My buddy Richard Dansky posted a brief interview the he did with me for his blog as part of his Five For Writing series. After you check it out, scroll down for other interviews with the likes of Doug Clegg, Gary Braunbeck, Alethea Kontis and many others.
We watched two more episodes of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency this weekend. It’s a cute show with an exotic setting and an interesting approach to detection. Mme Ramotswe’s philosophy isn’t about punishment but about righting wrongs and restoring balance. I need to find out what’s in that bush tea she’s always drinking.
Writing captions is exhausting work, especially when there’s a decent amount of research involved. I spent the entire weekend doing captions. Yesterday I started at 7 a.m. and finished at 6 p.m. with only a couple of breaks along the way, and I felt like I’d been exercising strenuously by the time I finished. The publisher still hasn’t received final approval for all of the included material, so there’s a chance some of it may change or vanish, but if all of the material they accumulated for this book can be used, it’s going to make for a terrific book. I can’t wait to find out what the final verdict is. I sent the captions back to my editor this morning, so now I have to wait for the second pass proofs.
Lots of drama on The Amazing Race this week. Though I like Margie and Luke, I think that they over-reacted a little at the mat. There was plenty of blame to go around. Things did get tense at a couple of the clue boxes, but Luke’s aggressiveness at the second one certainly exacerbated the problem. I hope things don’t stay ugly. I thought Victor and Tammy were funny, saying that their ability to speak Chinese only meant that they could understand the taxi drivers when they said, “I don’t know where that is.” The so-called tweedles were never in the race this week. In one of the extra clips on the CBS web site, the redheads said they weren’t even sure if the brothers had been eliminated the previous day or not until they saw their picture at the speed bump. I’d love to see some behind-the-scenes footage that shows what goes on at the pit stops, but that seems to be one part of the show they are reluctant to reveal.
Anyone else read XKCD? It’s a math geek’s comic dream, and the pop-up “extra panel” when you hover over the comic is usually the funniest bit.
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