So yesterday we had cheese. I opted for a wide range of samplers rather than concentrating on more quantity of a fewer selections. In truth, I probably went overboard. This spread fed twenty people for about $450, with a fair amount left over.
Posted: 6:00 am Sun April 14 2013 | Comments(10) |
The Acts of Whimsy cancer fundraiser and the Lakeside Kickstarter for the documentary about me, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
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Calvin and Hobbes on language — Hahahah.
In the Dairy Case, Ripe Prose — On the language of cheesemongery. Hah! (Thanks to AH, via tillyjane
Women fight to get benefits for breast cancer survivors rushed — Because when you’re very ill is when America shows its cruelty best.
Is It Time to Treat Violence Like a Contagious Disease? — (Via David Goldman.)
Microorganisms Discovered in Middle and Upper Troposphere — I hate it when that happens.
Data Storage: The DNA Option — Brings a whole new meaning to the term “thumb drive”.
Physicists seek cosmic domain walls — Because science! (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Simulated Pickett N4-ES Slide Rule — Because math!
Apollo 16: Driving on the Moon — APOD with some cool video.
North Korea Is No Longer A Big White Space On Google Maps — You can even find your friendly neighborhood gulag now.
A climate seesaw in the Atlantic — Researchers are trying to understand the impact of the Atlantic’s big cycles. This is how science works. Instead of the comforting ideological certainty and willful ignorance of denialism, climate science constantly tests itself.
In a Quick Shift, Scouts Rethink a Ban on Gays — Another domino in the wall of conservative bigotry falls? They’re going about it in a half-assed way, but at least this is progress.
Boy Scouts reconsidering stance on gay members — Really, who wrote that headline?
Do white evangelicals have a delusional persecution complex? Barna says yes, and provides quantifiable proof — A majority of white evangelicals “want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture,” said David Kinnamon, president of the Barna Group. “Dominate.” Or, as Christian said, it’s not about religious liberty, it’s about religious primacy. The idea that Christians are persecuted in our society is a wonderfully self-valorizing concept that has no correspondence in reality, unless you define “persecution” as “marginal erosion of the privilege inherent in absolute cultural dominance.”
QotD?: Are there photographs there? Is there moss?
1/29/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (still in post-operative recovery)
Hours slept: 7.0 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.0 hours (post-operative recovery)
Weight: n/a (forgot)
Number of FEMA troops on my block protecting women from violence: 0
Currently reading: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
Posted: 6:42 am Tue January 29 2013 | Comments(0) |
In praise of … roquefort — Just in time for Christmas comes news the cheese harbours anti-inflammatories that work wonders for the heart. Mmm. (Via Scrivener’s Error, among others.)
Megapiranha, Prehistoric Piranha, May Have Had Strongest Bite Ever — 1.3 meter long piranha? Wow…
Hawaiian Islands ‘dissolving from within’ — Oh noes Runa away!
The 12 Instruments of Deathmas (Fa-la-la-la-la!) — Implements of pre-anesthetic surgery. Really, don’t click through to this unless you have a strong morbid streak and a good stomach. On the other hand, if you can hack it (see what I did there?) this is pretty amazing stuff. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Boston Priest to Lead Vatican’s Oversight of Sexual Abuse Claims — Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday named a priest from Boston, the epicenter of the sexual abuse crisis in the United States, as the Vatican’s new sex crimes prosecutor. Also known as the Vatican office of “La la la I can’t hear you, and besides it’s the fault of those sultry boys and the dirty hippies”, or for short, “Suffer the little children.” I’d be a lot more impressed with the Vatican’s efforts in this regard if anyone in the Church’s senior leadership had ever taken responsibility or accepted punishment, rather than simply being transferred out of the relevant jurisdictions.
Scrivener’s Error on sociopathy and the NRA — With documentation. This.
The NRA and the positive good of maximum guns — In short, the NRA has become a neo-Confederate movement that sees Federals as foes, and that stokes the paranoia of its followers by claiming, as LaPierre did this year, that Obama’s re-election marks “the end of our freedom forever.” That’s more or less what Fire-Eaters said about Lincoln in 1860. And alongside the dominant right wing of the Evangelical movement, the NRA is pretty much the face of evil in mainstream America today.
Random Thoughts on the Ramblings of a Mad Man — Steve Buchheit says a lot of what I would have said (if my brain weren’t so fogged by illness) about the moral depravity and political insanity of Wayne LaPirere and the NRA as evidenced by Friday’s press conference. Yes, I have a bias here. My bias is people should be safe to live in peace.
U.S. Shooting Deaths Since Sandy Hook Top 100 — Your gun rights have cost 100 more lives since Sandy Hook. I sure hope you feel safer, because I sure as hell don’t.
?otD: Everyone still here?
12/22/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo brain)
Hours slept: 11.5 hours (10.5 hours solid, 1.0 hour napping)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (30 minutes on the stationary bike)
Weight: 212.2
Number of FEMA troops on my block confiscating firearms and shutting down the Internet: 0
Currently reading: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
Posted: 8:50 am Sat December 22 2012 | Comments(0) |
Waterloo Productions will be following my chemo experience in realtime on Facebook this weekend — Come along for the ride, if you’re curious.
Hydrated and delicious — Language Log with a long riff on “cringe words”. We all have them, and it’s kind of baffling unless you share the particular cringe. For me, the nicknames “Compie” and “Lappie” for computers are cringe words.
Write Your Own ‘Shatoetry’ and ‘Shatisms’ with William Shatner’s New iOS App — Presented without further comment, because basically none is possible. Well, except for the observation that “Shatoetry” is probably a cringe word. (Via Lisa Costello.)
Sandwich Monday: The Latke Double Down — Wow. Slightly reminds me of the über sondvich at Eastburn. (Via @ShellyRaeClift.)
Cheese through the centuries — Because cheese!
Model Warfare — BLDGBLOG on the history of art as a tool of warfare.
Indiana Jones Mystery Package — Abner Ravenwood’s diary surfaces. Surrealist performance art on the hoof at the University of Chicago. I love this. (Via both danjitescarlettina
NASA’s GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map — Cool stuff. (Via corwynofamber
Titan’s Big River (and Thoughts of Jules Verne)
Quantum networks may be more realistic than we thought — Delicate qubits survive long distances in quantum communication without a memory.
Recreational marijuana should not be top federal priority: Obama — President Barack Obama says federal authorities should not target recreational marijuana use in two Western states where it has been made legal given limited government resources and growing public acceptance of the controlled substance. Yeah, duh. This issue doesn’t affect me personally in the slightest — I don’t use even though I live in a state with a medical condition that would allow me a marijuana card — but as a matter of rational social policy there’s only one direction it can go. “Rational”, however, does not often describe our social policies, viz this nation’s views on welfare, healthcare and gun control.
Minimum Wage Machine (Work in Progress) — Yeah, well. For those of you who oppose raising the minimum wage, imagine living on that. (Thanks to danjite
US backs United Nations measure in favor of universal health coverage — Ah, irony, we hardly knew ye.
Calif. judge says victims’ bodies can prevent rape — A Southern California judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim “didn’t put up a fight” during her assault and that if someone doesn’t want sexual intercourse, the body “will not permit that to happen.” Is this guy a GOP Senate candidate? As amply demonstrated at length during the most recent election cycle, that’s such a Republican view of women’s health; and as such, profoundly and insultingly wrong.
The perils and potential of N.A.L.T. (Not All Like That) — Slacktivist Fred Clark on Dan Savage’s take on Christians and Christianists, and what do about the fact that conservative bigotry has become the public face of Christianity in America.
76 Things Banned In Leviticus — All of which are equally abominable in God’s eyes. You know, like wearing mixed fabrics. Or homosexuality. Or trimming your beard. See the whole list to know what you should be protesting on the streets every week and agitating for ballot measures to ban. Assuming you need further proof that Christianists are ridiculous theological and intellectual frauds. (Via Steve Buchheit.)
Clearly has no problem with straw men, long as their haystacks aren’t touching… — There was a time I regarded Justice Scalia as a guy who was intellectually honest although I disagreed with him, a reasonable mind I could differ with. Was. It’s a long time gone. Yep. The way Scalia abrogated forty decades of his own legal reasoning in order to vote against the ACA pretty confirmed what had been obvious for years — that he’s a partisan hack who places political interests above law, precedent, the Constitution or the national interest. Which is precisely what conservatives want in a Supreme Court justice. (C.f. Clarence Thomas, who unlike Scalia has the added advantage of being a dim bulb unlikely to ever be troubled by an attack of conscience of the sort that led to Chief Justice Roberts’ aberrant vote on the ACA case. Dumb and loyal are the perfect qualifications for a GOP nominee to any Federal bench.) This piece does a terrific job of unpacking Scalia’s knowing intellectual dishonesty and personal mendacity in service of his political and cultural goals. (Via Steve Buchheit.)
Lieberman Will Not Be Missed — Actually, go ahead and let the door hit you on the ass on the way out, Joe. It’s the least you deserve.
It’s okay to be extreme in the Senate, but only if you’re a Republican — The most liberal member of the Senate, Bernie Sanders, was more conservative than 38 members of the House. Furthermore, nine Republican senators were more conservative than Sanders was liberal. Well, duh. Conservative extremism is patriotic, liberal extremism is socialism. Ask any Tea Partier.
?otD: What’s your cringe word(s)?
12/14/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo brain)
Hours slept: 10.25 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.5 hours stationary bike ride
Weight: 219.0
Number of FEMA troops on my block enforcing international law and Kenyan Muslim socialism: 0
Currently reading: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
Posted: 8:27 am Fri December 14 2012 | Comments(1) |
The best trailer yet for The Hobbit
The Fungus in Your Cheese Is Having Weird Sex — Well, this certainly explains a lot.
Schrödinger’s gardenia: Does biology need quantum mechanics? — A review of the processes that might exploit quantum weirdness.
Ediacaran study shakes the tree of life — Ah, science.
Are genes our puppet masters, or just a single link in a complex chain? — Jim Watson goes after the epigenetics fans.
PartiallyClips on the oddities of the medical pain scale — I’ve actually had a version of this conversation.
Health-themed greeting cards fill a supportive niche — Hah! (Via Lisa Costello.)
Google from the 1960s — This is way too much fun. It rewards time spent playing. (Via @gabrielle_h.)
The iPhone Gets an Answer to Google Now — Siri gets some competition from an app that offers answers to search queries you haven’t even made yet. Interesting but spooky.
Google Maps back on iPhone after Apple software fiasco — Finally, an end to Apple’s corporate dick-waving at the expense of millions of customers. No more Apple Maps for me.
Surprising Source of Tsunamis — Meteotsunamis. Huh. Obvious enough in its way, after the fact. (Via Daily Idioms, Annoated.)
Vast Alien River System Spotted on Saturn’s Moon Titan — Ooooh. (Via corwynofamber
DNA testing frees man who lived on death row for 15 years — Ah, justice. [A]cademic studies […] suggest that 2% to 4% of death-row inmates are probably innocent. “If that was the rate of failure of airplanes,” he says, “would you fly?” (Via Slacktivist Fred Clark.)
Another Tragedy, Another Missed Opportunity To Talk About Gun Control — Charles Pierce with comments on the Oregon shootings. [C]rimes involving the easy availability of firearms are swiftly isolated as individual events, pried loose from any social and political contexts, and even separated from the context of other, similar crimes. It is never time to talk about them.
Carney shuts down WH press conference after being asked about Prop 8 case — Classy, Obama administration. Standing up for what is right is part of what won you the election. You might consider it as policy going forward. If you’re going to be evasive on questions like this, you might as well join the black helicopter brigade on the other side of the aisle. All you’re doing is pissing off your own constituency while feeding paranoid wingnut victimization fantasies.
Do corporations pray? — [W]e are, however, living in a Golden Age of imagined religious persecution, in which the seasonal gestures of department stores are a grievous injury to the faithful, and the inability to make public policy consistent with religiously-based political views is deemed martyrdom. Yes, the erosion of Christian privilege in America from absolute supremacy to merely overwhelmingly dominant is definitely seen as persecution. (Via Slacktivist Fred Clark.)
Lie of the Year: the Romney campaign’s ad on Jeeps made in China — It was the Jeep-to-China ads that really sealed my understanding of the cheap, cynical opportunism of Mitt Romney and confirmed his poor character. Not that there wasn’t plenty of evidence prior to that.
The Importance of Foreign Policy Knowledge — Despite his “clear set of principles,” Romney’s lack of knowledge about foreign policy issues frequently led him to make poor choices and caused him to say foolish things that wrecked whatever credibility he might have had. Romney is a prime example that a “set of principles and a vision to go along with it” aren’t nearly enough.
?otD: What’s your favorite color?
12/13/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo brain)
Hours slept: 8.0 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.5 hours stationary bike ride
Weight: 219.4
Number of FEMA troops on my block enforcing international law and Kenyan Muslim socialism: 0
Currently reading: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
Posted: 6:20 am Thu December 13 2012 | Comments(1) |
Fuck Yeah SciFi/Fantasy WOC — Author Scott Lynch responds to a critic of the character Zamira Drakasha, a black woman pirate in his fantasy book Red Seas Under Red Skies, the second novel of the Gentleman Bastard series. Plus Anne Bonny. Duh. (Via rekre8
The Misty Mountains song from The Hobbit — This gets me every time, even in this European cover version from str8bvoices.
Notes After a Viewing of Red Dawn (2012) — The Mumpsimus is interesting. Long but worth the read if you’re interested in either film criticism or politics.
‘Bird Buggy’ keeps noisy parrot quiet — and mobile — I for one welcome our new psittacine overlords. (Snurched from @jeremiahtolbert.)
Tennis star Novak buys up world’s supply of donkey cheese at £400 a pound for new restaurant chain — Because… I got nothing. Except that I want to try it. (Via danjite
Cafe Ginza: 1941 — I continue to be fascinated by this image, both for haunting historical reasons (note the date, and probable fate of all the business owners and families on this street), and for the curious details, like the name of the doctor on the sign in the right edge of the frame. Even the movie posters on the wall of the cafe are interesting.
Apple Maps ‘is life-threatening’ to motorists lost in Australia heat — Hey, Apple. Your Maps app is the Newton of this generation. Give it up already. Enough with the corporate dick waving. Can we please have our damned Google Maps back on the iPhone?
On “Otherness” at Christmas — The Velveteen Rabbi writes about being Jewish at Christmas. Highly recommended reading for any Christian who somehow imagines they are part of an imperiled religion in modern America. I think there’s something profoundly valuable in the de-centering experience of recognizing that one’s own paradigm is not the only paradigm. But I recognize that it isn’t always easy or comfortable. And if it isn’t happening in a reciprocal way — where I recognize that my way isn’t the only way, but so does the other guy; specifically, so does the person with the privilege of being in the dominant / majority position — it can feel alienating and painful. Everyone else is having a great time and I’m outside the party — alienating and painful. That mainstream experience is “normal,” and I feel perennially “other” — alienating and painful.
Climate Change 101: Separate Fact from Fiction
Same-Sex Issue Pushes Justices Into Overdrive — I’m extremely dubious of the assumption that the narrow ideologues on the Court’s Right are going to place any emphasis at all on public opinion. They’ve proven time and again they’ll place the conservative political agenda above either the national interest or the Constitution. Scalia’s tortured reversal of a lifetime of his own legal reasoning in order to avoid supporting the Obama administration on the ACA ruling was just the latest example.
Likely Increase in Births Has Some Lawmakers Revisiting Cuts — The latest Health and Human Services Commission projections being circulated among Texas lawmakers indicate that during the 2014-15 biennium, poor women will deliver an estimated 23,760 more babies than they would have, as a result of their reduced access to state-subsidized birth control. And it’s costing the state a lot of money in post-natal healthcare. Gee? Ya think? Obviously it requires a grasp of that nasty liberally-biased reality to understand the causal link between availability of birth control and birth rates.
Laura Ingraham Has the World’s Worst Imagination — Conservative commentator outraged at liberal-progressives doing with Obama exactly what she did with Bush. More of that justly famed conservative intellectual consistency in action.
?otD: By the way, which one’s Pink?
12/10/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo brain)
Hours slept: 7.0 hours (fitful)
Body movement: 0.5 hours stationary bike ride
Weight: 216.4
Number of FEMA troops on my block dissolving traditional marriages and plastering OBAMA bumper stickers on SUVs: 0
Currently reading: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
Posted: 6:14 am Mon December 10 2012 | Comments(3) |
Mainspring, by Jay Lake — A mixed (at best) review, with some interesting observations.
One does not simply use iOS6 to walk into Mordor — Hahahah.
Things For Christians Not To Say To Someone Who Has Cancer — Yep. This. And frankly, speaking as an atheist, if God has anything whatsoever to do with my dancer, then He’s a cruel manipulative bastard who doesn’t deserve either my respect or my belief. (Snurched from Slacktivist Fred Clark.)
Canada cheese-smuggling ring busted – policeman charged — A Canadian police officer was among three people charged as the country’s authorities announced they had busted a major cheese-smuggling ring. Mmm, cheese.
Police: Minn. office shooter among “several” dead — Thank god for the NRA and the GOP, or this shooter would not have been able to exercise his defense of essential liberties. Aren’t gun rights grand?
Conn. Man Kills Masked Teen, Learns It’s His Son — Ah, guns.
Curiosity Rover Steps Right Into Ancient Riverbed on Mars
Biologists Replay 500 Million Years Of E Coli Evolution In The Lab — Astrobiologists have recreated 500 million year-old bacteria then watched them evolve. The plan? To look for universal laws of biological evolution.
Bitter Pill — An interesting conservative analysis of how contraception affects women’s welfare across society as a whole. (Snurched from Freakonomics.)
If N.J. archbishop John Myers is right, then only Catholic marriage should be legal (and all Protestants are living in sin) — Yet another of the many reasons I am an atheist: the profound, myopic arrogance of so much of America’s alleged moral leadership.
Scenes From a Multiverse on Biblical ethics — Yep. Pretty much this. Per the above link.
Forget What You’ve Heard. Abortion Does Not Hurt the Democrats — Yep. Let’s actually stand for human rights and full healthcare and gender equality, instead of running from the conservative boojums.
Not The Election They Were Expecting — What do you know? When you run on liberal-progressive ideas, and actually stand behind them, you can even win on them.
New Data Show Net Job Growth Under Barack Obama — So, how did that whole jobs/economy thing work out under the last Republican president?
Don’t Expect a “Sharp Right Turn” in GOP After a Romney Loss — I disagree with Larison on the piece. If nothing else, he assumes that the movement conservatives who dominate the GOP would react logically to a Romney loss. Movement conservatism is proudly illogical and anti-intellectual, right on the place face of its own words, and will seek answers in belief while explicitly rejecting evidence that fails to support those beliefs. Ideology is privileged over reality by definition within the current conservative worldview. To believe otherwise is to credit intellectual honesty and self-awareness to a dominant political group that long ago consciously abandoned precisely those virtues.
Liz Cheney accuses Obama of abandoning non-existent country ‘Czechoslovakia’ — The stupid it would burn, except stupid has become a proudly held core value of conservatism.
RNC-Backed Company Accused Of Voter Registration Fraud — Oh, look. Actual voter fraud. By conservatives. But ACORN!
RNC cuts ties with firm over voter fraud allegations — Good for the GOP for doing the right thing.
?otD: You know that ain’t allowed?
9/28/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0 hours (post-chemo recovery)
Body movement: 0.5 hours stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.0 (interrupted, with napping)
Weight: 229.8
Currently reading: Heartland by Mark Teppo
Posted: 5:10 am Fri September 28 2012 | Comments(0) |
A Rabbit convertible converted to a tiny camper
The write Volvo
Men in Kilts at the Washington Park Summer Festival
Posted: 5:38 am Fri August 10 2012 | Comments(0) |
The open dinner last night at Stamey’s Barbecue in Greensboro, NC was quite nice. We wound up with nine folks including myself. Soon-to-be Asimov’s TOCmate @grayrinehart (who’d driven over from Cary, NC), longtime Internet friend xjenavivexicedrakekatfeete
The food was interesting, though not as good as I’d hoped. I had hush puppies, Brunswick stew, a plate of pork and chicken with cole slaw, and some peach cobbler for dessert. Vinegar is an overly dominant theme in Carolina barbecue. The company was excellent and a lot of fun. I grew tired, and ended things maybe a little sooner than their natural conclusion, but I think everyone went away happy and well-fed. (Cheaply, too. The prices at Stamey’s are quite reasonable.) Getting checked out was mildly hilarious, because we’d all started throwing money against a group ticket, and we confused the poor cashier.
One of the things that I find very fun is going various places around the country and seeing people like this. It was neat to see my cousin, who I haven’t seen in about five years, but also folks I wouldn’t normally see at all, like Gray or xjenavivex
Plus icedrakekatfeete
Photos © 2012, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 3:50 am Wed July 25 2012 | Comments(0) |
Recently I put out a call for questions. In a stunning display of intellectual consistency and logical thinking, I now offer some responses to those questions. My thanks to everyone who participated.
Steve Buchheit: In the intro to “Witness to the Fall” in your collection, The Sky that Wraps, you refer to a lesson you learned about not hot-dogging the writing and paying closer attention to what you were doing and how that story took longer to write than the others to that point. “Witness” has a distinct difference in style, it feels more controlled and deliberate, more lyrical with stronger muscles flowing under the skin. It was much closer to the story you read at Confusion (which I apologize, I don’t remember the title). Can you elaborate more fully on that lesson you learned and how it continues to affect how you write (here I guess I’m asking about the process)?
JL: Honestly, Steve, I don’t remember what I read at Confusion this year. I was a month out of chemo and still fairly befuddled. That being said, this was kind of big deal. I made a fairly thorough blog post on this topic back in 2007, entitled The New Model Process. The heart of the post is this:
I’ve long since internalized that New Model Process, and continued to see it evolve. A fairly clear example of the more recent evolution is in my novel writing process. In addition to the read aloud step I have added, I’ve gotten deeper and deeper into multiple, increasingly subtle revision passes.
As it turns out, I can only draft so slowly. If I write too slowly, it’s like trying to ride a bicycle too slowly. I just wind up falling off. But revisions continue to ramify and extend. Especially at novel length. So that lesson, five years later, is still echoing for me.
Michael: You haven’t mentioned your trip to Antarctica lately…Where are you in the planning stages? Are you still considering doing a kickstarter for it? Or are you waiting until your next scan to decide on these things?
JL: The Antarctica trip is still a goal. My focus has been on the proposal for Going to Extremes, which is the book that will document the trip. The hoped-for result is a sufficiently large advance on Extremes that the trip can be funded out of that. Alternatively, I may yet do a Kickstarter.
MAC: Do you write faster writing fiction or non-fiction?
JL: Hah! I have no idea. I suspect the answer is that I write faster in fiction. I may know more after I’ve worked all the way through the Going to Extremes project, which will be my first foray into book length non-fiction.
jetse
JL: Man, if I knew the answer to that, I’d be a bestseller, wouldn’t I? More seriously, I see at least two answers, pointing to two different facets of the question.
One is that we need to reach a wider audience. Younger. More entry level. And we need to reach them with books and stories that invite them back for more. If every kid that had read Harry Potter became a dedicated fantasy fan, our genre would rival romance today.
The other is that I think we need to continue to redefine our ideas and ideals. In some ways, SF right now is where rock and roll was in the early 1980s. Slick, packaged, overproduced and (relatively speaking) starved for innovation. I suppose that’s normal in the life cycle of any cultural or artistic movement. But if anyone is equipped to break the cycle, it should be SF, its writers and its readers.
I just wish I was smart enough to see how to do those things.
jettcat
JL: Sottocenere al tartufo. ‘Nuff said.
xjenavivex
JL: I do have some specific plans to write Web series content, but I don’t have a contract yet, so I’m not free to comment at any length. Let’s just say steampunk and hella fun, and leave it at that for now. When I can announce more, I will.
xjenavivex
Do you like to cook?
Do you ever look back over your collection of pictures and find yourself inspired to write a new story?
JL: Comfort foods: I love boy food. Pub grub. Pizza. Burgers. Chips and dip. I’d love to reprogram myself on this one, but, well, there you are.
Cooking: I do like to cook. I’m competent but not expert, and have a few signature dishes which I’m quite good at. I’m also capable of following most recipes. But I live alone and eat a lot of solo meals, so I often don’t bother. Plus I have a fair number of people in my life who are much better cooks than I am. Easier to mooch off them.
Looking back: Sometimes, yes, my photo files inspire me. That’s one reason I have them, naturally enough.
Posted: 5:54 am Fri June 29 2012 | Comments(0) |