Finished taxes: six grand winging its out of my bank account today to pay Uncle Sam plus the Governator. That’s only how much I underpaid my taxes, nowhere close to what I paid for 2007 overall. It’s book review time. I’m most of the way through a book entitled Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided [...] » Read more

Scar Night, Alan Campbell I picked this up while Susan was in the hospital, breaking my “no hardcover” rule as it looked interesting. Finished reading it on the same night we watched Pan’s Labyrinth, which meant double helpings of dark fantasy in one evening. I’ve been meaning to read more gothic/dark fantasy, and Scar Night fits [...] » Read more

I think I am developing a one-third-life crisis. Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If [...] » Read more

This is harder than I thought. I don’t think Mimi is going to do this. (Understandable; she’s swamped with essay marking and school studies.) So I’m all alone. Damn. Anyone reading this? If so questions and comments – even a simple “What the hell is going on in this chapter?” – [...] » Read more

I heard about National Novel Writing Month last year, but didn’t enter since I was rather busy. Then I was reminded of this year’s incarnation by monkeyspeak. One thing led to another, and so on Hallowe’en Eve, I signed up. Which means: I need to churn out a 50,000 word novel during the [...] » Read more