Poll Ow!

(modulo various health crises, weddings, etc.)


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I have recently gotten word that I will be participating in the Circlet authors' reading at VeriCon at Harvard University on Friday the 23 of this month.

I'll be reading from my forthcoming story, The Ontological Engine, or, the Modern Leda. This will be of particular interest to anyone who has enjoyed Victim/Victorian, as Ontological Engine is ( Read more... )

One of the things that keeps me from being the Productive Smut-Writing
Citizen I want to be is my predilection for the creation of circular
dependency trees, where doing A requires doing B first, B requires C,
and C demands the prior completion of A.

This week, the mighty bOINGbOING* picked up my homie Balan Nubilis'
essay in this venue from a ( Read more... )

( Awesome. (SFW, actually) )

I: Did I get come in my hair?

She: it seems likely...

I: You mean, 'it's seemin' likely.'

She: Gaaah! [bite, bite, bite]

So I went around for a week or so, saying that I totally ought to write a spoof of Take Me Out to the Ball Game entitled "Tie Me Up with a Ball Gag, and that I intended to do so Any Day Now.

Eventually, the adorable mme_louise had a slow day at work, and sent me this:

Tie me up with a ball gag ( Read more... )

You know how certain experiences cause you to look at the world in a new way? Now that I've scanned my toolchest and medicine cabinet with insertability in mind, I see the world of vaguely-cylindrical shapes much more intensely than before ( Read more... )

The other day, I was at my local bookstore cafe. I finished my mocha, put my book away, and got up from my stool. Something in my knee went pop, and for three agonizing seconds I struggled not to collapse to the floor. Then it popped back and I hobbled over to the counter ( Read more... )

I'm gonna step down off my usual pontificatory hobbyhorses here, and talk practical like.

For the past several years, I've been in the habit of buying my condoms in bulk from RubberTree.org, Their extremely no-frills site was more than made up for by a good selection and generally unbeatable prices ( Read more... )