Yay of the day!

Temple at some point in the past year or so has restored its online archives for the Temple Times, of which I was associate editor between 2000 and 2004. I’m so happy about this, because it means I can restore that portion of my online clip file.
I discovered this when I had this random notion [...]

Progress apace

Updates continue… have the beginnings of my blogroll, mostly faith-related at this time but will be expanding gradually.
The archives are slowly coming up to par. Much of what I’m doing right now is migrating livejournal posts in from my old Deviathan journal and then editing both old gallycat posts and deviathan posts to reflect the [...]

Ok, ok, Uncle! UNCLE!

I have a post up at today’s Daily Episcopalian. I have another being published tomorrow, that’s kinda sorta part two, and in it, I out a small percentage of the blogs I write at, when the spirit siezes me to do so.
Part one is here:What about Generation X? Cause quite frankly, I’m sick of that [...]

Dear Buddha*

I’d like a pony and a plastic rocket and a book deal.
*This is a reference to the Serenity captain, Mal, who, having no idea what to do while kneeling at a Buddhist shrine, decides to pray the only way he knows how—by praying like a little kid.

I’m still alive..

in spite of car problems, physical therapy healing everything but my wallet, and feeling way beaten up by life lately…
will post more soon. been driving back and forth to front royal every day this week, and i know that’s why I’m so tired…
Anyhow, I’m on the Episcopal Cafe’s Daily feed, with an essay on a [...]

The winning story

So, tonight I won a Bronze SNAP Excel Award, which is pretty prestigious in Association Publications world, for this story, published last May.
You can read it here.

Not that I would move to New York…

…but I wish i could take a sabbatical there to do this
course on personal essay writing–because, dammit, that's where my
writing _works,_ and I'd love to make a living at it.

All you journalists show your faces

As chance would have it, my AP style guide fell open to “religious movements.”
liberal In general, avoid this word as a descriptive
classification in religion. It has objectionable implications to many
believers.
I object!!!
Acceptable alternate descriptions include activist, more flexible,
and broadview.
No wonder we don't get any press coverage. The AP has no idea what to
do with us.
That said, [...]

now that's some rain.

The house is way too quiet without DFH around, and it's not like he's loud.
I went to bed at 2 in the morning, which is totally wack.
I think I need to dehormonize for a while. I'm speaking too bluntly
and everything annoys the piss out of me.
But in the good news department, I've now got enough [...]

Wow. Torsion.

I have been working on a review of the new Torsion album, Faded, for the
city paper, and alligottasay right now is that this is finally worthy of
their live act. I was always a little sheepish about not reviewing HSM, but
this is why I waited.
It's only weakness, to my ear, as a hard dark rock album, [...]

Fun on the mall

Yesterday we went to the rally in front of the White House, which was really awesome. There were SO many people there. Never did catch up with the groups I wanted to interview, though I had a nice one with Chester County for Peace. Good mix of old and young, surprisingly little race diversity, though. [...]

Multipass

I just turned in my first ever multisourced feature greater than 1,200
words. It came in just under 2,500 words.
I really hope that the editor doesn't come back to me on Wednesday
saying “This sucks! Rewrite!” It's never happened before, but that's
not a reason to think it won't start now.
Tomorrow I'm driving down to Richmond to work [...]

Well, that's neat.

Top story in naked city. Result: my article on faith and politics has
the file name: naked.shtml.
But hey!!! Super nifty. If you're interested in the other side of the
faith dialogue (yes, it IS two-way) and live in Philly, please check
this out. Jim Wallis is the author of “God's Politics: Why the Right
is Wrong and the Left [...]

whoa, I am a horror writer.

I found the first six pages of 'The Smell of Dead Things' yesterday. Read it aloud to DFH and the look on his face when I got to the part about the subway ride was priceless.
now to find the other six pages and to figure out what to do about the coda ending.

frag all

ok, screw short stories. i have got to give long form a try, even if it kills me. cause short stories are killing me. i hate all of them, and the few that leave my hand to get out into the real world get rejections that say “good writing, not for us.” FEH! FEH! FEH! [...]