My favourite thing about Giftmas is the presents. I like giving them, and I love getting them. For me, it’s all about the loot. And sharing. Something in there about sharing, too.

To celebrate the holidays, I’ve decided to share…linkage! Delicious linkage filled with Giftmas, Christmas and atheistic capitalist rants of joy!

To open, I present you with my favourite Christmas song: “Fairytale of New York”, by the Pogues.

It has, hands down, Continue reading »

Lydia with mousie

Pictured left is my kitten, Lydia, patiently waiting for me to throw her mousie for the kazillionth time. And by patiently, I mean she will wait a few seconds before resulting to the tactics outlined by The Oatmeal in Cat vs Internet. He gets it. Perfectly.

Cats will try anything – anything – to get your attention.  (Lydia looks adorable in her Batcat costume, though it’s still a bit big for her.)

A few days after we got her she began to teach us fetch. At first we thought it was a fluke, but Lydia’s kept it up – accompanied with death defying acrobatics.⁽¹⁾

Here’s a minute and a half of Lyd playing fetch. This is take 2342903849 so she’s a bit sleepy by the end.

Lydia is nine months old as of today, and I love her to bits, but when I want to get any work done I must close the door, or risk attack for not paying enough attention. My furniture suffers for it, but there’s art in suffering, so I win out in the end, right? Continue reading »

Footnotes:

1. So engrossed in her mousie, she often leaps without looking first if there’s a place to land. It’s a good thing kittens are made of rubber. [↩]

I’m a writer. Being depressed is good for my art.

1. Literary Rejections on Display

The blog is written by a “published, award-winning author of fiction and creative nonfiction”, who, of course, continues to receive rejection letters.

Rejection letters – both form and with commentary – are sourced from the anonymous blog author as well as reader submitted rejections. Fascinating to see how each magazine, agent and publisher responds. Continue reading »