An argument concerning Christianity and cannibalism sparked me to do a bit of quick online research. Imagine my amazement to find THIS:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1080256/Cannibal-cult-mother-skinned-son-eat-flesh-gets-9-years-jail.html?ITO=1490

I am utterly shocked and disgusted.

A look at the Grail Movement’s website and a reference in wikipedia are also very suggestive that, yes, there is cannibalism and torture condoned by some Christian cults.

To do this to children…. To abuse the elderly. Like I said, disgusting.

This was all done with stills, some 3000 of them. Cool!

Today we had to go to “the big city” to get an LCD screen still under warranty on the road to being replaced. One word to describe the experience–exhausting. Traffic was frenetic and rude with people cutting in and out, no prior signal for warning. Is there some death wish out there? At 65 mph, it seems prudent to be a little more conservative with your own and others’ lives. Cars aren’t weapons of mass destruction, or shouldn’t be. Slow the [[expletive deleted]] down, be a bit more patient, and be considerate that the lives at stake are more than just your own!!

End Rant

My favorite author events are those where the author might read a passage of the book, then stop, look up, and say something like: “You know, the morning I wrote this particular section was right after I spent a night shoveling water.”

all alone, lost in “writer’s trance,” there comes a jolt!

I came across a title over at a critique group that rung a bell.  I was very sure that I’d seen this title before.  I took a peek.  Yep.  I had seen this one before.  Some four or five years previous.  Same title, same start, same exact story, different critique venue, but same flaws. 
…Same flaws. [...]

We are moved.  Including animals, plants (the whole garden), furniture, et cetera.  We’re still having DSL problems.  Sometimes it’s there; sometimes it’s not there, at all.  It’s no fun.  And Verizon has even sent in the “big guns” to try to troubleshoot it.  It’s a gremlin, I’m sure, because it just keeps doing strange anomalies [...]

I’ll be offline for a week, starting May 12. We’re — family and I — are moving to a new home.

I have written…or, more accurately, am writing one book in first person. The only reason that book is being written in first person is that, when I try to change it to my favored third person point-of-view, it loses its snap. Somehow, “The fumes he exuded made my eyes water” has more zing [...]

no, I didn’t get eaten by my novel