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It was a Christmas miracle!
One of my cousins got a copy of Hint Fiction for Christmas. (I bought ten of them for my sister to distribute.) Here's my story:My cousin called my sister after reading it and asked, "Wow, how did Nick...
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Well, my flight to NY was canceled, which was no surprise. I was supposed to receive an email about it, according to the woman at Virgin America I spoke to yesterday, but I haven't yet.Also, yesterday...
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My Christmas was cold, rainy, and solitary but at least it wasn't in an airport
I'm still in rainy Cali and will be remaining here. I am still watching strangebint's dog—her airline promised promised promised that she'd be home today (for values of today meaning 2am Wednesday) but...
View Article2000-2010, the Internet in review
It's been quite a decade around here. Started this lj in 2001, published books, bought and sold houses, broke hearts and have been heartbroken, zipped around the country, ended up in countless funny...
View ArticlePaired with a writer so miserable your child will never want to even look at...
Speaking of, I'll be running two classes at the Writing Salons in January and February.The commercial fiction workshop will be five Mondays: Jan. 24-Feb. 21, 7-9:30 p.m. Berkeley.Then I'm having a Q/A...
View ArticleWhat year is 2011
Well, the year in which we forgot about grammar and instead thought about potatoes is over—and it worked for me, especially as that tasty Hot Spud joint opened by my workplace.And 2011? 2011 will be...
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A new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from the firm NewSouth (this will be important later) will be published with the 219 instances of the word "nigger" removed to make it more amenable...
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Monday news
That's Allison Warden of Raleigh, with her ridiculous car, courtesy of MSNBC. Given that's its message is most easily read from an aerial perspective, perhaps she likes to think of it as a Post-It Note...
View ArticleMonday quick notes
Finished The Damned Highway, or my part of it anyway!Was thrilled with this review of HARMONY (my favorite day job novel) at io9.com. Kindle sales exploded, thanks to the confluence of a front-page...
View ArticleFine, Julianna Baggott, let's NOT date!
Author Julianna Baggott writes to the boys of the "literary south", in part:You're an intellectual bad ass except when making fun of intellectuals.But let's break this down. You were the sissy boys....
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Karma
Back when the WWW was young and webcrawler.com was really hot, I typed a famed Greek insult into the search bar and out popped the personal page of a college student who named her site after own own...
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Crime, plague of the streets!
Real content will be coming soon. In the meantime, can you spot the street in my town with the anti-crime force field generator buried beneath it?
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Los Angeles, give me some of you...
The latest issue of Fine Books & Collections is out now. See?Anyhoo, it contains a brief piece on me about the forthcoming John Fante Archive exhibit at UCLA's library. So go take a peek, if you're...
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Brr
The field across from my house is covered in frost, and Accuweather tells me its 37 degrees outside. Good thing all California homes are well-insulated so it's never that cold inside...oh wait, that's...
View ArticleControlling grammar
The suspect in the Giffords shooting down in Arizona explains it all:No question that he's a right-wing kook, and likely that he's an untreated schizophrenic. The only actual question is this: after...
View ArticleMonday quick spam
Over at the day job, I'm running an essay contest: tell me what you think about kick-butt heroines and you have a chance to win a copy of Mardock Scramble! Come and play!Just a few weeks remain to sign...
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Stuff
There's a bug going around, and I've almost got it. Time for some pre-dinner gargling. Today at the library I saw this:Maybe they know I'm local!Happy Tuesday, youse guys:
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