Q.I. Productions – a wombat, the sink, and how it got there

Via Seth Mnookin’s Gather.com chat to ParagraphNY (this post, specifically), to, well, Blockwriter.com, I got an idea (well, stole an idea) for something that will also be making a timely NaNoWriMo appearance.
Should be coming out in the next few days… not quite the final product, but it’ll be close…

I had it as NaNoMo, in the initial post, which has since been corrected.
And I’m all geared up and ready to go, complete with author photo:
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We’ll see how far I get, seeing as I couldn’t get an edit or two to my contribution to Fenway Fiction II (And Here’s Where the Authors [...]

How many lame-a** posts have begun with those words? Word. Stuttering, trite word. Who am I, Bill Simmons? “What’s with the pop culture reference, Bub?” you might be asking yourself. Or me. But, since I’m not around, it looks like you’re asking yourself.
At any rate, I’m not even so sure this lame title is accurate. [...]

Tyrannosaur Canyon
by Douglas Preston

This was a good enough read… it passed the time on the train quickly, at any rate, and it fits really well into that Crichton space of dinosaurs, science, and adventure.
Like Crichton, sometimes the explication is a little painful, but overall the pace is really good, and it keeps you sitting in [...]

Fox’s new show this fall, Vanished, seems to take a little page from good old Tommy boy… the cell tower network that piggy backs on the existing networks, but outside of them, seems like an updated version of the W.A.S.T.E. renegade postal system from The Crying of Lot 49 .
Interesting, at any rate. Even if [...]