My whole life, people have been afraid of overpopulation. So much so that as recently as five years ago, I was asked to justify why I was willing to do something as terrible to the planet as have a third kid. (More than replacement rate. The assumption was that moral people had two children, or one, or none…
On the subject of Black and White movies and TV: Orville: “I don’t mind black and white. It doesn’t bother me at all.”Juss: “I don’t like black and white.”John: “But what about Gilligan’s Island? The first season was in black and white. You liked that, right?”Juss, sadly, “No, cause they left out the color.”
Behind the cut, the words to I Google You (by Neil Gaiman.) They amused me. I Google youlate at night when I don’t know what to doI find photosyou’ve forgottenyou were input up by your friends I Google youwhen the day is done and everything is throughI read your journalthat you keptthat month in FranceI’ve…
The Cherubim and I went to horseback riding camp again last week. Last year, it consisted of three kids, him and an older boy and girl. This year there were twelve kids, eleven girls and him. Most of the girls were shorter than him. (He’s eight now but tall.) Because so many were shorter,…
(Okay, this isn’t version 4657, but it’s probably version 12 or something. ) For anyone who might be interested, here is the first chapter of the Corruption Campaign novel, as it stands now. I’m not sure what the novel or the series is going to be called. Were it up to me, I’d call the series…
Apparently, taking the Pill makes you more likely to seek out the wrong kind of guy…based on smell. The logic, once you read the article, makes a lot of sense, but….weird! http://www.livescience.com/culture/080812-contraceptive-smell.html
Someone’s giving away two copies of an anthology with a story by John: http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2008/08/giveaway-win-signed-copy-of-mike-allens.html
Bitten By Books just reviewed Bad Ass Faeries Two: Just Plain Bad and my story was one of the few they mentioned. I was so pleased. I’d hoped someone would like it. I prayed a lot before I wrote it. If you follow the link above, you need to page down to see the review. My…
The line “To be or not to be” appeared in an episode of Gilligan’s Island that the children were watching, so Juss wanted to know what it meant. I told him just a little about it, including the fact that Hamlet was a play by Shakespeare, where everyone dies and As You Like It was…
After a year and a half of waiting, (really more, but officially, a year and a half) I finally received the edits for Prospero Lost! This time, it was almost entirely usage issues (language style.) I’ve made all the changes that were requested so far and now only await the responses to questions plus one…