Sometimes, I just can’t think up anything to do. But I’m still bored. So I tell the humans. They usually ignore me the first few times. It’s almost like a game. Or else they think I’ll just stop being bored…
Year: 2009
Stray humans are not welcome.
I don’t like having people invade my home at the best of times. At least when my humans let them in, I know that they had to meet some sort of criteria for admittance. Even if one of the new…
Putting the ON in Clarion
I just submitted my application for the 2009 Clarion workshop at UCSD, with a whole ten minutes to spare. (In case you’re curious, the two stories I submitted were expanded versions of the 512 Words or Fewer pieces “Prisoner” and…
February Readings
This was a good month’s reading. Five of the stories still ambush me while I’m petting the cats, taking a shower, making dinner, or at other, equally unexpected, times. Here are the books I read in February: The Hunger Games…
Friday Flash Fiction: “The More Things Change”
Time travel is always tricky, as everyone on Lost now knows. But if it’s possible, we’re going to figure it out by using science and technology like Daniel Faraday, not with mystical bullshit like, well, every other uncurious motherfucker on…
TV Unplugged
Having watched the Academy Awards on Sunday over the air–for free, with a $15 UHF antenna–and having read Saturday’s Consumerist post about How To Cancel Cable Without Losing Your Favorite Shows, I felt it was a good time to review…
DIY Oscar Party Kit
Every year, D and I host an Academy Awards viewing party at our home, and we amassed a bit of a following in the bay area over the last decade. Now that we’ve moved away, our friends Ken & Jerry…
Friday Flash Fiction: “What You Should Know About Water Rites”
Fun fact: The title of this week’s story is the same length as 1.4% of the story itself. Also, the first draft was about three times longer and included a lot of rambling about politics and homelessness. So much for…
My new favorite web site: MoviePosterDB.com
I found this site in the process of updating my trivia slides for this year’s Oscar Party, and am now wasting a whole lot of time browsing through the designs for different countries. It’s fun to see what kind of…