Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon won Hugo awards - for The Graveyard Book and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog respectively.

I'm over at Romancing the Blog today, waxing sort of rhapsodic about John Hughes.

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2 new entries for You'll All Pay

These are not the usual stuff, folks. Frankly, they're pieces I wrote for a couple of college classes. But I think they have some good ideas in them, so I'm tossing them out in the aether of the Internets for any and all to peruse.

Lucky you, you get invited first.

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It's two entries, as I said, so read one then scroll down and read the other. If you want.

Steampunk Tales Vol. 2 is now available! With a story by ME in it! Letters Between Young Ladies Of Fashionable Society, And The Alarming Events That Unfold Within.

My monthly parenting column.

My thoughts on the last Senator Ted Kenndy: [link]

Some interesting opportunities I thought ya'll might find of use.

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I've been posting some pictures in Bitches of the views of the fire lines from my house. This album is a photo dump of pictures taken within the last hour or so.

I'm going to be in Portland (Oregon) October 1 - 4 for a conference with a group from Olympia. Hotels in Portland are pricey. So I would love to Portland Buffistas. But our group is having trouble finding a reasonably price hotel. The thought occured: the conference site is close to a Max stop. We could find a hotel or motel in a less expensive areal on a Max spot, and take the Max toour conference. Right now I'm looking at Hillsboro. But it is not easy to do a search, because none of the general hotel searches make this kind of criteria easy. If any current or past portland residences have suggestions this would be appreciated. My profie addy is good.