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9.25.15 ‘I am afraid I must step aside’
Eddie Redmayne remains a baffling Oscar superstar, and what it’s like to have a lead-lined pillow whomp you upside the head on a Friday afternoon.
Read More9.8.15 “Nepotism is as common as oxygen.”
What happens when you mix a birthday with a puppy rescue and a poetry writer who goes undercover to get published.
Read More8.31.15 “That is your real name, is it? Not just advertising?”
Monty Python, President Obama meets Bear Grylls, and a thought on why being a woman on campus is so difficult these days.
Read More8.27.15 “All of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
Specific and unsundry links, meanderings and etc. from the day. Plus, kids taste dark chocolate for the first time!
Read More8.26.15 “It’s nice to look down and see a new piece of jewelry on my finger”
Current wanderings in my brain, links, and photos. Come on in.
Read MoreArisia 2015: My schedule, and how I’ll defy both time and space while there
Coming to Arisia 2015? Here’s where you’ll find me, hoping to be in two places at once….
Read MoreHappy 80th to Harlan Ellison, who has a knock-knock joke for you
Harlan Ellison, that irascible love-him or hate-him genius of speculative fiction, lawsuits and storytelling, turns 80 today. While covering the South by Southwest Festival in 2008, I got a chance to talk with him in person (there's a video I'll turn up one of these days), and before that, on the phone. Here's just the…
Read MoreWhy I will not be killing my treadmill desk
It happened today. I sat down in my elevated desk chair, in front of my elevated desk (probably about four, four and a half feet off the floor) and pulled out my retractable keyboard rest and began working at my computer. And I thought, "Now this is what I wanted." Getting here has taken time.…
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