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Just had my first trapeze lesson at Esh Aerial Arts. http://t.co/HnEsMIe1 I'm probably gonna _feel_ this tomorrow.
BTW--Here's footage of my amazing instructor, Rachel Stewart.

"Don't rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again."

"Infidel defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood. Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they will learn why they fear the night."--Thulsa Doom

Yes... I agree with and stand by George Orwell's statement that "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four." But it also the freedom to say that "C" is for "Cookie." And that's good enough for me.

Einstein defined insanity as "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Just for the record--I keep doing different things, and still get the same result. Which is enough to make you crazy. So MAYBE the result is the constant, and insanity just accommodates that result, so that everything you do only seems like doing the same thing over and over....
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Just came back to Boston from South Carolina to teach my new writing class. It's freezing today, in the single digits, with marrow-slicing wind chill. As I was getting ready to come back to Beantown, my kitty Sascha was getting upset. He tries to sabotage my packing whenever I get ready to leave. It breaks my freakin' heart. Here he is trying to keep me...
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My new Grub Street class "The Smart Page-Turner Strikes Back" has been confirmed for Sunday nights this fall at Grub HQ in downtown Boston. The class topics are things my students have specifically asked me to cover, like how to create good villains, how to generate conflict, how to handle multiple plot threads, etc.

Here's the official description:

How do write popular fiction with literary...
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Did a whole lotta work tonight, but got no fiction written. Lots of magazine work done stuff like that. Time for Comic books, wine, and bed. Then fiction in the AM.

Working on novel, turning rough draft into not-as-rough-draft of Chapter 8. Ah, the glamor of being a writer.

Hey... just had a fun interview with George Hardy... the star of TROLL 2, one of the worst movies ever made. Great Fun!

Oh... my... GAWD! Creepy vintage ads...

http://www.retrocomedy.com/2009/07/15-creepiest-vintage-ads-of-all-time.html

Went from 60 F and cloudy in Boston to 103 and humid in Charleston, SC. Digging in for the summer!