- Did I mention I got an extension on my packet deadline to next Tuesday evening? So yeah, that’s why the sparseness. However, expect to be flooded like nobody’s business at the end of next week, when I am driven crazy by my needy animules and running the household solo while Christopher is off rompily critiquing at Syc Hill in the mountains of North Carolina. Although I am already making secret plans to go see the Pirates movie, and then Waitress to cleanse my brain of it. I’m also planning to clean out the closet — look out, world!
- Colleen read Always, and she got it and loved it. Yay. This is the best part of writing about books on the Web. It makes me happy. I must confess that I couldn’t wait and have been reading the Griffith memoir and experiencing the fabulous box all week, so a post on that soon. It is The Coolest Thing Ever.
- Teddy Bear military robot! So, someone in DoD saw the movie version of Screamers too, huh? (But, at least this robot looks like an actual robot and not like a vacuum cleaner; I prefer my robots humanoid and science fictional, unlike SOME PEOPLE.) (Via Ysabeau.)
- "My Book Deal Ruined My Life." Then, please, by all means throw your obnoxious selves off a bridge or something. Also, whoever had the idea for this story, please follow suit.
- J.L. Bell condenses the kids’ take on BEA.
- Do a good deed if you have extra scratch; help out Michelle at Scholar’s Blog, who just got downsized.
- We all know what happens if a butterfly flaps its wings on the other side of the world or Ando gets killed, but what if you disappear Paris Hilton from the Internerd?
- The immortalized death throes of dinos. (Via Eat Our Brains.)
- Patrick Brown’s wife Edan Lepucki posts over at The Millions about the Oprah vs. McCarthy nonevent interview, and hers is pretty much the only take I’ve seen that mentions the uber-creepy moment early on when Oprah ventured into serious territory about the lack of women in his fiction and he basically shrugged it off. See also: Jennifer Weiner’s take.
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I feel you. Heather leaves Saturday for the Blue Heaven workshop, and I’ll be all alone in Oakland. Plus, she told me I can’t go see Pirates without her (unless I’m willing to see it twice, which I suspect I am not willing to do). I expect to drink a lot and write a lot over the next week…
Hey Gwenda:
Thanks for the mention of Michele’s fund. I really appreciate it!
The teddy bear robot would scare the hell out of me if I were a soldier, it is just freaky!