Day of The Squirrel
*I put this up at According To Hoyt, but was going to spare the CV readership. Only… Eric went to racoons, sooo…. This is the incident that caused me to have a running gag about the RLF (Rodent...
View ArticleMarx Is dead
And I don’t feel so good myself. When I was in highschool in the seventies (well, it couldn’t be helped. It’s not like I chose my date of birth. But in my defense, I delayed coming of age till 1980) in...
View ArticlePopcorn and the Single Writer
Kevin J. Anderson uses a popcorn analogy to illustrate two methods that beginning writers can use to break into print. One of them consists of writing a single novel and polishing it and perfecting it...
View ArticleThe Money Matter
I hate it when it’s time to get resourceful. For all my innovation in writing, my interest in the new and the different, I crave security at a very deep level. Frankly, it’s a joke that someone with my...
View ArticleWelcome To The Treadmill
*And yes, I feel pretty bad posting on this while half the world is in turmoil. However, if I can’t get over this I’ll be in turmoil. So indulge me for a couple/three posts, and then I’ll hopefully...
View ArticleThe Sarah Doctrine
No, not THAT Sarah. Though she’s welcome to swipe it. As is the White House, if they wish to give a rest to that magic eight ball they’ve been using for foreign policy. What started me thinking on this...
View ArticleBee Stung
Today I was reading an interview with Thomas Sowell (via Glenn Reynolds) and it reminded me of the bee sting theory of poverty. This is the theory that endemic poverty comes about because people are...
View ArticleFor I’ve Been A Stranger In A Strange Land
I’m sorry to have to bring up the subject of Obama’s birth. I don’t want to bring it up in the normal way – ie relating to whether or not he’s eligible for the presidency. I don’t want to do this...
View ArticleAwesome Crazy Sauce
I know Eric periodically writes about being tired of politics, where people get inherently crazy. However, at least in politics you could argue our whole way of life – if not our civilization – might...
View ArticleI Wake Up Screaming
As you know I’m not one to see the glass as half empty. At least I hope I’m not. But the day after Osama’s death, I woke up screaming. Before I even checked my facebook, I knew the vast majority of...
View ArticleIn Soviet System, Books End You
*First, I’ve decided to post under Sarah, for ease of people who know me and this blog. Second, I’ll continue commenting as accordingtohoyt as I’m normally logged in at my blog of that name. Now, the...
View ArticleDisturbed Turtle Week
There are very important things happening in the world: a showdown on the supposedly non-war in Lybia, Republican primaries starting up, supposedly (according to USA Today) our running out of borrowed...
View ArticleFrontiers of Insanity
What is going on with airlines? I clearly don’t have all the facts, don’t even know where to start investigating, but something IS wrong with airlines in the US. Years ago, when reading PJ O’Rourke’s...
View ArticleThe (Publishing) Times They Are Achanging
(Or Why I’m No Longer Agented) … or I won’t be when the thirty days for contract expiration run out. First of all, because dropping ones agent in publishing is a lot like a Hollywood divorce,...
View ArticleThe Big Tabloid Divorce
So, here I was, trying to explain the reason I’m unagented, so that I wouldn’t have to answer a bunch of questions at Worldcon, and so that rumors couldn’t circulate that turned this into the big...
View ArticleSweet Liberty*
I have some experience with revolutions, partly because Portugal never believes a thing worth doing is worth doing only once. I get PTSD at the sound of Green Acres because Porto had one reel in its...
View ArticleEat Your Greens, Have Your Sex, Mind Your Manners!
Three weeks ago, a man referred to me as beautiful. As in, “Here you go, Beautiful.” I was so shocked, I thought that he was talking to my omelet. I will grant you that part of my shock came because...
View ArticleOld Ideas
In Which I Usurp M. Simon’s Role [(mwah ah ah) ahem. Coff. And oh, yeah, crossposted at According To Hoyt.)] Okay, that’s not his sole role, or even his more interesting posts, but you will admit that...
View ArticleDispatches From Different Wars
I apologize to Eric in advance, because I seem to use this blog to vent whenever someone gets me so angry that it starts impairing my writing. This is one of those times. Hold on to your hats, girls...
View ArticleBleating Against Amazon
This is the part of this blog where Sarah takes off the gloves, turns the picture of Heinlein to the wall* so he won’t be shocked by what she’s about to say, and then speaks in the way she learned when...
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