Couple of new links added. I changed the Tamara and Allie link from "T and A" (which is apparently their "official" blog name) to the longer version because I didn't like the way the short link looked on the sidebar. Hope nobody minds. I also added Retroactive Continuity and ireneQ to the list. Woo. (more...)

I am still awake from last night. I haven't slept. Soon, hopefully.

I wonder if it has something to do with that utterly terrifying dream I had the previous night? I have a lot of really weird dreams, but they don't usually continue to scare me after I wake from them -- but that one had me trembling underneath my covers and trying to convince myself that the thing from my dream wasn't still prowling around in my room. It was one of those dreams where you're not really sure you were asleep, so you're not really sure that being awake makes much of a difference -- because you might have been awake before, too. Though I must have been asleep when that thing was there. Right? (more...)

Admittedly, I'm feeling better tonight than I have been in the past few days. Which isn't to say that I'm bubbling over with mirth (I doubt I'd be that joyous even if I sold a story -- still waiting on those rejections from Playboy and Ideomancer...), but I'm not as down as I was this time last night. (more...)

Happy March! Two new pieces -- A Crayon Haiku #6 and a cover review of the December 2003 issue of "O, The Oprah Magazine". Hopefully it's the last time you'll see Oprah on the site. I wish it were the last time any of us saw her ever, but that's not bloody likely at all. (more...)

In hindsight, I'm thinking I should've called that last post "mein kampf". 🙂

Wendy writes some of her thoughts on "race" in response to my previous post (click there or scroll down, as necessary), so read those first if you haven't already. While hopefully this post would be an interesting and illuminating solo read, I write it with intent to clarify the views I put forward in last night's offering. It seems that I've already been misunderstood in one instance, so I'm worried that the anecdotal elements confound my point (which is often the case with arguments). Hence the clarificatory entry. (more...)