Dream
I had a dream last night that Yellow had converted to Islam. I asked him, “What’s the worst part about being a Muslim?” And he said, “I keep hitting my head all the time.” That’s what I get for working on God’s War right before bed.
Why Dan Brown’s Writing is Really Bad
Really, really bad. (via mumpsimus)
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Why is it I Still Get So Excited When I See That Someone’s Going to Do a Radio Show "Aimed at Women?"
Because it’s the same old story. Whoopi Goldberg will be doing a radio show “for women”, but: Her voice will be “lighter” than the current crop of predominantly male morning DJs, she says. “I want to have fun.” It’s almost like she’s afraid of causing controversy. Her topics will include: banter on American Idol or
The One Good Thing About Spending Every Week In Indy…
Is that after awhile, you get into a routine. Stay at the same hotel. Walk the 1/3 of a mile to the little restaurant complex, choose the Mexican place, the Sports Bar, the Cafe, or the sandwich shop. Stop into Starbucks, perhaps. Walk to the grocery store to pick up bottled water and the next
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The Writing Life
Kidnapping scene, trade off, cutting off Raine’s ear, big boxing climax scene (you know I’ve been dying to use that phrase), wrap up. And then I’ll have a draft of God’s War!! More or less.
Spring is Arrived!
Jenn and I were lying in bed the other night, reading. The window was open, the room was cool; it was a lovely spring night. I’d gotten some writing done; she’d been working diligently all week on a bunch of psych studies for her doctoral thesis. I turned to her and said, “It’s nice to
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So *That’s* What That Thing Is
The Indianapolis Airport has one of those GE “puffer” machines. It’s not neccessarily used in secondary security screenings as happened to this woman – I’ve been through it the last two times I headed back to Chicago. It was the shortest line, so I stepped into it. Here’s what it is: GE Ion Track’s revolutionary
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Haircut
I had a first-generation Ukrainian cut my hair yesterday (I work with a ton of first-generation Ukrainians at work – Yellow is 2nd generation Ukrainian – so I’m pretty good at pegging the accent. Sadly, I don’t know any Ukrainian words however), and I think there may have been a bit of a language barrier