Uncreated Conscience

One of the billion reasons I love my Teddy Bear: He quotes the theme song from FIREFLY on Facebook when he’s jumped out of a plane. Teddy Bear Burn the land and boil the sea, you can’t take the sky from me. Bear’s Cousin Did you get a jump in after all? No Taste WORST [...]

The weather gods relented just before sunset, so I was at least able to get my recurrency and a fun jump in before the last load. It was really lovely flying with my instructors again and it felt really good to get back in the air after a long break, especially once I got over [...]

After a 10 month hiatus and a June so soggy it made it impossible to jump, I am back at the dropzone. The skies are blue, the sun is shining, there is nary a cloud in the sky… …and the winds are gusting over 18mph. Which means I cannot skydive. I must have angered the [...]

If there’s something Charles Dickens got right, it was capitalising on the popularity of serially published fiction. Dickens, unlike many of my other favourite authors, had something writers would love to achieve: commercial and critical success within his lifetime. Now, I like Dickens—he has a real gift for creating iconic characters—but I think the secret [...]

RIP Michael Jackson. Not to belittle Farrah Fawcett, but I actually remember when Michael Jackson was on the pop landscape. Granted, it was when he was in Captain EO at Disneyland, but still. I remember it quite clearly despite the fact I was three years old when I saw the attraction for the first time. [...]

Since I’ve gotten my shiny new MacBook laptop and iPod Touch, I will confess to being more preoccupied with playing with my new toys than doing anything productive or useful, like blogging about the books I’ve read, the movies I’ve seen, or even finding someone—anyone in publishing who will hire me, or finishing revising my [...]

This weekend has been nothing but dreary rain. Of course, it decides to turn into dreary rain the moment I decide I want to go skydiving. Boo. Still, it has been nice snuggling with my Teddy Bear again after four long weeks. I missed him lots. So did White-Harp. He also took me to get [...]

I am FAR TOO OLD to be traipsing about New York City until the wee hours of the morning. And yet I persist on doing this. Why? I don’t know. Because I can’t manage anything else, a meme! Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?… Michael Moorcock (b. 1939) 23 High-Brow, 11 Violent, -9 [...]

Happy Bloomsday, everyone! I would give ULYSSES a read-through today, except my friend Kristine has my copy and my other one is so destroyed it has literally fallen apart at the seams. No matter, for I am rereading CATCHING FIRE more slowly this time around (to savour the small details), and Kristine introduced me to [...]

Just finished the ARC of CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins. Am incoherent. And tragically impatient for the conclusion to the series. I hate cliffhangers! So unfair!