I'm getting a slow start to my Saturday, with sluggishness pumping through my veins. I've got a nascent idea for my LJ Idol entry on that theme. In the meantime... * Happy birthday to me favourite hearty redbearded audiophiliac rapscallion wyldemusick . * Welcomes to new Gentle Readers darkprism and debrafortune . * Yesterday's drive into southeastern MA was absolutely...

Today's Sparkly Paddle of Birthday Wonderfulness goes into action for wyldemusick . It's your day, hon--hope it's made purely of shiny, awesome, and win, and that the coming year brings you only the finest kinds of finest things, all thrillah and no fillah everywhere you go, with whipped cream, sparkles, and extra kittens! And--this part is mandatory!--don't forget to live forever!

3:50 video So I had to post this. First, wyldemusick posts it - Its really well done and I thought Scarlett looked like Julianne Moore. But it was Shipwreck's expression that kept nagging at me. I KNOW that expression! But my 12-hour day yesterday, and subsequent dreamless 10-hour sleep erased everything from my mind. Then it shows up on wyldemusick 's Twitter and I watch...

wyldemusick just gave me the ten cent tour of the latest happenings in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN since Straczynski's departure from that title, and all I have to say is: wtf?? As I said in my reply coments, I actually find myself feeling mildly depressed. I was on-line ridiculously early this morning and so read wyldemusick 's comment while my family busied themselves with the business of...

Watching shingles drift up to the roof - however guided by man made machine, and carefully and safely bundled - is always a bit disorienting. On a related note, I may be out for most of tomorrow since that's the day tentatively scheduled for nailing the shingles into the roof, something I don't exactly care to be present for. (The dumping of shingles on the roof is loud enough). They have been moving...

Last night I got the call from Peter David to do my contribution to the ongoing serial Twilight parody Potato Moon , and so I done went and writed it. Apparently, I'm the fastest of the 29 contributors thus far, having turned it around in two hours and three minutes. If you haven't been following Potato Moon , you owe it to yourself to do so. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss all conception...

Whatever happened to nice simple murders with guns?" Thanks to wyldemusick for the link.

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Seriously, it is a fine, fine day. I shall make it so. * It's snowing, yes, but I have reason to be inside today for phone calls and paperwork. * Welcome to new Gentle Readers starmalachite , thorninthefoot and jenwrites ! * My thanks to those who've piped up with support for The Body Project . Bodytalk posts will be up on Saturday mornings, and will have notes from the...

As part of my book tour for I Remember the Future , I've had two recent audio appearances. First of all, I'm the guest on this week's episode of The Chronic Rift podcast. If you haven't heard The Chronic Rift before, and you're interested in science fiction and related topics, you ought to give it a listen. To paraphrase their own description, the podcast is based on the New York public access...