Em’s pointed out, correctly, that this blog is pretty dull. I thought about that before I put it up… I don’t think I ever had any fantasies about it being non-dull. In fact, I could have “been blogging since WAY before it became cool, man”, since I had the mad skillz, but I just didn’t [...]

I probably won’t be at Worldcon this year, even though it *is* in Toronto (how often does that happen?), and Arnon has firmly insisted that I make the trip. But I thought of Arnon when I was at Powell’s City of Books in Portland. Of course, there’s a SF&F section there, and of course it’s [...]

The usual craziness. I have GOT to be able to post with greater frequency, AND get some pictures in the gallery. Sigh. But you know how it is (don’t you?) – spend the weekend at a wedding in Sebastopol, then dinner with friends on Monday, movie (28 Days Later) with friends on Tuesday, taxes (don’t [...]

I forgot to mention that while Em and I were trying to figure out where to go in Portland, we were working mostly from an e-mail that Re’s friend sent us – I wish I knew his name (offhand) to thank him, but it escapes me at the moment. It was an incredibly long, detailed, [...]