Monthly Archives: August 2005

I hate book descriptions. They either tell you too much about the book, or they talk about some other book altogether. Over at the Penguin Australia website there is a description of Justine’s Magic or Madness. It uses some salesfolk talk like ‘thrilling’ and such, and I guess it sort of describes the plot, but … Continue reading »

Another chance to hope that experts and predictions are well-informed, but not infallible. Hurricane Katrinia is about four or five hours out from the US coast. Poppy Brite has, sensibly if very reluctantly,, left New Orleans. A CNN reporter is there, and blogging what happens. Let’s hope the predictions are wrong, we all get to … Continue reading »

woke this morning, for the second morning running, with a terrible head-ache. pfeh. australia lost the cricket. i don’t mind – england played well – but i’d feel better if australia weren’t making so many dumb mistakes. i hate it when australia loses, but it’s sort of ok if you go down playing well. that’s … Continue reading »

So, I’m innocently browing the web this morning, and come across an article about Amazon’s Shorts program (neatly avoiding the article about whethere Christopher Paolini has jumped the shark already). The article doesn’t say much that is interesting, except for providing a list of all of the writers involved in the program, until Big Fish … Continue reading »

Scott says that Peeps week is now over. We can all resume normal programming, and then he posts this photo (via, I believe, John Scalzi), which I found flat out disturbing. I’m yet to read Peeps, but will soon. Should you? It depends. Does this picture freek you out? If so, go, buy and read … Continue reading »