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To give a glimpse of what the weekend was like: And to sum up– Oregon is fun! And beautiful! And should you ever go to Portland and need food recommendations, let me list three restaurants that make for some fine dining, which we got to experience through some great friends:…

I know blogs have been sporadic here as of late. No excuse, really. You’d think with all this free time on my hands I’d have plenty of opportunity to wax eloquent here, but I’m a rather distractable person. Anyways, this weekend I have a slight excuse, as the wife and…

Linkage today comes from artist Goro Fujita, who does an amazing job of mixing mundane and fantastic elements that make you do a double-take. Lots of little details to hunt down in many of his works. Here a favorite, and then make sure to check out his gallery for more.…

…I’m definitely investing in some of these: Would it be fair to get some for my coworkers as well to level the playing field, or should I rule the hallway with a nerf fist? I see that smile.  Subscribe in a reader

Ok. This has me rolling. What else is there to say? I see that smile.  Subscribe in a reader

Okay, so perhaps it isn’t full-on reality, but I’ll take this show over all the other ones that are clogging the networks lately.  I see that smile.  Subscribe in a reader

Author Carrie Vaughn has done a three part series on urban fantasy, explaining its virtues, its downfalls, cliches, and what “urban fantasy” means in the first place.  Is there a formula to determine whether a story is urban fantasy or not? Carrie argues that the first thing to look for…

Okay, not quite. But close enough. Are researchers honestly not thinking about what could be done with this technology should it fall into the wrong hands?  Any particular technology trends that have you leery? Like household robots or A.I. pets? Let’s start Monday off with a little panic attack about…

This is one of my failings that I try to weed out of my first draft, so when I ran across this plea to Overwriters by the Editorial Ass., it resonated enough that I needed to share.  Overwriting is a difficult bug to squash. For every instance of overwriting that…

The voting and judging is done for the Clarity of Night short fiction contest. A great job for everyone. Some stellar stories that really stood out from the pack.  Let me thank everyone for your votes that got me in a tie for 3rd place Reader’s Choice. I appreciate all…