Two short stories done; three started. The one I thought would be the easiest to write has been the most difficult and I’ve set it aside to ferment a bit. The one I was the most excited to write (but thought would be an enormous pain in the ass) was blessedly easy and surprised me with a lovely lenticular twist that…

Funny thing; I’ve been saying for quite a while that The Rook would make a good movie. I seemed to be in a minority of readers who thought that the writing was weak, but it would be a pretty nifty concept in the hands of a competent screenwriter.
Stephenie Meyer was not exactly what I had in mind.

Hrm... I learned how to make people like me. Had some volatile adults around me and others that were just mean and my sense of self-preservation taught me to hone my charm for my safety and that of my younger sibs.

I also learned some basic housebreaking because I was a latchkey kid without a key for a while there and…

Selaginella lepidophylla, maybe?

Dammit. Just watched Deus Ex Machina last night.

I ran into this news release about a study from the University of Louisville Department of Psychiatry awhile back. What I took from it is that there may be an autism spectrum because there is a scale of neural structural differences in the spacing of cortical cell minicolumns. Interestingly, however, the other end of…

It surprised me when I was randomly researching sumptuary laws two nights ago (Esther are you in my brain!?) that they were also often enacted to keep a grip on trade defects, as luxury items were often imported.

My mom. 3/4 of her children developed cinnamon allergies. She fucking puts cinnamon in everything and then offers it to us. I love her, but I’m not entirely convinced she’s not trying to kill me.

You can eat the flower head of Queen Anne’s Lace, too. It’s good raw or really good battered and fried.

Ha — thanks!

They say “berevity is the soul of wit.” Alas, sometimes berevity eludes me.

Well, because no one’s actually got pitchforks, for one. And if there’s a kangaroo hopping about in robes somewhere, I want pics. If there were an actual mob, rather than a hyperbolic one, I’d be more concerned. What we have here, though, is people telling their stories. Their stories implicate that someone who had…

Eh, tilting at the occasional windmill keeps me in shape. Thanks.

Well, I am a lawyer and this line of argument tends to irritate the hell out of me, so why don’t I try to set a few things straight?

What I really need is a one or two-time box to send as a gift to families that just had a kid. Preferably food for parents, but maybe also little baby things. Anyone have any suggestions of something of the sort?

“What color hair does Elizabeth Bennet have? Go.”

“About the only Picard they never made was Risa Bathing Suit Picard.”

If they happened to make that, I know about six people I could buy it for right now.

If this were fiction, I’d be asking more questions about the husband’s sister.

As far as I can remember, Beale’s been miffed at Scalzi in particular since a 2005 incident on Making Light where Scalzi started out actually defending his right to be a Nebula Award juror. It really was the oddest kerfuffle...