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Theater Review: The Little Dressmaker
Olga Ivanovna is trapped in a small town. She leaps around, collecting every visiting "star", every scrap of local talent.
Read More »Harry Potter and the Sweepstakes of iPod
Ironically technophilic contest heralds the arrival of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in paperback.
Read More »Book Review: Milking That Crazy Cow: a Century of Cereals edited by Marty Gitlin and Topher Ellis
A sweetened crunchy reference book for breakfast reading.
Read More »NaNoWriMo Notes #12: What’s My Genre?
I'm beginning to realize that writing the books is the easy part of being a novelist. It's what comes after you're finished that's difficult.
Read More »Book Review: Captain Alatriste – Arturo Perez-Reverte
Long live the Captain, and may he live to fight many a battle for our entertainment and edification.
Read More »Book Review: The Pinbotz Guide to the Greatest Pinball Machines of the ’80s and the ’90s
Always wonder how to get that watery look on White Water? This informative buyer’s guide to 20 pinball machines will tell you.
Read More »Book Review: Bare Naked Truth – On the Religious Right by Stacey Tallitsch
A Louisiana Congressional candidate launches an assault on what he perceives to be the combined political aims of the religious right and the Bush Administration.
Read More »NaNoWriMo Notes 11: The Doubting Game
I discovered new ways of becoming my own worst enemy.
Read More »Book Review: America! What Have You Done to the Auld Game?
I started playing golf as a youngster more than 35 years ago. In the early 1990s, though, I walked off the public course I normally played and didn’t pick up a club for about five years. Why? Neither my temperament nor my personal life could handle taking 4 1/2 to …
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