If you haven’t seen Thor, you should go. It was hilarious, over the top, with lots of cool action and fantastic visuals. Everything a comic book movie should be. Take the kids, they will enjoy it. Jeff Goldblum was to die for. Chris Hemsworth has spectacular comedic timing. Cate Blanchett was amazing, Idris Elba was
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Lurve and Goodreads
We received several messages informing us that today is the last day to vote in Goodreads books award thingie for seminfinals and could we please post the links. At this point we’re kind of blase about it, because we are Susan Lucci of Goodreads. We’ve been nominated like 8 times, and we never win or
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Validating Experience
“You are so bad. Why did you dis the whole region? Don’t you want to sell books there?” Not if I have to lie about what I experienced. Redacted E Hall Hts, Sylva, NC is a single family home that contains 624 sq ft and was built in 1942. It contains 2 bedrooms and 1
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On Identity and Buggies vs Carts
Gwenda Bond linked an interesting article from Southern Cultures. The author, Meredith McCarroll, who comes from Western North Carolina, talks about her efforts to blend in and hide her cultural heritage and eventual acceptance of who she is. Yet while I was proud of my home, I was also learning that powerful stereotypes about Appalachia
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Na zdorovie!
Dear BDH, we do listen to you, in case you were wondering. 🙂
Terminal Alliance by Jim Hines
I live on military SF set in deep space. You know, the kind where there are massive ships and dramatic space battles, and a small deadly team of space marines or space sailors is caught in the grinder of war and forced to become heroes almost against their will. It’s big and epic, but oh
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Gym Membership
Remember how I said that we had a lot of work on the book to do today? Which is why we delegated some tasks. Gym person with a sweet smile: Are you looking for me? Me: Yes. My daughter called to cancel her gym membership because we are moving to San Marcos. She told you
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Purty colors
Today I have no content, as we desperately need to work on the book, so here are in progress pictures of the bedroom color. It started as mustard yellow. There was a lot of mustard yellow everywhere, even on the ceiling. The color is Simply Posh by Behr. I love it. I walked into it
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Failure of Sophistication
Our paint choices are eclectic. Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder. Rich people are not weird, they are eccentric. In a similar vein, since we’re writers who are designated to be creative and odd, we chose our paint with an eclectic, discerning eye, as opposed to throwing whatever color struck our fancy on
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Itchy throat
I think I am allergic to something. I don’t know if it’s dust, mold, pet dandruff, but my throat is just itching and irritated all the damn time now. I actually went to the doctor and got instructions to use Flonase and Mucinex. None of which is helping my throat. Still hurts especially on the
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Catching up with the Guild
Once upon a time the Guild was an upscale hotel on the edge of Buckhead. Tall buildings didn’t weather magic well, and the hotel proved no exception. Its shiny tower had broken off and toppled, leaving a five-story stub. The guild put a makeshift roof on it, cleaned it up a bit, and called it
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We bought a house
We closed today. ::lies down:: OMG, it’s over.
