have you pushed in your pin?
11/30/2005
Frappr!:
Just an excuse to let my readers stick a pin in the map and see where the others are
Three readers so far . . .
Monthly Archive November, 2005
thoughts on food and values
11/29/2005
So I thought some more on this and realized one thing I find curious about folks who profess they “eat anything.” From my reading of Pellegrini’s book, I know in my own history there were lots of animals and animal parts I didn’t eat, when I “ate everything.” But calf liver was on the menu, [...]
on the merits of getting started
Crooked Timber » » Advice to Authors:
Here is one of the many footnotes from Susanna Clarke’s novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, which Henry reviewed recently:
Horace Tott spent an uneventful life in Cheshire always intending to write a large book on English magic, but never quite beginning. And so he died at [...]
[sigh]
Pimp my 24″ Dell widescreen monitor:
I hear a lot of people say, “I don’t watch TV — I only watch DVDs of movies and TV shows.” To me, that’s kind of like saying, “I’m a vegetarian, but I eat chicken” — something I’ve heard more than once. Ahem.
OK, when I think of television, I think [...]
crossed the tape
11/28/2005
Dear Novelist,
You did it.
Despite everything else going on in your busy life, you managed to pull off the creative coup of writing a 50,000-word novel in just one month.
When the going got tough, you got typing, and in four weeks, you built vast worlds and set them in motion. You created characters; quirky, interesting, passionate [...]
almost there
11/26/2005
National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo Wordcount:
Your current Word Count is 46015.
Once the fog clears, I may know what this thing is all about.
is it harder to bomb someone when you see their faces?
Don’t Bomb Us - A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers:
We are not afraid of your threats - we are journalists. And there thousands like us around the world. You may be able to kill some of us - but you will never kill us all.
in which we are present at the Creation
Fanatical Apathy - Designing Women. And Men.:
As the old joke goes, God must have been a civil engineer, because only a civil engineer would run waste disposal pipes through a recreational area.
Click through to read the piece this comment refers to. It’s way funny.
Attention shoppers
11/25/2005
Early preview: Holiday Mix 2005
A lot of this has been used before, but isn’t that what tradition is all about?
I have little time to hunt any new stuff: enjoy what you can of it.
