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This is the second post in a row I have tried to make about The Phantom of the Opera, and twice in a row, something happened with WordPress when I tried to post them. Both different issues. Both different Phantoms, even, and so I’m going to take this as a sign that I want to…
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I was all geared up to do a little October music post today, but either WordPress or YouTube or some combination of the two is being very touchy right now, so I guess I won’t be going that direction after all. So I thought, what about that moment that I’m sure everyone has, when they…
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October really is a great month. It’s when autumn starts coming in full swing, it ends with Halloween, and my boyfriend’s birthday falls in there somewhere in between. As a man with a soft spot for anything creepy, kooky, and spooky, he’s turned loving October into a veritable art form. In honor of this, I’ve…
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Let’s have a little poll, shall we? If you’re in a shop and the person behind the counter says, “I’ll be right with you,” what do you take it to mean? Today was my last day at the poorly managed nightmare that had been my job for the past year and a half, and, in…
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This week is a special week. I’m in a little bit of a transition period: I’ve quit one job and I’m starting a new one, carefully planned so that there’s no downtime between the two. I’m excited to start with a company that I feel will be able to abolish the things that drove me…
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What does this rickety old train car given over to the power of Nature have to do with the month of July? Everything. You see, July is the month when I buckle down and finish my manuscript for the next book in The Slayer Saga to prepare it for publication in August. I’m finishing up…
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If I recall correctly, I was making a post rather similar to this more than a month ago, but here I am, back from another strange, unintended break. The crux of the problem this time was the roommate with the cable bill moving out and canceling it, needing to get a new service, and just…
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“Barr smiled sunnily. Most young men did, when first exposed to Sumac. Most all men did, actually. The tears came later.” “The Sharing Knife Volume Four: Horizon” by Lois McMaster Bujold. I have a love-hate relationship with the review text on the back of a book more often than not. Either I feel that it’s…
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CAN WE PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO DISCUSS “OVER THE GARDEN WALL“???? (Yes, it requires all-caps and bold letters). “Over the Garden Wall” is a five-episode, ten-chapter miniseries that aired on Cartoon Network last week, and it was practically perfect in every way. It tells the tale of Wirt and Gregory, two brothers who find…
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More often than not, I honestly feel like stories have a way of taking on a life of their own. A good example is Serpent in a Cage, which constantly finds itself diverting from my main idea and rewriting itself. I’m also getting small surprises as I scribble away at Heartless for NaNoWriMo, despite knowing…
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