Monthly Archives: July 2009

I can hardly believe it. Things change quickly around here.  Just yesterday morning I was posting to a private mailing list that I was disappointed to not be going to World Fantasy in San Jose this October.  Many of my friends are going, it’s my favorite convention in the world, and there would be a … Continue reading »

I was born in 1964. I was five years old (just shy of my sixth birthday) when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. I very clearly remember clustering around our old black and white television set to watch the lunarlanding, just as we later would watch the follow-up Apollo missions, Skylab and so on throughout … Continue reading »

My friend girliejones is hosting a ‘Women in Music’ appreciation month.  There are a lot of artists, songs and albums I would recommend: Suzanne Vega’s debut, Rickie Lee Jones’ debut, Norah Jones’ debut, Missy Higgins’ debut, the Indigo Girls early compilation 4.5, Heart’s Dreamboat Annie, Joni Mitchell’s Blue, and either of the first two Pretenders … Continue reading »

Well, this weekend is going to be about three things. Finishing Eclipse and Subterranean, and planning my schedule for the US trip. I’m terribly, terribly behind on the latter. I know where the planes are going to leave me, but not much else, which is crazy. I’ve not got a final program from Anticipation, but … Continue reading »

The family are out of the house right now. I’m playing The Weepies. It’s been a hard couple days, made a lot harder by some things I just need to filter out of my world for a while. I need to make things a bit simpler, rather than more complicated. In the meantime, I’m going … Continue reading »