I wanted to be proactive and start hating Christmas before it even started being a thing, but sadly I’m already starting to see reindeer and cookies with red-and-green sprinkles. The winter cards aren’t back in the store yet because I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I did not actually attempt to take Bela on the plane with me when I went to my cousin’s wedding this past weekend. I’m guessing the change in pressure would not be good for him. Maybe it would make his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is another one of those jokes that maybe four people will get, but that those four people will really, really get.
Every time I either send mail to Walter J. Freeman III or receive mail from him, both of which have happened several times now, I feel terror. But he really has been super nice to me so far. Can it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All authors have one or two. Starting in the third volume he gets awfully fond of fey also. He uses it to mean “crazy,” not “of, like, or pertaining to a fairy” — I don’t think Middle-earth has fairies. When[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to Webster’s Eleventh New Collegiate Dictionary, the standard in my industry, it’s actually best seller, but when they put it on the covers of books like this it’s usually one word. Anyway that’s not the point, the point is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whenas and if I ever acquire a life partner, I wonder if I will still cajole myself like this when I get sick. I think it would be ideal to keep quiet and let him make with the soothing nonsense,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As Lord of the Rings progresses, Aragorn gets more and more Christlike. This is getting hard to reconcile with my image of him as Toshiro Mifune.