Daily Archives: May 30, 2006
Wiscon 30/06
Posted on May 30, 2006 15 Comments
First of all, a moment of silence for my cell phone, which apparently slipped the surly bonds of earth sometime on Saturday and hasn’t been seen since. I suspect it has been bodily translated into heaven, where it will serve to take voice mail and blurry photos for the angels. If I had actually paid […]
The Perfect Man
Posted on May 30, 2006 10 Comments
No, it’s not me (the pictures of me faux-stripping at Wiscon prove that readily enough). No, it’s a new short story by my friend Lauren McLaughlin, which was published in Salon today. Lauren read a portion of it yesterday at Wiscon, and it was a whole lot of fun, so I recommend you check it […]
Something to Hold You
Posted on May 30, 2006 8 Comments
Here’s the rat bastard thunderstorm supercell that caused us and what felt like a half-million other people at O’Hare Airport so much damn trouble getting home last night. As I think I mentioned earlier, we ended up renting a car to get home; the whole report on the “getting home” thing is here. I’ll be […]
Brain-Dead
Posted on May 30, 2006 6 Comments
Ended up driving home from Wiscon, which is quite a feat because we flew in. I’ll have more details about that and Wiscon in general later. Probably much later, because as you might see from the timestamp, it’s quite late. If you’ve sent me an e-mail any time since last Thursday, it’s likely you’ve not […]
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