Super Mobility

The world continues to whirl on at maddening new speeds. As Paul Virilio wrote in The Art of the Motor, ”Required to locate himself beyond screens that have vanished, in an artificial world peopled by imperative signals, the man of tomorrow will not for long be able to escape an envirinmental control that will dog [...]

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The Midpoint of a Nebula

Rachel Bernstein and I have made it to the midpoint of NaNoWriMo.  While we have not actually made it yet to the midway in word count, the golden 25,000 words, we are not far behind and I am confident that we will make it within the weekend.  Much has transpired through the course of this [...]

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Fear and Fascination

NaNoWriMo is so quickly approaching and, at the same time, can’t seem to come fast enough… it’s a conundrum, I know, but here’s how it happened: I am so afraid I’ll fail at this that I can’t stop planning.  I’ve done everything next to actually writing the thing (again, the thing here is my novel [...]

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Your Teeth Form a Ladder Up to Your Mouth

Finding your top played tracks in iTunes seems to be a really fun game this week and how could I not want to play along?  Trouble is, I share my computer and my iTunes with the moondoggy.  So, as you might imagine, many of the top tracks are actually his selections.  Not that I’m truly [...]

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Lipsmackers: Our Delicious Pop Culture Picks (Vol. 1, Sept. 2008)

When I was a kid, no slumber party was ever complete without a caboodle or two containing a multitude of candy-flavored Lipsmackers!  For, after all, no slumber party makeover would ever be complete without glossy Lipsmackers lips.  In the spirit of hosting a virtual slumber party, I will post here each month my favorite “flavors” [...]

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