Writer. Scientist. Thoroughly Disappointing Flesh Muppet.
The giveaway for The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, volume 5 has ended. I’m happy to say that two copies of the book went into the mail yesterday. The lucky winners are:
From Goodreads: James Culshaw
From this blog: Dawn Sabados
Congratulations to James and Dawn! I hope you enjoy the anthology.
Mailing those books became a vivid reminder as to why I’m so hilariously inept at being, you know, an adult.
Well, gosh. This is something neat on a dreary Thursday: thanks to this morning’s Google Alerts, I’ve learned that somebody wrote a nifty little poem based on the Milkweed Triptych.
How’s that for a lovely compliment? I’m amazed that anybody would feel compelled to take up a pen and compose verse after reading Bitter Seeds. Wow.
The poet, David A Marcillo, has graciously consented to let me post his poem here.
A few years ago, I wrote a pair of posts about one of the strangest experiences of my life. It left me with the unsettling suspicion that squirrels (1) can read, and (2) are plotting something, probably against me.
But that wasn’t the only time I got outwitted by a squirrel at the University of Minnesota. Oh, no. Not hardly. When I returned to the U of MN for graduate school, the squirrels stepped up their game. They went from subtle gaslighting to outright demonstrations of contempt for my intellect (such as it is).
This has probably been floating around for a while, but I’ve just discovered that my favorite television commercial now has a sequel.
Why do I get such a kick out of these commercials? Sense of humor, they has it. I like the best. I push to limit, every time.
In related news, I’m now #572,156 on the waiting list for my own petite lap giraffe.
Today, in her lunchtime address as the Mistress of Ceremonies at the 35th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship, Connie Willis referred to me as “leadfoot” (without good cause, I should add).
People in the audience thought she had said “webfoot”.
So now it is generally believed that I am descended from the fish people of Innsmouth.