Well, we’ve got a few hours yet, but we’ll grandfather any significant events into the new year, should they happen to occur. 2012 was a great year for me. Obviously the Hugo sort of blew it out the water, so it’ll probably go down among the best years of my life for that alone. But […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Ran across this passage by Beverley Nichols and had to share for my writer friends, since this is pretty much how I feel all the time. Money….not very much, but better than it’s ever been before. Probably it will all be taken away from me, or will be worth nothing, just when I have written […]
Just a note to let y’all know that print orders put in between now and the end of the year will ship after January 2nd. I have family coming into town and require some serious downtime. Hope you all have a wonderful fabulous holiday of whatever variety you celebrate, whether it’s with scads of family […]
I’ll be honest with you—I love this one. It’s very short compared to some of the drawn-out sagas we’ve seen and never once devolves into East of the Sun, West of the Moon, which is sort of the go-to fairy tale for dragging things out. So this’ll be a quick little afternoon amusement instead of […]
It is now officially past the I-can-guarantee-your-prints-will-arrive-by-Christmas point. I will do my best, but from here on out, you are at the mercy of the US Postal service.
Bob the hamster was pleased with his new Christmas tree. It didn’t drop needles, it wasn’t a fire hazard, and it didn’t look fake like all those cheap plastic ones. It did wander off occasionally, but it always came back when he filled the food dish. I am feeling in a surprisingly Christmassy mood, so […]
Had a complicated dream last night that involved me going through a portal in a painting painted black (by using a rock with the Biting Pear painting on it!) turning into a fox, spotting a pair of unicorns (because only animals can see unicorns, which are apparently wandering around the city most of the time) […]
So yesterday marked the ten year anniversary of this blog. This one. Right here. Ten years ago, I said “What the heck—nobody’s gonna read it, but might as well.” Christ, that’s a long time. In that ten years, I moved—eight times, I think? I have traveled more places than I can easily count, driven across […]
Would you believe that it was July when I last did one of these? Man. Time flies. Or maybe I just haven’t had insomnia nearly enough. This is a Finnish folktale, sent in by an Alert Reader, who said I had to read it and was so very, very right. It’s from a website called […]