More on McCutcheon
When I tell people about John McCutcheon, I always forget to mention the one song that people who aren't parents...
John McCutcheon tonight in Santa Cruz
Folksinger/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon is having his annual concert in Santa Cruz tonight, at the First Congregational Church, at 900 High...
Placeholder entry
No time to post lately. Briefly, some of what I've been up to: Cleaning house. Having a successful roundsing. Reading...
Neology
I've started a new mini-blog: Neology, in which I post words I encounter that I don't know the meanings of,...
Long week
Or maybe I mean "weird week." I haven't been sleeping well, but I've been sleeping late. I've been putting in...
Saving the future
Imagine you're an 18-year-old computer gamer in Chicago, and you're sitting around at home one evening when someone you don't...
Assorted notes about Peter
The other morning I had a dream in which I was talking with some kind of a counselor, in her...
Google Earth Mac!
Many Mac users have been waiting with bated breath for the promised Mac version of Google Earth. Now it's here....
No more PowerBooks…
Steve Jobs has just announced Apple's new laptop computer: the MacBook Pro. Two Intel processors inside; 15.4" LCD (up to...
Economy and efficiency as motivations in fiction
Something I see quite often in both submissions and published fiction (including movies) is plots that hinge on people taking...
Week 1
Submission volume dropped a lot in the second half of the week. We had a total of 90 submissions from...
Lockpick Pornography: The Novel
I've posted a couple of times in the past year about Joey Comeau's short novel Lockpick Pornography--first when I first...