So, the LOST writ­ers claim not to be lost at all. They’re not just reel­ing the episodes out from noth­ing. It’s all going some­where, some­how, some per­fect way. More­over (first time I’m using that word. cool, yeah?), they also guar­an­tee that this crazy upside-down inside-out unfan­tasy island, it’s not some form of limbo or purgatory, […]

I’m there tomor­row night, Fam­ily Guy* ter­ri­tory. Read­ing stuff aloud. Maybe eat­ing a cookie or two, answer­ing ques­tions. Here for more spe­cific type of info. Too, thanks to my stu­dents, I’m now hooked into Salad Fin­gers. Bet­ter late than never, I fig­ure. ____________________________________________ * which I’ve still yet to ever see an episode of — though […]

FRINGE, yep. Best series opener I think I’ve seen. And that’s includ­ing the white bears in LOST, the aliens in X-FILES, the space jel­ly­fish in STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION, the plum­met­ing cheer­leader in HEROES, the (if I’m remem­ber­ing cor­rectly) sewn-up mouths in MILLENIUM, the look on Tom Vail’s face when Alyson denies know­ing him in […]

from try­ing on just a whole lot of women’s clothes: 1) While I can wig­gle into 9/10 pants or slacks, 11/12 is a lot more com­fort­able. 2) Extra-large in a blouse isn’t even a large in men’s sizes. 3) Peo­ple will watch you, if you carry enough blouses and pants suits into the dress­ing room. 3b) That […]

From Led­feather. Was dig­ging through an old box today and came across it, but now can’t find it on my hard-drive. Any­way, it’s the one I talk about in the author’s note at the end — the one that pretty much started the whole novel. It was sup­posed to get included in the book, too, […]