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Sick and tired...

I’m sick, tired, and unproductive, though intending to get better soon. Plus: dinosaurs!

Bubonicon starts tomorrow!

If you are or can reasonably contrive to be in the Greater Albuquerque area tomorrow, Friday, August 28th, this is all ye know and all ye need know!

Beam this one up, Scotty. I'll be in my cabin.

(Photo courtesy of baaadasssscomics.)

But just because you’re you, and I’m swell, I’ll give you more info.

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Stuff happens

Now there’s a snappy blog post title. I am the King of SEO!

Okay. Maybe not. Under the circumstances, it’s as close an approximation to a snappy title as I can muster. Deal.

First, though: enjoy the swell cartoon above, courtesy of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Thanks to haikubica for turning me onto SMBC when [...]

Shakin’ it up

I’m not doing enough. Not writing enough, not exercising enough. Not creating enough pleasure in my life. Not getting enough juice out of life, as Tony Robbins puts it.

Also I’m not getting younger, fuck it anyway.  I truly believe that in the very near future our lives – that’s productive, vigorous, joyous life, not having [...]

The sweet smell of (surprise) success

It’s not a cliché if it’s literally true, right?

I’d resigned myself to not having honeysuckle blossoms – with their attendant wonderful aroma – of my own this year. I was prepared to be content with the fact that both the honeysuckles I’ve got in the ground, the store-bought one and the one I coaxed into [...]

Hummingbird Shadows and a Confused Seagull

Aren’t hummingbird shadows on the ground a hoot? At first you think they come from something just floating in the air, like the cottonwood cotton that’s starting to drift like snow in the Valley now and give my allergic friends the fits. Then you realize they don’t just drift with the wind, but pause [...]

Emma meets a caped crusader

Emma and I were walking back down the ditch on the return leg of our walk this afternoon when on the far bank I saw an older Latino guy in a white straw cowboy hat, jeans and a Western shirt coming the other way. That type isn’t superabundant here in the central RGV, but [...]

In which I crave … beans?

Yep. How anti-Pythagorean of me. (Or not; although as is so often the case, the “debunking” on the linked-to site seems to rely largely on flat assertion. Meanwhile the whole “favism“ thing, claiming Pythagoras’ supposed injunctions against beans were meant to avoid bad medical reactions, strikes me as pretty post facto, mapping modern outlooks [...]

Emma vs. the Prehistoric Monster

So when I finally hauled myself out of bed, hot upon the crack of noon (despite my determination to regularize my sleep schedule – which I will do – inspiration hit me late on the current Rogue Angel book; and while I never wait on inspiration, when it strikes, I don’t dodge) I glanced out [...]

Most incoherent email ever

I had to share this with you.

The following is an email I got just now purporting to be from “The lonely woman from Russia [SuzyQ]“. I’ve changed the correspondent’s alleged name to [SuzyQ] in order, I suppose, to preserve the sensibilities of whatever halfwit Russian spammer ginned this up.

Anyway, I think I can promise you [...]