When I was in junior high, our band teacher's son was terminally ill and the teacher missed a lot of days of school. To pass the time, we watched a ton of movies. One of the most popular was a short lived series called Amazing Stories (a Spielberg thing from NBC). There was a cartoon short called "The Family Dog" that we watched over and over and ( Read more... )

and especially the kidlit authors/afficianados ( Read more... )

I've been reading a new author blog lately - Walter Jon Williams. He's a mostly local sci-fi guy (lives in NM) and came highly recommended by another one of my favorite authors. Anyhoo, his most recent post cracked me up. It's very similar to what I go through every spring when I get the itch to revist a former NaNo and I start pouring over my ( Read more... )

Woo! I was a finalist in Scalzi's LOLCreation contest :D

http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=144

(I'm "midwinter" over there)

...the LOLcat bible: http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://www.jonathancarroll.com/blog1/2007/09/carrollblog_921_1.html

"Still one of the greatest bargains around-- a pen and a blank notebook for less than the price of lunch. Buying them is buying pieces of optimism.Read the whole post - it's a lovely ( Read more... )

Well, maybe a few. As a child of the '80s and a geek for all things meme-ish, this made my day. A yard of orange-suited Filipino prisoners re-enacting the Thriller video. They're quite good, really :)

Click to view

(found on boingboing.net)

My friend, jediwonderboy, just got this super-cool e-mail...I'm linking it here because I think my writerly friends will enjoy it :)

http://jediwonderboy.livejournal.com/833848.html

(Err...ok - that entry's protected - reposting verbatim here...)


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Joss speaks on the upcomming 2-disc Serenity Special Edition release ( Read more... )

for your Monday night - Firefly done w/ Fisher Price toys (as seen on Whedonesque)

I have no words...