What are you implying, madame? That I have a steam powered Mark IV Purple Enprosenator running 24-7 in my basement at all times?

(Pssst, everybody! It's actually in his bathroom.)

Besides, there's nothing wrong with this line:

"Twice a day behind their house the tide boarded the sand. Four times a year the seasons flopped over. Clams live like this, but without so much reading."

Man, I really dislike "the seasons flopped over." Flopped?

Yeah, I'm going to have to say I find little purpose in her purple. It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.

It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.

Heh. Dead on.

Also, that would be an awesome writing workshop: Is There Purpose to Your Purple?

It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.

Oh, snap!

Besides, there's nothing wrong with this line:

I was going to leave out the third selection in my quoted text, but "seasons flopped over" convinced me otherwise.

Yeah, I'm going to have to say I find little purpose in her purple. It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.

Ha! But very true. And it's not like I'm disdainful toward lurid and overblown writing or anything.

ooh, Jilli, there was a review in Sunday's paper of a biography of Dr. Polidi - don't know if you'd be interested.

oops - Dr. Polidori (some days I can spell, really!)

I didn't know she wrote anything but books about writing.

OK. I just went to Amazon to see if the paperback of World War Z was out yet, and was bemused by the "Customers who bought this book.." suggestions. [link] (for posterity: "The Zombie Survival Guide; Day by Day Armageddon; Monster Nation: a Zombie Novel; Monster Island: A Zombie Novel; and The Road, by Cormac McCarthy)

Also, The Physics of the Buffyverse has a cool cover. [link]