Our friend Bonnie came from Arizona this weekend to meet Oliver and play with Claire and hang out with Emma (she was one of Emma's college roomies ( Read more... )

Got a call from a friend today, found out another friend from college died of a heart attack. She was a year younger than me. I hadn't talked to her for 7-8 years. It's still really hard to believe. Her name was Sunny and she lived up to that name ( Read more... )

How is it that I have never seen or even heard of The Hebrew Hammer, about an orthodox Jew who's on a mission to save Hanukkah from Santa's evil son? Also, evil Nazis?

Thankfully, I've got friends like Evan Goer to educate me.  You've got to check out this clip he posted for me of Adam Goldberg facing down some fascists.

As Evan points out, I do ( Read more... )

Cordell showed up on my doorstep this weekend with a bunch of suitcases and a pack of Strongbow.  The dude's a traveller and I dig that about him.  He had a friend who was driving out from NYC to transplant in LA who wanted a driving partner, and Cordell said, "Hey, I've got friends in LA."  So I took the Strongbow and sent him up to my in-laws ( Read more... )

It started raining here Thursday.  Raining really hard.  Which isn't much of a problem, really.  Usually, I love it when it rains here, especially if it's in the middle of the summer (because it NEVER lasts, you see).  But the problem with it raining was that Chris, one of my longest and best friends, was coming over for dinner with his family.  ( Read more... )

Don't blame Claire -- she was suckered into taking this picture with the prospect of listening to more Irish music (yes, we bribe our kid.  How else are you supposed to do it?).  She promptly took the headband off after Emma snapped the photo.


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Gunplay is the haunting, bullet riddled tale of a Buffalo Soldier condemned to roam the Big Empty with a hellish curse slung at his waist - a demonic shooting iron that forces Abner to kill once a day or suffer soul searing pain.

Seriously, what's not to love?

It's all part of the synopsis of the comic Gunplay my good friend Dominic Vivona ( Read more... )

Fallen Horizon is in the process of being sent out for critiques.  Very very excited about moving to the next step with this story, especially since so many of you guys reading this helped me move the last step at VP.  You guys rock.  Thanks!

This weekend was pretty busy, but also pretty freaking cool.  Saturday, I got to go down to Conjecture and ( Read more... )

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Claire started preschool today.  This brings up a lot of weird emotions in me, not because I'm worried about how she'll do, but because I'm not sure how *I'm* going to do.  I mean, she's not supposed to be in pre-school yet.  She wasn't born that long ago, she can't really be old enough.  Sigh ( Read more... )