The DDJ

August 28, 2008 | 3 Comments

Damned Day Job
Yes, I have one of those, albeit from home and entrepreneurial in nature. Actually, I have 2 money-making gigs. I also have 2 non money-making gigs: the Tax Deductions’ mother and this here book thing I hope will start paying for itself in a little while.
I have a DDJ for [...]

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27

Book Review: Married to a Rock Star

August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

Married to a Rock Star
by Tami Parrington
published by Prairieview Publishing via Lulu
I read a great review of this book and went immediately forthwith to purchase it. I don’t know whether I’m more upset with the book or with the review, but let’s just say this would’ve been a wallbanger had it not been on [...]

Aug

25

Oooh, shiny!

August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

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24

“Little Lion Face”

August 24, 2008 | 5 Comments

Thmazing posted this poem by May Swenson (1919-1989), Mormon poet, in April. I don’t usually “get” poetry, but I sure as heck got this and it is…beautiful. I’m going to have to invest some time in her work.

Little lion face
I stopped to pick
among the mass of thick
succulent blooms, the twice
streaked flanges of your [...]

Aug

23

Pretty women

August 23, 2008 | 5 Comments

Disclaimer: I can’t stand Hillary Clinton. At all. But… I find her very attractive in this picture.
I’m not even going to chalk it up to the hair (very nice) or necklace (meh–not a fan of chunk jewelry). Perhaps the smile? Yes, that’s it. It looks…genuine. Happy. Even as [...]

Aug

22

More steampunk, please!

August 22, 2008 | 14 Comments

I read a lot of Neal Stephenson’s stuff and the only thing he’s written that I cautiously suspect might possibly could be classified steampunk is Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, but I still don’t know if that makes it steampunk because it’s set in the future with Victorian aesthetics instead of in [...]

Aug

21

Spiritual erotica

August 21, 2008 | 11 Comments

My book doesn’t have a genre. It’s too many things, but two things it is are spiritual and erotic. Okay, so in my mind, I think, “spiritual erotica.” I like it.
Anyhoo, I would like to direct your attention to today’s Thmazing’s Thmusings post by Eric Jepson on “The Erotic in LDS Lit, [...]

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