Mystery objects orbit Earth
According to NASA, a 60-foot object that nobody can quite identify is orbiting Earth. It could be an asteroid, but...
Past imperfection
I could've sworn I'd ranted here about some writers' inability to use the past perfect tense properly, but a quick...
Growing up
I bought John McCutcheon's new album, The Greatest Story Never Told; it's now mixed in with my MP3s, in random...
Slink, slank, slunk (words easily confused #2)
We've had half a dozen submissions in the past couple years that include phrases of the form "[person] slunk down...
Downs and ups
On the down side, still not feeling well. On the up side, we're doing a promotion in the Strange Horizons...
More of God’s critters
My favorite Bill Staines songs are "All God's Critters (Got a Place in the Choir)" and (Nanci Griffith's version of)...
Much better
Drove Mary Anne to the airport (sadness! No more Mary Anne!) around mid-day today. The 84-degree heat was somewhat oppressive...
Recipe for a cold
Let's see. . . . Start with too much to do, both at work and outside of work, and some tight deadlines, and...
Product name
I continue to be surprised by hearing people refer to Microsoft Word as Microsoft. As in, "I was writing this...
Only a little panicky
Workshop was good, but even more exhausting than it would've normally been, due to sleep deprivation. As previously noted, got...
Near misses
Went to bed about 2:30 this morning. Around 4:15, noticed that I was still awake. Might have dozed a little...
Slush: an alternative view
Paula Guran has an essay about the horrors of reading slush at DarkEcho. At some point I hope to write...