http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/the-ordinary-everyday-superstars-of-youtube-7902953.htmlI'm amazed and slightly baffled at how this new industry has developed lately. When YouTube started, it was goofy & funny videos posted for free. Now there are top personalities on it, and with the Google buyout and the new partnership program ( ( Read more... )

Hey, I'll admit it. I've read all the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum books. True, the later ones (they always have a number in the title that tells you its place in the series, like the current one is Crazy Eighteen or something) are pretty much fill-in-the-blank plots and character arcs. But when they started going in the beginning, by Three to ( Read more... )

Remember the old Weird Al? That skinny, nutty, whiter-than-white guy with the mop of curly hair, silly mustache, thick glasses and dorky high voice? He's brilliant -- and I mean, high IQ and so inventive in his song parodies -- but I hadn't really thought of seeing him in concert ( Read more... )

The month of July two different anthologies with my story "Little Red," an adult retelling of a famous fairytale, came out. I just got confirmation from Ellen Datlow, co-editor of Snow White Blood Red now on the Fall River imprint from Barnes & Noble, that my contributors' copy of that anthology is coming to me soon ( Read more... )

In the past few months, I've been told something that I've heard for years. "You're just a fount of information." If the person is annoyed, then it's often more like, "You're just full of cr*p, aren't you?" But I've also had people take a moment to tell me that something I said in my blah-blah-blah really helped them. Because I don't just talk, I ( Read more... )

I neglected to say in my previous trip report that I took Seattle's monorail over to the Space Needle. I think that makes 3 monorails I've ridden in my life now, and the other two were Disney ones (west coast and Florida/east coast). Both ways, some of the other passengers were confused by the stopping. It really only goes less than a mile for $4. ( Read more... )

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Wow, what an impressive crowd in Washington DC yesterday! Man oh man ( Read more... )

October 30 - in Washington D.C.
The Rally to Restore Sanity

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are having an anti-Glen-Beck rally in DC next month! I am soooo there!

Is it for realz? They seem to be saying on multiple shows stuff about it. If my buddies in Alexandria give me the okay about staying at their place, I am really going, dawg ( Read more... )