Nine unique structures to be built soon

Some of these designs are crazy looking. The future is coming sooner than later...but when are we going to get flying cars? Huh? I'd rather have that than a building shaped like a giant drill.

An important reminder

Remember, couples everywhere, that...



Heh.

Word of the year

"w00t" is named the word of year by Merriam-Webster Inc., and all I have to say to that is: Ha, you bunch of grammar n00bz just got pwned big time!

But seriously, w00t? I use it all the time, but that doesn't make it good.

A cool fort!

Beth Wodzinski, esteemed editor of Shimmer and my most favorite of editors since she published my very first short story, built a fort from a bunch of pillows while she recovers from a sprained ankle. Guess who gave her that suggestion? Me. I hope you didn't get that question wrong.

Anyways, it looks to be a formidable structure despite the fact that a garden gnome managed to somehow fail at protecting those inside. Needs a moat of chocolate pudding though. And maybe a couple of stationary guards armed with tridents. Now we're talking! Man, I want to build a fort...

Farthing review!

Check out my review of Farthing, Issue 5!

In other news, I received Ian McDonald's Brasyl in the mail the other day and am currently trying to figure out my reading schedule. This'll probably come up next after George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords, which kind of irks me as I'd really like to tackle the sequel to Victoria Strauss' The Burning Land next. But since I only have The Awakened City in hardback and will be traveling down the line, that's a bookworm no-no (well, at least it is to me).

Lastly, the funniest/cruelest thing I've seen in some time:

Good ol' Weird NJ

Just stumbled across this. Yeah, that first guy you see driving that crazy car (Hoop) is actually just down the road from me. Well, his cars are at least. I haven't seen him, but those cars are hard to miss. Gotta love good ol' weird New Jersey.

Miscellaneous shtuff...

Got Justina Robson's Keeping It Real in the mail today.

I've finally gotten around to finishing a story, which is now going through a second reading and a quick set of line edits and then it's poof out into the real world with it. These things grow up so fast.

"Hold notice" from Andromeda Spaceway Inflight Magazine on a story of mine, letting me know it's made it through the first round.

And to round out this lovely little bit of randomness, here's a sketch of an armless monster on a Post-It, inspired by the work of Stefan G. Bucher's Daily Monster:

Comments are a go

Wow, I just realized that folks can now comment on MyLifeComics. This seems to be a new function of the site; at least I don't remember it being there a few days ago. I generally don't ever go back to look at the comics after posting, but now I finally have a reason to. The voice of the public shall be heard! Praise me, please!

Map!

I can't claim to understand what this whole map excitement is about, but all the cool kids are doing it. I'm hoping to discover that I have a huge fan base in Japan...



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