Reading: Year's Best SF 13
Music: Matthew Sweet
TV/Movie: Futurama
Link o' the Day: Archy and Mehitabel


Hope you'e not expecting deep thoughts today. We're off to a slow start today--recovering from the Attack of the Grey Weekend.

Grey weekends are always tough on us. Our energy levels are never where they should be. It becomes a weekend of fighting the yawnies and trying to avoid accidental napping--or maybe just giving in and tumbling into blissful slumber. I blame a combination of the color of the world (or lack thereof) and atmospheric pressure.

So it was a bit of a lazy weekend--not that we didn't stir ourselves up a few times. We hit the bowling alley at one point and broke in the new bowling balls. My scores were slightly better this week, but my overall game is still incredibly uneven.

Saturday we hit a supposed Rhode Island icon, Iggy's Doughboys and Chowder House in Warwick, but found it very disappointing. The doughboys were heavy and dense, the burger very greasy, the clam cakes sans clams, and what kind of chowder house in Rhode Island doesn't serve Rhode Island-style clam chowder? We've had better. I can think of three clam shacks in Misquamicut that are better without even trying.

Sunday we got together with Margaret's mother and hit a diner in Groton, CT called the Oh Boy Diner. This place I can recommend. It's a remodeled Denny's with a similar-style menu and service, but what struck me were the posters of old retro-style robot-and-rocket-ship toys and Flash Gordon posters. I'm a sucker for that retro-future look. Good chops, too.

I got a little bit of writing done. Maybe not as much as I'd have liked, but some anyway. Working on a long story, and I wrote up a new entry over at Red Rocket Station (dot com) entitled "Visions of the Future I Could Do Without" which is actually kind of making fun of some of the retro-future tropes that show up from time to time. Blame it on repeated viewings of Amazon Women on the Moon.

One little bit of cool news. In a few weeks I'll be taking part in a new group blog. There aren't many details available yet. At the moment there are about nine of us and we'll be contributing on a bi-weekly schedule and feature the occasional guest blogger. More updates as the new site develops.

And it's back to work. I did a little over the weekend--mostly TumbleTap related stuff. Today's tasks include sending the medical journal to the printer, putting together a couple of more pages for the SFWA Bulletin, and prepping a lot of photos for a couple of different book projects.

Gonna be another grey day, tho. But we've girded our loins (woo!...loins!) and we're gonna teach that Old Grey Beastie what's what.

What?

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What helps one get through a grey day? That's right!

Light verse.




Specifically, the light verse of Don Marquis and more specifically, Archy and Mehitabel, Archy, the talented cockroach poet, and Mehitabel, the cat who is the reincarnation of Cleopatra herself. Get a little background on our heroes, and sample some of Archy's fine verse. Here's a sample:

listen archy she said i
have been so many different
people in my time and met
so many prominent gentlemen i
wont lie to you or stall i
do get my dates mixed sometimes
think of how much i have had a
chance to forget and i have
always made a point of not
carrying grudges over
from one life to the next archy

(Thanks go to Scott Edelman for having recently brought this link to light on FB.)

Enjoy!