I am in Las Vegas, covering the World Series of Poker for the official PokerStars blog, and it's a 12 hour-a-day job that occasionally keeps me up with the "racing writer's brain" well past four in the morning.
I've decided that it's in the best interests of the Geek wire if I take a month off, until the middle of August at the... Read More
Great job on the WSOP coverage. The Pokerstars blog was one of the first places I hit each day (and usually many times throughout the day). It was really hard to not get emotionally invested in some of the players with you writing about them.
I woke early this morning, after just five hours of sleep, to take Nolan to school early. I tried to stay awake and just start my work day, but I was really too tired, so I went back to sleep around nine, and just woke up a few minutes ago, around eleven fifteen, from a really upsetting dream.
Dreams like that definitely suck. Woke up with a freakin stress headache this morning thanks to a nightmare. Thought my house had collapsed on top of me.
Wow. I'm amazed at the amount of detail you can recall from a dream - I'm usually good for about two sentences worth.
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You didn't ask, and I'm no expert, but I'd say your dream is just you worrying about this position you're in as leader and protector of a family. That's a lot of responsibility, as you clearly realize.
But I don't think you need to worry so much, and here's why:
1. You put your arms over them, which suggests to me that you'd die to protect them, and unless you've got a death wish, that implies you'll do everything in your power including, but not limited to, dying to protect them.
2. You don't get to be leader and protector of a family on your own - someone has to believe, without a doubt, you're capable of it. I'm sure Anne and Nolan both do. You're in that position because you've been deemed worthy.
But that dream would scare the hell out of me, and I bet I'll have similar ones someday. Hope you're not upset for too long.
A couple of days ago, I worked on booking a venue for Boston. I have three solid recommendations for Boston, and I've made contact with two of them. One totally blew me off, which was insulting and lame, the other one was supposed to call yesterday but didn't, and it looks like I'll be going to the third place, who at least has treated me... Read More
Oh gee ya know eh? We're not that much different from americans, there's just fewer of us.
And B a friend of mine's family runs the last indie owned book store in Kingston (Between Montreal and Toronto.)
Just last month they had a signing with Lederhosen Lucil.
If you're gonna be in the area anyway would you interested? I might be able to pull some strings.
I saw Silent Hill yesterday, and it's surprisingly good.
It's flawed, and requires some serious suspension of disbelief in a few places, but overall I felt like I got my money's worth. The script, which was written by Roger Avary, is very good, and very deep for this genre.
I guess hardcore fans of the games are all worked up about one thing or another... Read More
I'm coming to Montreal and Boston iat the end of June / beginning of July, and I may be doing readings and signings in each city, if enough people are interested.
And now, some free advice: if you get a chance to jam some papers down in the kitchen trashcan and cut your thumb all the way to the bone on a dog food can's lid . . .
Ok come on, you've got a CON of ____ .... actually you seem to be missing a CON stat. In that case it is going to take you a very long time to heal. I suggest seeking external help.
My friend Shane posted a really cool photo on his blog, in an effort to use a bit of distributed-computing-fu to determine where the photo was taken.
I suck at the historical sleuthing thing, but I suck less at the making-up-stories thing, so I suggested to Shane that bloggers draw inspiration from the photo, and post short stories of their own.
just read your story, it's very good. photo is a bit on the creepy side, but many from that era were. maybe the whole world was slightly creepy back then.
Here's a bit from the music post, which stands on its own, I think. A few songs came on iTunes while I was writing this morning, and noted them, and wrote their associated memories. Here are three of them:
Still Ill - When I was in my very early teens,... Read More
More music at my blog today. For you lazy fuckers who won't click:
I was already into Pink Floyd a little bit by this time, and a casual fan of The Dark Side of the Moon, and Wish You Were Here. I don't remember how I ended up with Animals, but I had the CD and a portable CD player (kids: way back in 1990,... Read More
i interviewed John Schneider a while ago and i asked him about a movie you two did called tthe farm, he said i was the first person ever to mention that to him. i know its not exactly a classic but i still get shivers when i think about the worms in the apple and the mother sewing herself.
Listen, I know you're busy but I have to ask-
I noticed you've been talking about music lately and I just started a new (unlaunched) podcast with my partner Linntate. So far we've interviewed Robin Guthrie (founding member of the Cocteau Twins) and Wanda Jackson (The Queen of Rockabilly, and girlfriend of Elvis).
Would you be at all interested in doing a quick, like 10-15 minute interview in which we talk about what you're listening to and music in general? The setup of the show is basically this: We gather songs from artist and label websites that are free downloads anyway, we put them in a folder and play a random song followed by an Ebert/Roper style review. It's called "Robot Record Party" and should be lots of fun.
Anyway, if you're at all interested my e-mail is sebastian6 at robot record party dot com.
