long post making up for june slack

New shoes. Nothing says I’m tough better than blue skulls surrounded by red, yellow, and green hearts.

Back in Georgia from Ohio where I was working to get the Wick website finished so that it can go live soon. I will post a link to that when they do go live. The Wick authors page, which took me about an additional 25 hours than I originally planned, has some good links to journals, prizes, publishers, etc…

I am very glad to be back. I’m a pretty nervous flier and the thought of being ground bound for at least a few months is very comforting indeed. Yesterday the entire 18th row of Airtran flight 205 was entirely hysterical. The two people next to me were holding each other’s hands so tight that I don’t think they’ll ever get the blood back to their knuckles. And across the row from me there were two very logical-looking 40-somethings that just completely panicked when we were at cruising altitude. Every little acceleration was accompanied by them jerking their heads up from their NYTimes suduko and scanning around frantically to see who else was alarmed. Not even my old standby US Weekly-stocked with new photographs of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and Jessica Simpson’s lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks without going into Kidney failure-kept me calm. Obviously we landed safe enough. More than enough to feel glad to be back.

Two very cool "you ride the bike and we'll film the video in one take" music videos. The first is Bat for Lashes, and very creepy. The second is Rumble Strips and pretty damn cute.