From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Tuesday: Random drive-by

March 31, 2009

A plate of work is kicking my ass at the moment.
But the need to do must trump the desire to reflect.
I’ll be back to omphaloskepsize as soon as I can.

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Thinking big, thinking bi.

March 27, 2009

Part of what I do for a—I use this word with quotes so loud they ring—”living” is fix typos. On the whole, most typos won’t set your loins a-tingle, but every now and then one comes along that just makes a person smile.
Today’s typo of cheer comes from a “big“-thinking author posting on Twitter about [...]

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Stupid is as stupid does. Ish.

March 26, 2009

Life and work and writing have forced me to pause on the breast beatings about my mom and the continuation of the story of the story that I’m working on—but something I read this morning has prompted me to interrupt for a sidebar.
Every now and then I check in at Alyson B. Stanfield’s Art Biz [...]

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Sometimes you can’t jump; sometimes you need to be pushed

March 18, 2009

You know, I had a whole post ready to go up on Thursday morning. This was going to be the first time that I would get a second post up in a week as scheduled. I had been compelled by an email from a friend and a fortuitous web of link-following to write that post. [...]

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Foresight; or, How not to choose a username

March 16, 2009

name |nām|
noun
a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to
• someone or something regarded as existing merely as a word and lacking substance or reality
A name is a powerful tool. To name a thing is to identify it, and to choose a name is [...]

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Fandom, Dead Bands, & Reunion Tours

March 10, 2009

A couple of years ago, I joined a fan forum.
I had never joined a fan forum before. In truth, I had never done anything properly “fannish” before at all. Like most people, I have been a fan of things—bands, writers, poets, products. I live in a Mac household; I own multiple copies of Leaves of [...]

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The hot new technology called Book

March 9, 2009

I am loving today’s Penny Arcade:

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The Book: Once upon a time…

March 8, 2009

Months ago I decided to sit down and chronicle the story of a most extraordinary project that has occupied my last couple of years. I really should have launched this blog at the beginning in order to capture the whole writing process, but then I really should have launched this blog at the beginning of [...]

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“This morning feels like yesterday / Yesterday follows me around…”

March 2, 2009

February. That month between January and March. Some people call it the armpit of winter; I’m calling it The Interregnum as I’m pretty sure that I wasn’t present for most of it.
But jury duty is finally over, and my brain is mostly functional again; so while I try to catch up on work and disentangle [...]

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