what a concept ( Read more... )

Got another weird, dated email about a comment to an old post - in Russian. Thanks to Google translate, I find it says

Thanks for the info
I am glad that your blog is constantly evolving.

Google Translate will also pronounce that translation for you.

Then there's a link - to Russian pr0n.

Please, don't bother. Really. Don't.