Rumors of my death are scarcely exaggerated. Home now, and doing much better.
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I sit in my seventh floor penthouse room watching the most beautiful snowstorm I’ve ever seen. Fat flakes nudge the window, sometimes floating and fluttering, currently driven. I can see no more than maybe a quarter mile. Snow blankets rooftops and rooflines and flocks the trees. Welcome to the Equinox, and the first official (bureaucratic) day [...] You might as well know it, if you don’t already: there’s tension between the writer’s need to connect with his or her fans – through, say, oh, I don’t know, blogs? – and the writer’s need to make money. You can clearly see which end of the dilemma I’ve been coming out on lately. The problem is, [...] Gee, I hope not. And I can’t literally be. I was sound asleep and Emma Dog roused me crying to go outside; that’s the only reason I’m up and around at this Godless hour. When Emma wants out, I let her out. I’m just going to say she’s a big dog, and let it go [...] So tonight I got fed up with Emma’s favorite pillow spilling its foam guts all over everything. I could’ve bought her a new one at Wal-Mart when I went there earlier, but I’m in cheap mode at the moment. Instead, mad improviser that I am, I decided to stuff the old pillow into a (fresh, clean) [...] Emma Dog still seemed sore today from yesterday’s walk. I wanted to go out again to try an experiment that occurred to me on the ditch yesterday. So I stuck my water bottle carrier and other walking accouterments into my backpack in hopes of sneaking out without her making me feel like Hitler for leaving [...] Emma Dog and I were walking south down Bear’s Ditch, headed back for the car on a pleasant summer evening, when we encountered a Mama Mallard and her family of maybe 6-8 adorable ducklings. Like these. They happened to be approaching a culvert beneath a dirt road. Mama Mallard steered the brood expertly clear. Except for [...] Yes! At last I’ve scored the final ingredient. Now all that remains is to assemble the pieces I have painstakingly gathered together. Then launch The Process. Next – World Domination! No, wait – that’s when I finish The Dinosaur Lords. Still, I’m really stoked about this Secret Project. Once it gets going I’ll see how my litte cellphone camera [...] Santa Fe journalist and music maven Steve Terrell clued me into what he rightly termed this revoltin’ development from eMusic: they’re raising their prices. Yes, now. What a bright idea! So I was moved to write them the following in response: Dear eMusic: While I’ve enjoyed and championed you service for years despite faults such as dubious tech [...] Tonight Emma heard two words she’s almost never heard from me in juxtaposition before. Bad dog. I was sitting on the sofa writing. Emma got up from lying on the living room floor nearby and went to the kitchen to get a drink. After a while I noticed she was taking an unusually long time getting a drink. [...] |
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