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Posted on 2/23/2010 at 11:17:13 AM
This is simultaneously the thing I hate and love about horror stories of a certain era, in this case as spoken by a character in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan.
She was sitting up in bed, and I listened to her as
she spoke in her beautiful voice, spoke of things which even now
I would not [...]
Posted on 2/19/2010 at 11:53:19 AM
Spending so much time snowed in this winter revived a nascent interest in cooking, and over the past two months, I began to play around with recipe sites and magazine—all of which, over the past six weeks or so, have been flogging recipes for cassoulet.
Until this, I remembered the word only as a shorthand for [...]
Posted on 2/19/2010 at 11:28:52 AM
Mermaid In Exile, the previous name for this space, never seems to have got off the ground. So welcome to Our Cynical Omelet, future home of such vignettes as I choose to share. Enjoy!
Posted on 7/29/2009 at 6:12:59 PM
Every time I see that CrunchGear did a profile of my area, I think I’m hallucinating.
Posted on 7/7/2009 at 6:30:21 AM
Busy day today, if I don’t chicken out: today it is my intention to go to the courthouse and legally change my middle name.
The name change thing is, literally, the oldest thing on my to-do list: I remember pushing it very hard when I was 12, and I know it had been a desire of [...]