Last night I got a message from asakiyume asking if I'd heard a song ("Sleeping Sun" by Nightwish, if you were curious), and I replied that I had indeed heard it! I listened to it a bunch while working on...something. I couldn't remember what. So I fired up iTunes and listened to it...and soon was overcome by the almost irresistible urge to work on SHADOW OF VENGEANCE. Well, I guess that...

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In the comments to my previous post, I told the following story: Many years ago, I applied for a position with a mining company. There was a painting of a strip mine on the moon hanging on the wall and when I commented on it, the man interviewing me (he was pretty far up the chain in the company) explained that he had commissioned the painting, because it was his dream to someday mine the moon....

P9233622.JPG , originally uploaded by Heyes . Time to shake up the whole flickr-blog. So these are meant to be proof that I actually take photos when I go a'walkin' (but well before midnight) with asakiyume . Thanks for viewing.

My last post proved prophetic, and the computer at home seems to be dead.  We've got a repair person coming on Monday, but until then I'll have to fumble along with library access. Today I had a great bike ride to the next big college town, and a lovely visit with asakiyume  .  Tonight, I'll be studying like a mad thing.  I've got so much to say and so little time to say it.  More later...

Three good things This week I: Received my utterly lovely copies of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany . Coworkers and family members are thrilled. Features work from the talented pens of las and asakiyume ! (If any other of my LJ friends contributed, tell me!) My first accepted short story was published online today. I sweated the editing process, but all came out well. Better...

On the alienation front, lesser_celery has now posted the full TOC for Not One of Us #40 , while asakiyume offers up (with sea-drowned sculptures) a review ! On the other alienation front— Paul Newman ? Folk devils and chandeliers Someone always disappears —My Favorite, "Absolute Beginners Again

Enough people have said Harpy should be a YA that I'd be a moron not to listen. And I don't disagree. I mean, I like it the way it is, with Harriet as an adult, but I can see the reasoning behind making it YA. (It has a lot of YA themes -- wanting to be normal, parent issues -- and thanks to the way she was raised, Harriet is pretty emotionally immature.) It's just been the how to do it and still keep...

My poem "The Plague Hill" has been accepted by Mythic Delirium . It was originally written for asakiyume and Colmers Hill; to the best of my knowledge, there is not a piece of historical truth to it. All hail local legend, instead. From Penelope Fitzgerald's The Knox Brothers (1976), a passage of which nineweaving read me yesterday: But the greatest influence upon Dilly was...

I recently encountered the online magazine Coyote Wild , due to mentions in the journals of people on my flist. The most recent issue had a YA focus and was edited by sartorias , with the help of a reading panel composed of teens. Many of the authors are on LiveJournal. I'm listing all the connections I know, although I'm only giving out RL names if they're listed in the profile, obvious,...