Here’s how yesterday played out: I woke up early and played some World of Warcraft. It was fun. Really fun. I sensed within myself the desire to do nothing but play WoW all day, writing goals be damned. Quickly, I opened my journal and wrote yesterday’s entry. Then I went back to playing my new [...]
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Apr 27, 2008
|Above World, Inspiration, Writing
I have a lot of writing to do today, and I could use a little peer support and a lotta peer pressure. Here’s where I’m at: Chapter 21 of Above World, 153 words in. Where I want to be: At the end of Chapter 21, or even better, at the end of the book Anyone [...]
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Apr 25, 2008
|Movies, Music, TV Shows, Tech Stuff
I’ve been streaming radio stations through iTunes at work, bopping between classical and folk and Beatles and NPR. But yesterday I discovered my new favorite: StreamingSoundtracks.com! Some of the choice pieces I’ve heard since tuning in have been from: Totoro Battlestar Galactica (new) World of Warcraft (Lament of the Highborn!) Pirates of the Carribean Hero [...]
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Apr 25, 2008
|Cosmic Toast, Inspiration
From Wired, “Solo Animator’s ‘Sita Sings the Blues’ Makes Tribeca Film Festival.” They say: Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues…tells two parallel stories: the ancient Hindu epic the Ramayana and the breakup of Paley’s 21st-century marriage. It does so through four distinct styles of animation, a “greek chorus” of Indonesian shadow puppets and wildly imaginative [...]
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Apr 24, 2008
|Tech Stuff
I heard about Twitter a few months ago, but despite being an early adopter, I didn’t check it out. Here’s Wikipedia’s definition: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. [...]
Read More ...My original Tales of the Chinese Zodiac appeared on Strange Horizons and, unsurprisingly, covered the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. When the stories were collected into a chapbook by Tropism Press, we added three new tales: Owl, Carp, and Mantis. This is the story that didn’t make the cut, printed here for the first [...]
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Apr 23, 2008
|TV Shows
If you’re a geek or a geek-sympathizer, you might want to check out a new sitcom on CBS called The Big Bang Theory. I’m no fan of sitcoms, but I really like this one. The show centers around two physics geeks, Leonard and Sheldon, their two nerdy friends, and their new neighbor who happens to [...]
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Apr 22, 2008
|Jade Tiger
Because I could not bear the thought of the excess JADE TIGER stock heading to the garbage, I am now the proud owner of more copies of my book than I could ever want or need. Yes. That is an entire pallet of boxes containing JADE TIGER. Marvel at its glory! So now, here’s what [...]
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Apr 21, 2008
|Martial Arts
Tonight in kung fu class, I paid the price for my spotty attendance over the last two months. Here’s how the class went: Salute in. Horse set number 4 to warm-up. Long arm drills with daggers. (x2) Elephant Hand set with daggers. (x8) Animal set one. (x3) Animal set two — the one we’re working [...]
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Apr 21, 2008
|Inspiration
I don’t know much about car racing. (Well, that’s not entirely true… I don’t know anything about car racing.) Still, it’s hard not to get excited that, for the first time, a woman has won an Indy car race. Read about Danica Patrick. I was a bit disappointed that an image search on Ms. Patrick [...]
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