Our first foray into the wild world of employment taught us the importance of lying. Every day, we’d tell two whoppers, over and over. First we’d declare, looking the customer in the eye, that the pastries we sold weren’t fattening. Then we’d say, yes, of course we’re Danish. The pastries were filled with butter and sugar, and we’re quite Hungarian-mutt. Not a drop of Danish anything, unless you count the occasional craving for aebleskiver. Working with customers is rough. People who seem perfectly normal aren’t. Two middle-aged ladies wandered in to a branch of a well-known booksellers. Helmet-coiffed and enthusiastically […]

Due to circumstances (mostly) beyond our control, fiction writing has been a luxury around our house lately. We could bore you with a litany of excuses (some of which are, even by our standards, quite creative), but we won’t. The bottom line is that we have to get back to work, and this requires a kick in the butt. Hence, we are informally doing NaNoWriMo. Informal because while we’re signed up and have made a donation, we suspect we won’t remember to post to the NaNo site on a regular basis. Since we are strongly motivated by things like guilt,

Sometimes we admire our self-restraint. Like when we read an interview with Cory Doctorow. Our inclination is (usually) to copy and paste the thing in its entirety. It certainly would be easier that way. But then you (our lovely readers) might miss out on discovering a new and different site. We’re sure you wouldn’t want that. So, once again, we’re limiting ourself to a few choice quotes while feeling confident you’ll go off and read the whole thing at your leisure. And we do recommend reading this particular article. Not just because we strongly support Cory Doctorow, but because his

We never meet most of the people who impact our lives. The author who made your realize there’s magic in your head. The singer who made you feel like there was someone out there who truly got how you feel. And the person who brought those artists into your world. John Peel was one of the final group. While we’ll never forget the impact of Casey Kasem on our lives (when one grows up in a town with two radio stations of note, Kasem is akin to a god), we think it was John Peel who will have the lasting