They say that everybody's a little Irish on St. Patrick's Day, but since I'm a little Irish all year long, I find the holiday to be a bit of a bother. Maybe it's because I'm colorblind, and have trouble telling green apart from certain oranges, reds, and browns. Or maybe it's the ridiculous conceit of [...]
The one thing I love more than a good beer recommendation? A good beer recommendation I can actually find. So when Constance Ann Fitzgerald, author of Trashland A Go-Go and fellow Petaluma resident, told me that I not only needed to try Rogue Brewing's Hazelnut Brown Nectar, but that they had it at Wilibees Market, [...]
Another crazy week. Not only did my anthology, The Book of Cthulhu, make it onto the Locus Magazine 2011 Recommended Reading List (Anthologies, Reprint), but it also got onto the 42nd Annual Locus Awards Ballot (Best Anthology). Best part: You don't have to be a Locus subscriber to vote (though subscriber votes count double), all [...]
Fourteen years old... and still stompin'!Eight years ago today, Madeline came into our lives. These days, it's hard to remember the time before Little Miss Underfoot, our opinionated canine companion, was a part of our daily routine, sharing everything from road trips to routine workdays with Jennifer and myself. Of course, getting older comes with [...]
Another week gives way to another weekend. And what a busy week it was. I seem to be coordinating and correcting a ton of projects right now, having just wrapped up Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six, and working concurrently on Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the [...]
The Holiday season is here, evidenced by the lit-up tree in my living room, the boat parade tooting along the Petaluma River, and Jennifer's stockpile of toy donations preventing me from accessing my turntable and bookshelves T through Z. Christmas chaos... not to mention carols, shopping, and panic... will soon be unavoidable.So tonight, in honor [...]
I started the day out right, wandering downtown with Maddie and Jennifer after breakfast, stopping by Acre for a bittersweet (soy) mocha, checking out the dia de los muertos window displays, and then heading back home for some serious reading. Now I'm enjoying a Sanctuary--a Belgian-style Dubbel from Hood River, Oregon's Full Sail Brewing--with music [...]
We're over at Jan and Randy's for veggieburgers and the baseball game. I'm having a New Belgium Lips of Faith Super Cru. Super Cru pours ruby-golden with a full, quickfalling head leaving tendrils of lacing. Crisp pearskin on the nose. Sweet and fruity up front, bright and boozy with a quick Fat Tire bitter along [...]