Hurricane has largely missed us…
So yesterday the rain started exactly at 2pm, when the first of the very outer bands of Hurricane Irene reached us. Around 3pm was the worst, when it was so dar...
Category: general blather
Coffee/Tea Shops for Writers in Iceland
(This was intended for posting at teawritings.com, but unfortunately my URL registration lapsed and someone is squatting it now. So I’m posting it here.) ...
More from Iceland! (finally posted)
More from Iceland! (OK, I thought I’d have a chance to post this from the airport, but I didn’t, and now i’ve been home for a week and I’...
Iceland So Far…
I arrived in Iceland yesterday at about 3pm local time. Ours was the only flight arriving at that time so they whisked us through passport control. 40 minutes l...
Rainy But Not Blue
Well, that was different. From yesterday anyway. The result, however, was the same: a win. Today instead of the game taking place on a hot, muggy night, it was ...
Summertime Laugh(t)er
Last night, as corwin and I lay in bed trying to get to sleep after a long drive to NYC through thunderstorms and another horrendous loss to the Red Sox, I said...
New fund drive, help crowdfund my fiction.
So I started a crowdfunding drive over at Daron’s Guitar Chronicles a few weeks back, but I’m going to change the focus a bit starting today and mak...
Bishonen MP3
If you are not familiar with Momus, you might want to be. Momus was Jarvis Cocker before Jarvis Cocker, basically. He’s recently got fed up with how his o...
Articles on the SABR Era of baseball wanted (1971-present)
So, some of you may have seen via the SABR newsletters and my other social media things, that I’m editing the Fall 2011 issue of the Baseball Research Jou...
Herb Dinner Rolls (with Guinness)
Tonight I Iron-Chef-ed it. it’s St. Patrick’s Day, so I bought some Guinness stout on the way home and used it as the secret ingredient in every cou...