W2 - Wendy to the Second Power

Last couple of days are a fog. I'm still feeling mopey and bummed out. Was it a fight or a break-up? I'm still not sure. Tonight I"m sitting around thinking about going out and having a beer. Because there's nothing like depressants to help with depression.

The chicken coop is done. Mostly. I still need to get in there and double staple all the chicken wire so the hungry raccoons don't slip in for a chicken fiesta. Still - looks pretty good if I say so myself. The handles are so that I can port it about the back yard and fertilize various potential gardening spots.



The two little ones (Cajun and L'Orange) came and sat with me. Just sat. Weirdest thing. I still can't draw them well at all.


Mark Russell wrote the Superman Stories (which I republished in the later issues of the Too Much Coffee Man magazine) is now working on re-writing the Bible. He's reducing each book to three paragraphs. I offered to do some cartoons. The project is rolling along nicely. I'll post some teasers in the upcoming weeks. This is Moses from Exodus. I know Crumb is doing a massive bible-tomb (how do you spell tomb anyway?) that's taken him 10 years and will be a work of genius and all that. I'm hoping to spend about a month doing some silly cartoons. Mark's writing is funny as hell and I'm finally learning about the most influential book ever. As a sworn God-Fearing-Atheist It's a blast.


I asked Gary Groth to be my friend on facebook. We'll see if he's man enough.

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Just saw that writer Phyllis Gotlieb has passed away. link to obituary on BoingBoing, her page at LibraryThing

She was one of my favorite writers when I was growing up, and I loved her short stories. My favorite books of hers were The Kingdom of Cats, A Judgement of Dragons, and Emperors, Swords, Pentacles. I especially loved the novella in A Judgement of Dragons, where the two alien characters go back in time to fight an entity that is trying to stir up an attack against the Jewish community in a 19th-century Polish village.

This is turning into a lousy day.

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The Aaron Allston Fundraiser is July 19, 1-5pm, at Arbor A in San Gabriel Park, 445 E. Morrow, Georgetown, TX. You can also make a Paypal or check donation. Aaron is an SF/F writer and all around great person, and he had a heart attack during his book tour last March, and has major medical bills.

If you can't donate or go to the auction, please help by spreading the word.


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Books I need to get eventually:

Royal Flush, the new "Her Royal Spyness" book by Rhys Bowen.

Kings and Assassins by lanerobins.

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

Clarion West Special Evening

With Samuel R. Delany, Jack Womack, Cat Rambo, Kris Dikeman and guest-hosted by Rajan Khanna, July 15, 2009

In honor of 25 consecutive years of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and Amazon.com’s challenge grant, the KGB Fantastic Fiction series will be featuring a special Clarion West reading on July 15, 2009.

Clarion West is a non-profit literary organization that administers the Clarion West Writers Workshop, an intensive six-week workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy, held annually in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Amazon.com has pledged to donate one dollar to Clarion West for every dollar the workshop receives from individuals, corporations, government offices, charitable foundations, and special events.


Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany is a novelist and critic who lives in New York City a teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia. His books include Nova, Dhalgren, Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories, Atlantis: Three Tales, and his most recent novel, Dark Reflections, won the 2008 Stonewall Book Award and was a runner-up for that years Lambda Literary Award. His forthcoming novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders will appear from Alyson Books in 2010.

Jack Womack
Jack Womack is the author of Ambient, Terraplane, Heathern, Elvissey, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Let’s Put the Future Behind Us, and Going, Going, Gone. He was in 1994 a co-winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and has twice taught writing at Clarion West. He is Publicity Manager for Orbit Books US, and is presently working on his next novel, Ashland: A Kentucky Murder Ballad.

Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo attended Clarion West in 2005 and since then has published dozens of short stories in such markets as Weird Tales, Asimov's, Strange Horizons, and Clarkesworld. Her collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories, appeared in 2007 and her first solo collection, Eyes Like Sky And Coal And Moonlight, is forthcoming from Paper Golem Press. She is also the managing editor of Fantasy Magazine.

Kris Dikeman
Kris Dikeman is a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2005. Her work has appeared in Sybil's Garage, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and the forthcoming Year's Best Fantasy #9. She was a finalist for this year's Story South Million Writer's Award.

Rajan Khanna
Rajan Khanna is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop.
His work has appeared in Shimmer Magazine. He lives and writes in
Brooklyn, NY.

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Wednesday July 15th , 7pm at
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Just posted The Potter's Daughter to my web site.

It's an Ile-Rien story, set before The Element of Fire, featuring Kade. It was a story I donated to Elemental: the Tsunami Relief Anthology, edited by Steve Savile and Alethea Kontis.

Thanks very much to everyone who put something in the tip jar for The Forest Boy. I still feel very awkward having the tip jar, but having a little money coming in right now feels very good.

Remember the olden days, when people didn't have freon-infused machinery to make torrid weather bearable? It's a blast of the oldies here -- my AC died last night!

And, of course, the weather is so freaking hot now. The coolest it gets late at night? About 84 degrees.

I discovered lying on your stomach at least lets the ceiling fan waft balmy air across your back. But, not much sleep for me last night. AND I have to lead a departmental conference call at 9:00 a.m. today

So sticky and yucky! Hope the AC man can make it right right away!

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Work is quite frustrating at the moment. I can't finish anything because every time I focus long enough to ALMOST finish, then I get another e-mail contradicting what I already have written.

Today, I talked to an academic about helping her write three papers she has to finish by the end of August. I think it's kind of bizarre that she wants to hire me (I was recommended by my lifecoach), but I understand why she needs help. And I'm happy to do what I can. I am not sure I'll be able to do what she needs. But it DOES make me glad that I left academia when I did.

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