Made a little more progress on chapter 12 of my novel today. Having my writers' group meeting forced me to work on it, and I'm starting to get the feel of the novel back.

Saw X2 for the Xth time today. (That's Roman numeral X.) This time it was at a discount theater, though -- the first IX times were at a regular, first-run theater. What can I say? I love the movie. From the Nightcrawler attack on the White House at the beginning to the Phoenix image... read more »

My letter about Nobody Gets the Girl has been put on the book's website, along with a response.

I've been away from my novel so long (more than two months) that it's difficult getting back into writing it. I wrote a page last week, but I'm not really happy with it, and so I've been avoiding work on it. Grrr.

I hate it when i wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep even though I'm tired.

I've scanned in a whole bunch of my (mostly) autographed photos with Star Trek stars. Click here to see them.

Eugene Volokh tells of a lullaby remembered from his childhood that has more lyrics than he remembered. I sang for a couple of years in BYU's Russian Choir. (My Russian was not that good. Neither was my singing. But I could sing in Russian better than the average student.) The choir director said that Russian folk songs were either about... read more »

Watched an episode of Strong Medicine on the Lifetime network this evening because my sister Carolyn's friend was in it. Unfortunately, we missed most of the part she was in because I'd accidentally unplugged the satellite cord from the receiver while trying to get the VCR working properly. Carolyn's friend did fine in the bits we saw. But, let's just... read more »

Last night I watched the episode "Hush" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season four. It reminded me how much I miss that show. Imaginative television at its best. This particular episode is remembered for the fact that for most of the episode, there is no spoken dialogue. I really liked season four. The first half more than the end, though,... read more »

Today I read a novel called Nobody Gets the Girl. It's by James Maxey, who went to Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp one of the years before I did. It's a fun and imaginative book. Comic-book hero stuff. I basically read it straight through. Since comic books used to have letters pages where they would publish letters from fans... read more »