I know I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but I thought I’d plug it again because my copy just arrived in the mail. Now…
Pronounce the dot.
I know I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but I thought I’d plug it again because my copy just arrived in the mail. Now…
A photo of mine is featured in the new book, Signs of Life. It’s this one, taken on September 25, 2005 just a few blocks…
I just got my copy of Katrina-ku: Storm Poems, a compilation of haiku poetry about you-know-what, to which I contributed a little technical assistance. It’s…
So you are tired of your life, young man! All the more reason have you to live. Anyone can die. A murderer has moral force…
And in a wild and sudden dance We mocked at Time and Fate and Chance — William Butler Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin
Lately I’ve been posting about my personal experiences post-Katrina. I haven’t written much about the “big picture.” But if you care about me and Xy…
For over four years I’ve been attending monthly meetings of the Octavia Books Science Fiction Club. I was there at the first meeting in the…
Today the Octavia Books Science Fiction Club discussed our 50th book — Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. Actually, only two members of said club…
The Xavier University Bookstore is selling copies of the new Harry Potter book — two days early. This could be trouble, like what happened in…
Seems like there’s always something in the morning paper to make my blood boil. This morning it was a story about a legislator from Slidell…
This is kind of gross, so don’t read just before dinner. This morning I entered the men’s room near my office to find the toilet…
We went to see a musical duo called One Ring Zero at my favorite bookstore. It seemed like everyone we knew was there, including Ben…
It’s my turn to pick books for the Octavia Science Fiction Reading Club. That means I have to pick three novels on a theme, and…
I’m sure by now, anyone who cares has seen this article: “A Whitewashed Earthsea – How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books” by Ursula…
I did it! I finished my novel. It’s not the 50,000 words required by NanoWriMo. It’s only 21,469 words. So it’s not actually long enough…
I’m at 15,508 words. The month is more than half over. Ideally I should be over 25,000 words at this point. I seem to be…
I’ve been working on this novel for seven days now, and I’ve written 7,402 words. They’re not necessarily good words, but NaNoWriMo is about quantity,…
I think I’m going to participate in the National Novel Writing Month. I’m going to try to write a novel in thirty days. I don’t…
Tonight I attended the first meeting of an eight-week anarchist study group organized by John Clark, a former disciple of Murray Bookchin. (It appears they…
Xy and I went to see Jonathan Kozol speak at Loyola. He’s the guy who wrote Savage Inequalities; I’ve never read it, but Xy did…