Lamb, a novel by Christopher Moore. The subtitle on this one is “The Gospel according to Biff, Christ’s childhood pal”, so right off you should know if you’re the type that will enjoy this story, or the kind that maybe shouldn’t pick it up. Me, I’m the type that would enjoy this story. Having read Moore’s novel …
Inspired by Doug’s post on his favourite books, here are thirteen pieces of text that I read in school. Some I liked, some I didn’t. Ones I liked There were several Norse Myths in one of the readers that I had in about Grade Five or so. They were there as sort of a compare and …
So I was out driving around yesterday. I dropped Kathleen off at work, then had to go down to the other end of town* to get a parcel in the mail. The radio started playing dreck, as it will sometimes do, so I tried another station. Specifically, the local college radio station. Like I’ve said …
IMG_4416 Discovered in colinedwards99’s Flickr photostream. …and to cap off your evening, what could be better than a romantic night at The Hexagon, the only four-star hotel in the Western Wastes? The hotel is patterned after the distinctive shape of a snowflake, and fenced with a Wampa-proof perimeter defence system, and our ever-changing entertainment and …
I’ve been busy with writing lately; the Trees story (“Can’t See the Stars for the Trees” or whatever I’m currently calling it), so posting here has been a little sporadic. Here’s a snippet from the story: Right from the start, the boy was a godsend. Toi and Chadow found him one evening, the sun just beginning …
One-sentence synopses for projects I’m working on. Earth Fleet A mysteriously empty Earth serves as backdrop and catalyst to a final, apocalyptic battle between two warring human civilizations. The Coldest War An army of ghosts, resurrected in the outer solar system, battles against incursions from the living in the inner system and a swarm of alien …
Or they can be, anyways. I’m working on expanding and completing the first draft of a story I started in June. It’s set on a slice of a Dyson shell made of trees woven into each others’ root systems, wrapped around a star and sent on its way into the intergalactic dark. No one alive …
If you haven’t seen it, click here now. Apparently the NFB (that’s the National Film Board, a Canadian organization) has put a mittful of classic short films online, including one of the funniest pieces of animations I’ve ever seen, “The Big Snit” by Richard Condie. Enjoy! (Found via BoingBoing.)
The “one red paperclip” dude (Kyle MacDonald) took one year to trade up from a single red paperclip to a house. Impressive. 14 trades, one year, and a house. Congratulations!
Last night a ferocious wind went through town. There wasn’t any rain (not much, anyways), but the wind got up to probably about 100 km/h (~60 mph), and did a fair amount of damage. One co-worker said that he’d seen a truck crushed under a tree on his way to work. My place got off …