Happy new year! I have not been posting a lot, for a Really Good Reason: finishing work on the werewolf novel. The current title is Waking up Naked in Strange Places, and I can’t decide if it’s different and groovy and catchy or just too weird and long, so IContinue Reading
Genre definition 1Genre is descriptive, a characteristic of a work. A work can belong to more than one genre. It’s a romance. It’s science fiction. It’s a comedy. It’s horror. It’s fantasy. It’s a mystery. It’s a history. It’s a tragedy. It’s a romantic comedy. It’s science fiction horror tragedy.Continue Reading
Drinking heavily on election night has become one of my personal traditions. That means, no matter what happens, I’m hungover the next day. It just seems… appropriate. So, I brainstorm a path to a more positive future, because otherwise the only thing in my head is my burning desire toContinue Reading
I find it weird that Dino Rossi ends up looking like such a tool even in his own ads. But I’m worried. I don’t have a television, really, so I only see TV in bars and gyms. And I keep seeing his stupid ads, and generic anti-Democrat ads, and itContinue Reading
I am on the following panels: Tense Viewpoint – Friday 3pm Killing Off Characters – Friday 4pm Strong In Body, Stronger In Mind – Friday 5pm Good Villains – Saturday Noon Buffy vs Edward; What Would Dracula Think? – Saturday 5pm Religion In Fantasy And Science Fiction – Sunday 10amContinue Reading
On September 1, 2010, Paul and I will officially cease being residents of 1319 Indian Street, after being there since 1993. That’s seventeen years. At that same time, we will cease being residents of Bellingham altogether. Twenty years for me, longer for Paul. In honor of this, on August 28,Continue Reading
Monday, sixish, here: http://www.casuelitasrestaurant.com/ If you want to go, let me know for headcount.Continue Reading
Because I wrote this: Games are not a narrative art form people keep referring me to this: Roger Ebert: Video games can never be art To reiterate my argument from two years ago: although video games have some storytelling aspects (worldbuilding, etc.) they are not really a narrative art formContinue Reading
I’m participating in the Clarion West write-a-thon this year. If you would like to support me, I suggest donations, as usual, in extremely lucky multiples of thirteen dollars.Continue Reading
But this morning I’m so… tired… I googled “evelyn evelyn” so that I could post future tour dates: http://www.evelynevelyn.com/news.html Google provided me “controversy” as a possible — what would you call that? Phrase completer? Anyway, so that’s how I found out there is a controversy. I guess. http://community.feministing.com/2010/02/evelyn-evelyn-fandom-and-joke.html On theContinue Reading
Showbox at the Market tonight: http://www.showboxonline.com/market/eventdetail.php?id=26985 I am going and hope to run into Seattle people there. Actually, I’m hoping to run into Seattle goth community people who I haven’t seen since the Sisters of Mercy concert, but I dunno how likely that is. And if I’m alllll alllloooone that’sContinue Reading
How ‘The Karate Kid’ ruined the modern world (by introducing the concept of the training montage) So, people bail on diets. Not just because they’re harder than they expected, but because they’re so much harder it seems unfair, almost criminally unjust. You can’t shake the bitter thought that, "This amountContinue Reading