Tales from the Raven

My five-year-old is learning to buckle her own seatbelt reliably, and is also eternally curious, so she asked me what would happen if she didn’t buckle up. I explained that I could be fined, lose my license, or even possibly go to jail. (Maybe a bit extreme, but I wanted her to buckle up). She thought about that [...]

The first of the fallout from the Va Tech shooting has hit the field of writing.  A high school student in Cary, Ill. was arrested for a creative writing essay that his teacher found ‘disturbing’.  The essay has not been released, so far as I know, but some of the content has been reported in [...]

Jim C Hines, in an interview over on Writers Plot.  He manages to plug his book without ever admitting to the crime, drop a few pointers for aspiring writers, and keep you chuckling throughout.  Congrats on the latest Goblin book, Jim.

Okay, so hopefully I’ve finally solved my problems with spam comments.  It turns out that Akismet (thanks again for the recommendation, Jordan) was sitting in my account waiting for me to turn it on all along.  Ye know, I’m finding that sometimes it’s a good thing to read those blabbery notices sent when you start up [...]

An arthurian urban fantasy by Peter David, Knight Life is about the return of King Arthur to modern day New York, and his subsequent political campaign for the mayorship. I wouldn’t say it was a can’t-put-it-down read, but once I set it down I was sure to look around and find I’d picked it up again.  The [...]

Jordan’s got a blog discussion of a new planet found around a red dwarf star “Gliese 581″. The thought of a giant standing wave circling the planet has me intrigued–can you imagine catching that wave?  And how far you could ride it?  What a rush!

The Houston Museum of Natural Science is looking for Cockroaches–but not in the basement. They’re asking people to contribute the little buggers from wherever they may find them, and they’ll pay in cash or a museum pass.  But there’s a catch– They want them alive and healthy.

I’ve been toodling around the internet today (ignoring my staggering pile of classwork) and came across this quiz, which I linked to through G. W. Thomas’s site. According to the quiz, I’m Arthur C. Clarke. Who the heck is Arthur C. Clarke? Well, the guy who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey, among other things.  I remember [...]