Unfortunately, I’ve had a rather busy week, so I’m running late on my chapter. I’m hoping to have it — a revision of Chapter Four — done for tomorrow. This week has included an expensive trip to the emergency vet for a very sick Jazz (she seems to be doing better), some long hours at [...]

     Well, we survived firing up the LHC. You can see some footage from their webcams here. Pretty neat stuff.
     Meanwhile, Hurricane Ike is roaring towards Texas:
     ”The total amount of energy is more powerful than Katrina, so we could be seeing a storm surge that could rival Katrina,” Masters said. The storm is so large “the location [...]

     The other day, I was in the mood for some mindless reading material, the book version of popcorn. I dug through my sizable library, finally encountering Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton. Hey, that’ll do, I thought. Mindless reading, plus a little smut. That’s like popcorn with M&Ms mixed in.
     Blue Moon is #8 in the [...]

     ‘ve been doing a lot of reading and movie watching lately, and I’m afraid I’ve been slacking off in the reviewing department. So, that having been confessed, let’s play catch up.
World War Z, by Max Brooks
     Do you own this book? Why not? You should. You should own it, perhaps several copies of it, because writing [...]

     o, last year, the Good Doctor had been coming to visit quite a lot, and of the many things we talked about, one of the things he consistently raved about was this show on the WB, Supernatural. He went on about it so much, I finally tracked it down to watch it. I started reviewing [...]

      went to the local Salvation Army store the other day with VC and Missa, and found a couch. (Love seat, actually, but it’s a bitty apartment, so it works.) I was tickled. I got it for $25, and it’s actually a decent couch. You already know what it looks like — it’s that [...]

     ut first, let me just point to the Navigation menu box to the left, where I’ve put links to some of my fiction. *points* Not all of it is nice stuff. Little Girls in particular is on the gruesome and squicky side.
     Here There Be Spoilers. You’ve Been Warned.
     So, I’m in Wal-Mart the other night, and [...]

     weet Jebus on a pony: Cheney, Others OK’d Harsh Interrogations.
     Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned.
     The officials also took care to insulate President Bush from a series of [...]

      am officially on pins and needles for both Iron Man and Hellboy II: the Golden Army. I must admit, I’m mostly fan-girling over Hellboy, though. I mean, the Iron Man trailer rocks and all, and I love me some Robert Downey Jr, but, you know. Hellboy. Ron Perlman. Ron Perlman as a huge, crabby, [...]

     t’s 7:30 in the morning, and thanks to the charming little cold I’ve picked up, I can’t sleep. I was actually dead to the world up until about an hour ago, but I woke up just enough for small things to begin to settle in. My back ached a little. My nose was a little [...]