Month: October 2007
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Beautiful useless things
This article is yet more proof why Japan is a fantasy land without question. I love the last line of dialogue reported in this sooo much.
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For Scott Westerfeld
Reading on Scott Westerfeld’s wife’s Justine Larbelestier’s blog that poor Scott has been deemed “not pretty at all” in a journalistic attempt to play on the titles of his YA Uglies series, I feel compelled to remind all of us of the serious nature of beauty evaluation, and how damaging it can be. Allow me…
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The house on Outlook
The house passed its inspection with mostly flying colors today. There are some little things we’ll have to do, but mostly just routine maintenance stuff that had gone undone as the house had been empty for a good part of the past year. So it looks like I’m a homeowner for sure now. It looks…
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The Love We Share Without Knowing
I mentioned in a post the other day that I had more good news to share, and today it was announced. My second novel will be coming out from Bantam Dell again. Very excited, and very very happy that I’m working once again with Juliet Ulman, the editor who worked with me on One for…
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I feel like dancing
An interesting meditation from Andrew Sullivan on that optical illusion of the dancer. Read and enjoy.
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Which way do you spin?
I just did this right brain/left brain test and am so weirded out. It’s a test to see which hemisphere of the brain you use more. Initially I saw the image of the dancer going clockwise, the right brain way of seeing it. And I watched it and watched it and couldn’t see it the…
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Quote of the Day
A really awesome quote from Equus, forwarded to me by Neal, one of the students in my workshop group at Imagination in Cleveland this summer. I love it. Thanks for sending it, Neal! “I wish there was one person in my life I could show. One instinctive, absolutely unbrisk person I could take to Greece,…
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The Stage, Halloween Style
Come to it and get up there!
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Outlook
As of today my online journal Meditations in an Emergency is five years old. Wow, how time really does fly, as they say. One of the things I like about journals is looking back once enough time has passed to trace the outlines of where I’ve been and where I’m going. Five years ago I…
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Echoes
I found this video on YouTube tonight. It’s made by a young woman named Megan in a nearby city. She read One for Sorrow and has taken photos as well as quotes from the book and set them to music by The Bravery. The song totally rocks. Megan says in the beginning of the slide…