Duck Day 2012 Menu: The Seven Essentials
Duck Day 2012: The Seven Essentials Tradition holds that there are “seven essentials for Chinese life” and that these make for a civilized household...
Category: general blather
I need to hire someone who knows Quark and Lightning Source
I need to hire a freelancer to handle a couple of small book production jobs for me. I need someone who can handle pre-existing Quark Xpress files and the fussy...
Sandy storm update… we're all fine here now. How are you?
The power went out around 2:45 in the afternoon here, amid howling winds that rattled the house. Lost phone and Internet at the same time. NSTAR had an easy to ...
The publishing nitty gritty: all the hoops to self-publish or publish
OK, folks. A lot of people have been asking me for advice in recent years about either how to publish or how to self-publish. In the past year alone I’ve ...
A whole bunch of thoughts on grief and Brian.
So here’s one more post about Brian, the lover of mine who died over the weekend in a motorcycle accident. I actually am not sure I want people to read th...
A story I wrote for my lover who has died. RIP Brian.
Brian and Tai Gau I have no idea what to write here, but I feel I must do something, say something. I learned a short while ago that my long-distance lover and ...
Concert Review- Amanda Palmer & Grand Theft Orchestra at the Middle East 7-31-12
Hey, Generation X, I’ve got news for you. We’re forty-something, guys. This fact was carried home to me tonight upon leaving the fantastic live show...
Stormtrooper Shuffle video
Basically, I just enjoyed this too much not to share it. I know there are other Star Wars parody music vids out there, but I just really liked this one…!
Seeking dominant woman/submissive man artwork…
Help me find cover art for a gorgeous book about a dominant woman and her male submissive! So, Circlet Press will be publishing a book very soon called The Visc...
About my heart (not a romance)
I just realized that when one is 14 and a goth and writing about mortality, nobody gives a flying fig, because what does a 14-year-old know about mortality, no ...