somber news

"WASHINGTON - The scientists who mind the Doomsday Clock moved it two minutes closer to midnight on Wednesday -- symbolizing the annihilation of civilization and adding the perils of global warming for the first time. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which created the Doomsday Clock in 1947 to warn the world of the dangers of nuclear weapons, advanced the clock to five minutes until midnight. It was the first adjustment of the clock since 2002."


And on a more hopeful note, I have achieved word count quota on both projects, and shot down another large chunk of the page proofs. And made stew. Stew is the path to world peace. Give everyone a bowl of stew and some fresh-baked bread with butter, and the world smiles. Or was that a Coke?

Am falling over going thud, now.

Art Buchwald

from cnn.com --

"Art Buchwald, who took humorous jabs at Washington politicians in decades of syndicated columns, has died at his Washington home, a friend said today. He was 81."


A loss. We need more DC-jabbers in the world, not fewer.

BREAKING NEWS: ARISIA 2008 -- SAVE THE DATE!

Why?

Because yours truly, LAG, is going to be Writer GoH.

I am Already Plotting. *evil laughter*

Boston/Cambridge, MA, for those of you not familiar with the convention. Books, gaming, costuming, media, and an all around Good Time.

And it's gonna be FOUR DAYS!

That's right, Friday January 18- Monday January 21 (Martin Luther King Day)


Details and Plots As They Happen.