Monthly Archives: October 2003
Marking Myself for Death
Posted on October 10, 2003
As if I haven’t enraged enough people this week: Why the Cubbies and Red Sox must lose. It’s over at By The Way because I have to spread out the love. You know. However, inasmuch as AOL Journals only allows AOL-associated accounts to comment, feel free to leave comments here.
Link
Posted on October 9, 2003
Longtime Whatever reader Ed Thibodeau has started his own blog, Nonplussed. Go over and say hello. Interestingly, one of this current entries starts off “John Scalzi has apparently gone off his meds.” I somehow suspect that’ll be reason enough for some of you to drop by for a visit. I didn’t even know I had […]
Somewhat Rambling Follow-Up
Posted on October 9, 2003
Another widely distributed post, another influx of new readers, another orientation session with John Scalzi. As I’ve noted before, new commentors are often taken aback with me, since I tend to respond to attempts at condescending invective with even more condescending invective, and attempts at flamage with pure mockery and derision. Honestly I don’t see […]
California Schemin’
Posted on October 8, 2003 22 Comments
Yesterday I wrote a brief and somewhat snarky entry about the California election over at By The Way, which occasioned an e-mail from a frequent reader chastising me about my shallow observations and willingness to swallow the Democratic line on the matter. I sort of snapped off his head in an e-mail, which was not […]
Plates
Posted on October 6, 2003 1 Comment
Just in case any of you thought I was just kidding about it, please peruse the license plate of our new minivan: We’re gonna have so much fun with this thing.
Chicago
Posted on October 6, 2003
I spent my weekend away from the keyboard in Chicago, where Krissy and I had tickets to see Eddie Izzard on Saturday night. That would only occupy a couple hours of time there, so we had to find other things to do. Fortunately, Chicago is not without alternate entertainment activities, and we kept ourselves suitably […]
AFK
Posted on October 3, 2003
I’ve promised Krissy she can break my fingers if I use the computer this weekend. So, you know. Don’t expect anything new until Monday, either because I’m not using the computer or because I’ve been reduced to typing with my nose. Have a great weekend.
National Novel Writing Month
Posted on October 1, 2003 8 Comments
I’ve had a reader request about my thoughts on the National Novel Writing Month thing, the annual event in which aspiring novelists from all over the country decide to bang out 50,000 words in the space of November. November has 30 days, so that’s about 1,700 words a day for each participant — a nice […]
Country Boy
Posted on October 1, 2003
Living in the country has not affected me one bit. Now, now, stop with the screaming. I’m just playing with you. I’m still the vaguely liberal high-tech geek with a degree in philosophy. Hell, I’m even wearing sandals at the moment. But I bet I had you going there for a minute. Although for the […]
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