I have survived another trip around the sun.
Tags
- a series of tubes
- bad monkeys
- bargains
- bestseller lists
- birthday
- books and authors
- cat videos
- cooking
- deep thoughts
- dollhouse
- editing
- family
- fool on the hill
- germany
- honors and awards
- indielove
- interviews
- joss whedon is my master now
- keeping score
- livejournal
- lovecraft country
- matt's test kitchen
- movies
- my work ethic
- NEA
- news clippings
- new year's
- pausing to take note of history
- personal anecdotes
- politics
- product placement
- public appearances
- publication day
- reviews
- roller derby
- set this house in order
- sge
- signed copies
- stranger than fiction
- the mirage
- translations
- tv
- unipodia as the key insight
- what's next?
- what the cool kids are talking about
More of Me
The Usual Suspects
- Lisa Gold: Research Maven
- Megan McArdle
- What Would Phoebe Do
- Popehat
- Virginia Postrel
- Dynamist Blog
- Alyssa Rosenberg
- John McWhorter
- Raph Koster
- FiveThirtyEight
- Complications Ensue
- Film Critic Hulk
- The Last Psychiatrist
- John Crowley
- Gwenda Bond
- Matthew Yglesias
- David Friedman
- Boardgamegeek
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Everett Kaser Software
- Messy Nessy
- Fredrik deBoer
Although late but … happy birthday and many more successful years!
Dear Mr. Ruff,
I wish you a pleasant new year! As I just come to notice, your birthday is the same as mine! I hope you had a happy one. Congratulations!
Besides: what a beautiful hedgehog! What’s his name? Did he celebrate a special day, too? Or do you just feel kind of related with this little guy? Well, I really think him a good symbol of what one sometimes wants to be like: just safe inside our little wall of spikes…
Write on!