A. Be nobody and have your own book signing. (Yay!) B. Bring Big T and Chicken on day two and have all your friends show up! (YAY!!!) C. And no one else. (Awwwww….) D. But tour the convention center anyway! (YAY!) E. And have one of your most irrepressible friends and her adorable, buoyant, happy… Read More

OKay, honestly? I have nothing to talk about on the above mentioned topic, but I sat down to type and that’s what they were saying on Spongebob–it MUST be appropo of something. Chicken had a wonderful birthday (as she told me) and enjoyed her dark and twisted graphic novel as well as her special copy… Read More

I’m having a major, hardcore crisis of faith in myself as a writer (unfortunate timing, that) but I’m pretty sure I’ll recover. Besides my normal bitching, whining, and public gibbering in a corner about my stresses and artistic shortcomings, about once a year I get a ‘I shouldn’t be doing this!!!!!!!’ burr up my ass…. Read More

Cory:Back off! The man-gods are mine! by teronangel Design Custom T-Shirts At zazzle.com It’s not actually the one I’m wearing this weekend–it’s more like the ‘new and improved version’. But it’s still lame. And it’s still mine:-) (And there should be a back to it, as well:-) ***edited to add–if you click the link, you… Read More

*Long day, filled with snot, naps, soccer and shopping. Everybody now has long pants/sleeve shirts for what passes for winter in the valley. This is good, because we have no money left, and I hear cotton is edible. Seriously–the clerk rang up the receipt and I said, straightfaced, ‘Well that took care of my little… Read More

Okay– I’ll be honest. I’m a little tired, a little sick, and talking about my day doesn’t appeal to me-my kid’s babysitter moved to bumfuck mongolia so my commute time just got longer, I lost my make-up and I had two zits on my face that were the reason cover up was invented, and dammit,… Read More

loved this quiz–but all things considered, I’d rather go to the Gypsy family. Your result for Reincarnation Placement Exam… Holy Land 52% Intrigue, 44% Civilization, 57% Hedonism, 92% Spirituality, 74% Romance, 62% Crowded, 35% Busy. It’s the Holy Land for you! You were very difficult to place. You like civilization and humanity, but you don’t… Read More

You all know how I feel about week six–week six is the slough of despond, the depth of the pit, the bottom bend of the tunnel underneath the demon’s ass. This was week six. Last night, the Cave Troll had a grand scale melt down about whether or not he would sleep in our room…. Read More

My father came over to help Mate with the bathroom today–there was much shop-vaccing and hanging of tarps and sanding…I’m not sure what all they accomplished, but when I returned from my own errands (much about that in a minute) they were drinking beer on the couch and watching the 49’ers game…uhm, er, waiting for… Read More

Here I am. Stuck in the middle with you:-) And the results of my unofficial survey are… We’re all a translucent combination of dark and bright, raising ourselves to the heavens and sinking with quiet finality to the depth of the mortality pond. Groovy. I’m not the only fulcrum on the scales–I like that:-) So–it’s… Read More