I’ve long heard it said that prairie boys make excellent sailors. I don’t know for certain that that’s true, but what I can say, after seeing Prairie Salt at the MacKenzie Art Gallery Saturday night, is that at least one prairie boy has made an excellent musical about sailing. Prairie Salt was written and produced …
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Writing Diary: July 13, 2004
I got in a good 75 minutes or so on Excalibur Reforged today. Sample section: Icy salt water. Gray sky. Tossing waves stretching to the indistinct horizon, lost in haze or distant rain or snow. A shore as barren as images from the surface of Mars. A hand gripping hers, pulling her down… “Let go!” …
Save a tree, read online
It appears that reading newspapers online is far more environmentally friendly than reading the dead-tree version.
Blue moons
Have you ever wondered why we consider “once in a blue moon” to be the epitome of rare occurrence? This is a good time to ask, because July 2004 is one of those rare months when there are two full moons: one on July 2, and a second on July 31. According to folklore, the …
Blue moons
Have you ever wondered why we consider “once in a blue moon” to be the epitome of rare occurrence? This is a good time to ask, because July 2004 is one of those rare months when there are two full moons: one on July 2, and a second on July 31. According to folklore, the …
Writing Diary: July 12, 2004
Today was column day, so I devoted a good chunk of time to researching and writing 1,300 words on blue moons, and the curious fact that the folklore more and more people will confidently tell you applies to blue moons, namely, that a blue moon is what you call the occasional appearance of a second …
Texas telescope finds first extrasolar planet…
…and it’s a giant, of course. The planet, that is. But then, so is the ‘scope. As befits things Texan. (Which is what I used to be–Texan, that is. Also giant. Until I lost weight.) I think this post is getting out of hand…
Canadian satellite launch delayed
Well! A Canadian satellite was scheduled for launch today, and I didn’t even know about it until it didn’t happen.
Reading Diary: July 9, 2004
I read a bit more in Red Thunder this week, but then got sidetracked by the newest issue of Locus Magazine, to which I devoted most of my morning-coffee-break-and-reading-time. My wife and I finished The Subtle Knife last knight and will be moving on to The Amber Spyglass. I read The Subtle Knife when it …
Writing Diary: July 9, 2004
I got in a good chunk of time on Excalibur Reforged yesterday, adding another Wally scene and rewriting part of an existing scene. I also had to clean up Chapter 1; it suddenly occurred to me yesterday, in one of those “D’oh!” moments, that the first time I wrote about Wally in the first draft …
Another reason to be glad I lost weight
This story makes me doubly glad my wife and I worked together to lose weight (30 pounds in her case, 50 in mine): it makes it less likely our daughter will have to battle as much bulging.
BlogSpot ads
I know, I know, every BlogSpot blogger blogs about it, but I got a kick out of the ads that have been appearing at the top of this page ever since I posted the column about where people think germs lurk: “Top Quality Toilet Seat: Toilet seat factory in Canton China Top Quality, Reasonable Price” …
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