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11-yr-old: “Julie Andrews is never going to sing me to sleep.”‬

‪Me: “You could listen to her singing while falling asleep…”‬
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11: “Not in person! And that’s something I’m just going to have to deal with…”‬

Veep (2012-2019) is a really important show. If you have reservations about a woman president, you should watch it. Not because it shows a woman doing a good job as president (it’s a comedy—everyone’s comically terrible at their jobs) but because it normalizes the concept.‬

Also, if you just want the power trip of watching a woman be president, Veep is awesome.‬ Continue reading “Presidents and Miscellany”

The earthquake simulator at OMSI no longer sings Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move,” and this is deeply wrong, so Daniel is singing it for me.‬

I binged all of “I Draw, You Cook” over the last few days, and now I kind of want to write furry fan fiction about all the Tasty chefs.‬

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I’ve been watching Veep (2012-2019) & I have to wonder how much funnier it might have been as it was coming out. At this point, it’s kind of gently humorous, but the outlandish situations seem… tame. Mostly, I’m just enjoying the wish-fulfillment of watching a woman president.‬ Continue reading “Tasty Chefs, Veep, and Doubts to Donuts”

According to my spreadsheet, this month I passed the mark of having written one million words of fiction.

Ah, late night video hour, when you somehow end up watching a Harvard class day speech by Andy Samberg.

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The five-year-old has decided to dress up as a pirate for his dentist appointment, because he knows he’ll get to pick a reward from a treasure chest at the end. Continue reading “Speeches, Pirates, Shakespeare-ish”

Always Be My Maybe (starring Ali Wong & Randall Park, with a notable guest appearance by Keanu Reeves) is totally delightful, beginning to end.‬

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I’ve really missed working on an Otters In Space novel. Trugger always surprises me, and it’s so delightful. Continue reading “From Keanu Reeves to Flowers and Back”

My brain was so excited about starting a new Otters In Space novel that I couldn’t sleep and thumb-typed a whole bunch on my phone in bed, and when I did fall asleep, I kept writing all night; unfortunately my devices are notoriously bad at recording words I write in my dreams.‬ Continue reading “Starting a New Otters In Space!”

I’ve been seeing  a lot of interest in my robot stories, ever since “The Three Laws of Social Robotics” came out in Analog.  So this page is a guide to where readers can find more of my stories about Maradia’s robots. Continue reading “Maradia’s Robots”

‪I never dream about my house. I dream weird new houses, which made sense when it looked like we’d have to sell this house and move away. But this morning, I think my brain tried to dream about my house. The result was a strange hybrid of the bones of the house I grew up in, set on the hill where I live now, with all of the furniture stripped away and stolen. Continue reading “House Dreams”