his afternoon I finished reading1 to the audio book version of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game. It was my second complete audio book, the first being Misery. Both books were read by Lindsay Crouse, and in both cases, I’d describe the reading much close to “voice acting” than a simple reading. Back in the day this might…
espite the fact that the Little Miss is only 18 months old, she already knows a bunch of songs. Some of these are snippets of the songs I sing to her instead of the traditional lullabies. (Think: “Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day” or “Far Away Places.”) But recently,…
everal people have asked me if I am aware of the attempted hack of Evernote today. Yes, I am. I found out about the attempt the way most people found out: through their blog post, Twitter announcement and direct email. A few people have asked what I take to be a very natural question given…
wanted today to be one of those lazy Saturday’s where I didn’t really have to do anything, but that was just wishful thinking. I tried to “sleep in” this morning, and the kids cooperated a little, allowing us to sleep in until almost 7am. Once I was up, I spent a few hours this morning…
tephen King’s official website revealed the cover to the forthcoming Doctor Sleep, King’s sequel to The Shining which comes out this fall, some 35+years since the original novel came out. I’m really looking forward to this one. Fortunately, he has another book, Joyland, coming out in June to ease the gap between now and September. Funny how I’m…
‘ve written in the past how most stories and books typically classified as “scary” don’t really scare me. I can count on one hand the number of stories I’ve read that have sent shivers down my spine. There’s Harlan Ellison’s “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” (and that elevator scene in particular). There’s Ray Bradbury’s “The…
he Little Man knows that I like airplanes. I think that’s probably where he gets his fondness for aircraft. It may very well be an inheritable trait. It’s probably also why, when he did a recent art project in school, he decided to make an airplane for me. This piece is going on my desk at…
elly has been hooked on Army Wives recently. She watches a few episodes each on Netflix via Apple TV. When the kids are asleep and I am in bed trying to read, but even with my noise-cancelling headset, I can still hear the show, and tend to get sucked into the stories. I don’t want to get…