I have clawed my way to the top–or something like that. Greywalker is the #2 trade paperback on the Locus Bestsellers, January 2007 list. I don’t know how they calculate this position–and the other books on the list are great! (I’m reading trade paperback #3, The Prestige, right now)–but I’m utterly giggly about [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Officially Good
Posted in Book reviews news and 'zines, Stuff about the book(s) on December 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
The continuing saga of holiday breakfasts
Posted in Uncategorized on December 25, 2006 | Comments Off
What is it about me and breakfast on a major holiday? On Thanksgiving, breakfast was several hours late because the water pump switch went out. Christmas day brekkie was beset with weird delays so that we didn’t get food into our bellys until after 1:30 p.m. Well, that’ll teach me to [...]
Bad book covers
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2006 | Comments Off
Bad book covers: Please, dear God, don’t let me have any of these….
More Christmas song insanity
Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2006 | Comments Off
I have been working through the Advent list at Another Form of Relief and having a whale of a time–some really great, warped X-mas music here. Not to mention one of my personal faves (near the bottom of the page), Father Christmas by the Kinks. Gotta love it. Also Fountains of Wayne’s [...]
Christmas Songs We Need More Of
Posted in Just Plain Weird on December 19, 2006 | Comments Off
Jonathan Coulton’s Chiron Beta Prime.
My favorite of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society’s Cthulu Carols, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fishmen.
And anything by Tom Lehrer.
Reindeer Games
Posted in Conventions and signings, Kat Litter on December 18, 2006 | Comments Off
Ok, so I’m lazy, but until I get my butt in gear and post some new Christmas Kat Litter, here’s a link to one of my favorite Christmas freak outs, Kat Litter from December 2002: Reindeer Games. I hope you like it.
And there’s a bunch of new Appearances info on the main site, as [...]
Windy
Posted in Personal blither on December 18, 2006 | Comments Off
Yes, it’s been very windy in Seattle and a lot of the outlying neighborhoods and cities in Western Washington lost power Thursday night due to the wind and rain. My neighborhood, did not. Quite unusually. Most of the time, my funky old part of the city loses power, phone, and cable at [...]
