How To Make Alien Barbecue

How To Make Alien Barbecue

The ingredients are the following: Aliens—lots of them, in the masthead and on holidays. Mondegreens—because with aliens, there is often a lot of miscommunication through mishearing, mistranslation, and Miss Malaprop-ism. Life Lessons—learned with the proper mangling of proverbs, idiomatic speech, and famous quotes, yet another by-product of alien mis-communication. Photography—that we may document our world, to show to the aliens. Fauxtography—that we may document their world and our interactions with the alien life form, since regularly photography has been yet…

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I Meant To Post This Earlier

I Meant To Post This Earlier

…but Happy Earth Day! I hope everyone worked on making their ecological footprint a lot smaller today. In my effort to save the world, I recycled my food and had leftover soup for lunch. From the experience, I was able to collect some tips and tricks to share with you all. First lesson of the day: when making bisque, puree the stuff first, then heat it up, instead of the other way around—and when you puree, don’t overfill the container…

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Thinking Blogger Award

Thinking Blogger Award

Annie Dean has tagged me. She honored me with a nomination for the Thinking Blogger Award and mentioned this post as being one that made her think. Okay, I’m hornswoggled that anyone would read blogs to think because frankly I do most of my blog reading either when I need to take a break from my work (i.e., from all that thinking I already do) or when I want to see what’s new with some of my favorite people online….

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Faults

Faults

In story, the main character’s tragic faults are usually what cause all the conflict and drama, bringing about his or her downfall. In a romance, those same faults might cause a few misunderstandings in the beginning, but in the end become something acceptable. Yeah, faults are all that and more, but they are always so dressed up in the people you want to like—your friends, yourselves, the heroes and heroines. And villains get all the undressable faults, the ones you…

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Latest Work, 2007 Week 16

Latest Work, 2007 Week 16

One of these (Wicked) is not approved quite yet, but we’re close to it, so I’m adding it here—mostly to keep the numbers even. Share this post: