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  • A world without ending(s)

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    Paul Wells admits to be a ‘serial book-unfinisher’ over here at macleans.ca, & it got me thinking: just how important *is* an ending, anyhow? Have our lives become too darn busy for proper resolution? Or have endings just ceased to be important? Someone once said that you can tell how much you’re loving a book…

  • For the Clarion South Kiddies

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    http://www.tuginternet.com/jja/journal/archives/002330.html “Over a noisy lunch the other day, I overheard Ellen Datlow talking about her experiences in Australia and New Zealand while she was teaching Clarion South. I only caught bits and pieces of the conversation, but I heard someone say “I heard they’re mean,” to which Gordon replied “That’s because they’re all hopped up…

  • And for my birthday I got …

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    … a Ditmar nomination for my story, ‘Number 3 Raw Place’. Yay, me, & all the other nominees. Some fine nominations there (you know who you are). Curiously, the Ditmar list doesn’t appear to be up at the Natcon website yet, so I’m going to link here and here. I’m very chuffed ‘Raw’ was nominated.…

  • Happy Birthday to Me

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    It’s my birthday today & I think you should all take a moment to celebrate being alive. :) Yay!

  • Cold comforts

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    I’ve been told that if I actually *lived* in a place where it snowed, the whole romance of snow would be um, dissolved for me. I was told this most vehemently by Australians based in Toronto. Toronto, they said, is cold. ‘You think this is cold?’ they asked, gesturing at the September skyline, ‘This isn’t…

  • Shaving the yak

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    There’s an episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye wants something*, but to get it he needs a favour from someone, & when he approaches them, he’s told he’ll have to pay off a debt they have to someone else, & then that someone else wants something else, etc, etc, etc, & in the end, Hawkeye weaves…

  • Yeahhhhhhhhssssssssssss!!!

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    It’s real. I didn’t believe it, but it’s real: http://www.redneckandsingle.com/

  • Special skills

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    When it comes to painting a room, turns out I have two special gifts. One is the ability to stand in paint. Even if there’s only one drop of paint on the floor, I am guaranteed to stand in it & track it all across the room & possibly the house. So certain is this…

  • Just another night at casa mia

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    So it goes like this:

  • It’s funky ass. Maybe it’s too funky ass. Maybe it’s really mizzy tizzle I deserve upside yo head

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    I’ve loved US slang ever since I saw LOST BOYS at age fifteen. I think there’s a scene where one of the cool vampire dudes says something like ‘chill out’ . And I thought, “Wow! Chill out! What a tops thing to say! Ace!” Or, I dunno, something to that effect. It’s struck me that’s…