We had Sovereign Summer.  Double Trouble rocked the Amazon charts, too.  Now it’s time to help the Mighty Mur Lafferty conquer Amazon with Playing for Keeps.
Mur is one of the biggest reasons I listen to podcasts at all.  I first heard her when she was on Pseudopod, and enjoyed her voice so much I followed […]

I live in the City of the Village, Oklahoma, a fact which amuses me to know end.  Technically, this makes me a villager.  And I always thought that when I moved in, I should have been issued a torch and pitchfork so we could periodically storm windmills or lighthouses or nearby keeps.
Enter Nycteris.  Shortly before […]

I got a much bigger souvenir of my Texas vacation than I had planned.
We drove down to Houston from Oklahoma City a week ago, nine or so hours on the road. That’s about my limit for a day’s solid driving. As it turned out, that was the car’s limit as well. I […]

So the mechanic called this evening while we were at dinner.  He did manage to get the car running again, but the engine still makes a terrible racket and he’s pretty sure there’s significant damage there.  He said it’s ok to drive around town here, but that I should not attempt to drive it back […]

My daughter and I began our vacation trip to Houston this morning.  We started off well enough, though we were running later that I’d have liked.  This was my fault entirely, as I conked out last night before I’d gotten everything ready and packed.  I decided it was much more important for me to be […]

0.7 Bolls

In my effort to watch movies so you don’t have to, I recently rented the festival of Native American stereotypes called Bone Eater.  Hopefully those of you who follow me on Twitter enjoyed reading me life-blogging the viewing.  I plan to do more of that in the future, as the responses I’ve gotten have […]

I have a Netflix account I use for most of my movie viewing at home.  They have a great selection, far larger than I’ve experienced with Blockbuster and the like, and I’ve been really happy with the service they’ve given me.  What’s more, this fall they are joining with Microsoft to let me view my […]

Double Trouble is upon us!
Tomorrow, 08.08.08, is the day that Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine are both releasing their new novels on this auspicious Friday.  Starting at 8:00AM Pacific time, both authors are calling upon their fans to make a run on Amazon to once again show the powers that be the true power of […]

Today’s random wanderings through the internet brought be, as the often do, to a place of joy.  In this case, the joy was a wonderful idea for an alarm clock: the Wake n’ Bacon.  The idea is you’d put a frozen piece of bacon inside before going to bed, set the alarm, and wake to […]

0.999999999 Bolls

We all know the old adage.  There should have been only one.  For many, there was only one, as they refuse to acknowlege any part of the Highlander franchise after the original 1986 movie.  I thought the first sequel (or anything set after the events of the original film for that matter) was a […]