Neil Gaiman has a weblog!  How cool is that?  Oh the things you discover when you do some random late night link surfing.

There are a bunch of very odd things about writing an American Gods story, it seems. It's been a couple of years since I've been to that place, and it hasn't changed at all...

The hardest thing is Shadow, who is, I would like to go on record as saying, the damnedest protagonist. He doesn’t talk much (which means that other people talk a lot more around him) and he goes along with things, or at least accepts things, which doesn’t leave a lot of room for arguing, and he’s smarter than he shows, but he’s very happy not to show it. And he doesn’t really want anything – even in this story, he’s a drifter and a tourist who starts out trying to earn a little money, and then rapidly needs to stay alive. Beautiful women, and nice women, seem to like him, and mostly he barely notices and even when he does he doesn't do anything about it. All of which is frustrating, from an auctorial point of view.

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just spending a lazy Sunday with a cup of hot chocolate and Once Upon a Time in China II.

1:43:37 PM  #  

does anyone know of a service for weblogs that will allow me to post the interest rate of 10 year Treasury bonds, updated daily?  I know Yahoo! posts it but I really don't feel like mucking with Radio internals to be able to deliver it to this page.  Maybe one of you folks out there in webland knows a better way?
10:45:40 AM  #  

Lost Baggage. Actually, I've had my bags lost several times...and I've found that the best way to pack is to put all your "essentials" in your carry-on or in your pocket.  By essentials, I mean keys, ID, money, credit cards spare contact lenses, glasses, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant.  Anything else can be replaced with relative ease.  But no one is going to fill out a glasses prescription in Evansville, Indiana at 3 in the morning.  Still, it sucks to have to learn that lesson the hard way.  And every time my bags get lost I find a new thing to add to my "essential" items list. via [DrunkAndRetired.com]
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