Monthly Archives: April 2009

Today I go in for a pap smear. Words cannot express my excitement. ("Close your eyes and think of England!" a friend of mine advised. Let me say for the record that I’m getting awfully suspicious of all the time England seems to spend associated with my crotch! Seriously, England, I like your accent, but […]

Slice of Disturbing Life, Offered Without Comment

URSULA: So! You want to watch a movie, or are you gonna work on something?DRUNKEN KEVIN: I’m gonna work on the website. I’m kinda feeling it…U: Cool.DK: I’m so feeling it.U: Okay.DK: I’m feeling it up! I’m feeling it down!U: Um.DK: I’m getting a hand up in there and grabbing hold!U: …I’ll be in the studio.DK (yelling down the hall after fleeing Ursula) I will be fisting […]

Oh! Also! The thing I was going to mention and forgot! I have a book signing tonight at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. Actually, I and another author will be addressing a group called "The View From Tuesday" which is a sort of book club about what’s going on in children’s literature at the moment, mostly with teachers […]

My days of post-book R&R are finished…time to get to work on Book 3. Fortunately, it’s already approaching the neighborhood of halfway done, and writing is less grueling for me than art–I can get in a groove and knock out a quarter of the book in an afternoon (these are SHORT books.) whereas even my best grooves […]

Crazy busy weekend, cleaning like mad, family stuff with Kevin’s relatives, meeting with Clatch tomorrow, but I am equal to the challenge! The amount of energy I suddenly have now that Ninjabreath is done is astonishing. I’ve spent the week cleaning the deck and yard, finally getting all my plants in the ground, (Kevin now has a kitchen […]

Is That A Sweeper Tentacle In Your Polyp, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

More fun with the tank! Another micro-brittle star came in on a frag yesterday, which I discovered while acclimating everybody. This led to two interesting lessons learned–A) a brittle star can MOVE (seriously, you don’t think of starfish as speed demons, but that thing could haul pentacular ass) and B) the grip of a panicked brittle […]