Galactic Suburbia and freelance award design
My inaugural Galactic Suburbia Award arrived in the mail yesterday. It came wrapped in a lovely red and black ribbon: I unwrapped…
Read moreMonth: March 2012
Orange Prize 2012 longlist
To coincide with International Women’s Day, the judges of the this year’s Orange Prize (the UK’s only annual book award for fiction…
Read moreConnectivity problems
Today was going to be a photo post–of, well, dolls. But thanks (uh-huh) to Comcast, my upload and download rates have dropped…
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As my jet lag recedes and my brain returns I’m beginning to catch up on reading. Over the weekend I encountered Alison…
Read moreGame of Simpsons…
http://img.filmsactu.net/images/swf/embed2.swf?v=53 The opening of The Simpsons last night parodied Game of Thrones. I love to watch people play… (Via JeaxActu.com and Galleycat)
Read moreIf I owe you email
Being away from my desk for over two weeks means I have a river of detail, business, and work to deal with….
Read moreBeer is good
Robot ping-pong, robot music
Jet lag means I’m doing nothing but roam around the kitchen munching on random food items, then folding in a heap thinking…
Read moreI’m teaching a one-day writing workshop in April
I’m teaching a one-day writing workshop for Clarion West here in Seattle on Sunday, April 15th. I don’t teach very often, but…
Read moreBack from the UK
Blurry because, well, we’d all been drinking… It’s a little after noon here in Seattle and a brilliantly sunny day. Which is…
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