Monthly Archives: October 2008

An acquaintance at the bagel shop where we have breakfast most mornings mentioned that there’s a port-a-pottie in a cul-de-sac on their street associated with some local construction group. By some miracle, the thing remained standing during Hurricane Ike. However, … Continue reading →

I met with the Creative Writing class at a local high school this morning to talk about writing. It’s a fairly small group, about a dozen or so. Some were poets, some were short story writers or novelists, one guy … Continue reading →

David Tennant is to stand down as Doctor Who, after becoming one of the most popular Time Lords in the history of the BBC science fiction show. Tennant stepped into the Tardis in 2005, and will leave the role after … Continue reading →

I think I discovered something that is probably fairly obvious to most people, and that I knew on some level, but it emerged in concrete word form today: the best TV series are the ones where the plot reflects on … Continue reading →

I started reading Drood last night, the next Dan Simmons novel. It’s historical fiction based on Charles Dickens’ infamous unfinished manuscript, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The story starts late in Dickens’ life and he doesn’t come off as a … Continue reading →

My grandfather Vincent died over a decade before I was born. There’s a legend that he jumped ship in Halifax in 1908, meant to explain how he ended up in Canada. While going through some old photographs this weekend, I … Continue reading →

Katie Holmes comported herself quite well on this week’s Eli Stone. She starts out in a vision as a jazz club singer and turns up later as a butterfingered attorney bound for Kenya. She knows how to use her eyes, … Continue reading →

Had to turn the heat on for the first time in six months. It got down into the 30s overnight. I sleep better when it’s cool, I find. I decided to get on the WordPress bandwagon and redid my website … Continue reading →

Today I’m launching a new version of my website using WordPress as blogging software. I’m not 100% settled on the theme, but this one is better than the others I’ve test driven, and the three-column layout seems better than the … Continue reading →

I’ve been invited to speak to the creative writing class at the local high school next week. The day before Halloween, actually. They’re going to read my Halloween story “Harming Obsession,” and I also sent them “One of Those Weeks” … Continue reading →