Jenn and I made a joint resolution to get out of the house more often this year. One reason for this is that we stayed holed up for much of 2011 hoarding our nickels and dimes, and we decided enough was enough! Another reason is that while both of us love Los Angeles, neither of [...]
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At the beginning of 2011, I wrote the following: So far the plan is pretty simple: New novel. New album. And generally keep doing what I’m doing, but better. Okay, so I didn’t finish the new novel, or the new album — but I started both, so that’s partial success. What about the third thing? [...]
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Wow, where the heck did December go? One second I’m flying off to Iowa, the next it’s almost 2012! At the end of NaNoWriMo I declared December “getting my shit together” month, but I seem to have only partially succeeded. I blame part of it on day job discombobulation: I was switched from a Monday [...]
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I just got back from a few days in Iowa City, my first vacation in way too long, and my first trip back to Iowa in over two years. I love Iowa City. If Fredonia, New York is my hometown, Iowa City is my home away from home. My life there had its flaws, but [...]
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So National Novel Writing Month comes to a close today, and with my shift at work looming it looks like my last fiction-writing session is behind me. Total word count for November: 27,317. Not quite the numbers I was hoping for, but I’ll call it a conditional success, because hey, that’s 130+ pages I wouldn’t [...]
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I had a crappy week at work, and I’ve been discombobulated with the whole “between novels” thing. This all combined to put me into a weird, punchy, bad mood lately. So last week I redirected my aimlessness at Garage Band to piece together a new “theme song for a TV show that doesn’t exist” — [...]
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Hmm, it’s been a little quiet around these parts lately, eh? I’ve been on a bit of an extended break, for a variety of reasons — including the fact that some joker hijacked my homepage recently. Jenn identified the vulnerability and restored everything, but in the process I ended up with a new website theme. [...]
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As expected, the blog’s kind of taken a backseat to actual writing lately, or I would have announced this sooner: This past Carmageddon-weekend-that-wasn’t, Jenn and I went out to run some errands and accidently fell in love with a new little fellow at the Kitten Rescue event in Canoga Park. Everybody, meet our newest little [...]
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