Friday, May 9, 2008
Time to organize
Now that I've got a good start on bookmark blurbs by Bloggers, I've got to get my art stuff organized. I'm 90% done with Geoffrey Pringle -- only a few leg spots to go and it's time for the final coating of poly... He's cute and big and looks floppy. Used to date a guy like that. Wonder whatever...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Bookmark Blurbs By Bloggers...
From time to time I doodle. It's a boring meeting, more of the same old same-o. Or someone's using my ears to recount all the gory details of some oft repeated tale of woe. Or I'm focused on the latest episode of "Lost" and my pen wanders on a small strip of scrap paper. It's part of the recycling...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Family, they're animals!
Inky was a miniature Doberman, tipped the scales at three pounds, thought she was a lion. She daintily picked her way through tracks in the snow behind my little brother JJ as he dragged a sled up Ivy's hill for a fast run down. Then she'd sit in his lap, grinning all the way down. As a young pup...
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Monday, May 5, 2008
Kitty by the fish pond
Miss Kitty lived to be seventeen, a ripe old age for a cat. She was, as cats are, enigmatic. She was mostly gray with a white face, striped in the center and up to a point between the ears - white paws and forelegs - perfect model for the commercials. Katt was a fierce protector, once took a large...
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Here's where I get a bit, well, bitchy...
I'm really nose-out-of-joint ticked off and disappointed. I'm reading this magazine, a monthly fantasy and sci fi pulp mag. Let's not name names. I'm a fan of science fiction, and I keep telling anyone who'll listen that it's not crap. It's actual literature. There's everything in it you expect from...
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Friday, May 2, 2008
Book Review: Science Fiction...
I'm reading Return to Mars by Ben Bova. It's research. I'm looking into what sells in the Sci-Fi marketplace, and Ben Bova's an author who's won Hugo awards, his short stories appear in Analog Science Fiction and Fact (and others, I'm sure.) Not to brag on my own writing, but Ben Bova and his...
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Walking Wounded
Being young and inexperienced can be a disadvantage in this world. There are folks who prey on innocence. I detest them. I worry about how my young grandkids will respond to wrong bosses, wrong "friends" and how they will recover from exposure to someone who abuses their trust. It's not a question...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Whoops! You might want to think about that...
Sometimes I get tired of talking to myself. I mean, myself is pretty good about consoling me when I'm blue and all, but sometimes an old gal needs to hear someone else's perspective. So I was talking to my ex -- let's call him Lee. Lee and I've been divorced for 27 years, and he'd been married to...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Excerpt from my NaNo story - Waltzing With Zombies
Since Jake’s major was communications, he was not only required to take reporting and marketing classes, he also needed advanced computer skills. To put it mildly, the tech stuff was a struggle. IT, Wi-Fi, HTML, he got those at surface level, but there were hundreds of acronyms and shortcuts in the...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Elliott --
He was just about seventeen when he finished his first sci fi novel -- a thoughtful "triumph over adversity" story about robots evolving into sentient beings, asking politely for recognition, and finally uniting for a revolution against cruel human masters. There was a movie in Elliott's story -- an...
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