Lesson learned from the Halloween party: don’t trust someone else’s taste in music when it goes against your own instincts. And never ever let them screw around with the DJ controls.…
Monthly Archives: October 2005
I’m #1
For the first time, a Google search for my name actually gives one of my sites as the number one result. Now is it time to maintain my pagerank or go back into hiding?…
Mostly fiction
I gave a fiction reading at the college tonight. A surprisingly large crowd and lively Q&A. And nearly every member of the English Department attended—I guess we’re not in Missouri any more……
World enough and time
Is it possible to get everything done and still have time to play? Maybe so……
The nano next door
So the neighbor received an Ipod and now you want one too? If you must buy one, get one through here and give me some affiliate kickback, okay?…
Just enough to be dangerous
Terrible side-effect of having attended Southeast Asia institute: you wait around for opportunities to glibly refer to Kuala Lumpur as “KL.” Alas no such situations arise.…
I know what you wrote last summer
One difference between teaching creative writing at a Missouri state university and a private college in New York: the use of the “summer lakehouse” setting in student stories has just tripled here in NY.…