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Don’t know how I missed this.

Or this:

so little space on the web.  From Off the Pink:

Music I’ve bought so far this year:

Bold is music I particularly love, italics is music I haven’t listened to yet.

Forty tracks a month are eMusic, the rest is iTunes.  I haven’t shopped Amazon’s download store yet.

Last night, I wrote about two thousand words before going to bed. 

The backlog is rising again.  I’m writing during lunch instead of reading, but my buying habits haven’t changing.  It would certainly help if I had an unbelievably long plane ride or two coming up.  Hear my prayer, O Ceiling Cat of Enterprise Software Sales!

1. The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
2. Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel, Frances and Joseph Gies
3. The Secret History of Moscow, Ekaterina Sedia
4. The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
5. Ha’penny, Jo Walton
6. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
7. In the Forest of Forgetting, Theodora Goss
8. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
9. My Mother the Cheerleader, Robert Sharenow (my wife went to school with him, his best friend is married to my wife’s best friend)
10. Johnny and the Dead, Terry Pratchett (probably on my son’s list more than mine)
11. Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen (new edition, substantially updated, and, so far, the only Book Every American Should Read)
12. Ptolemy’s Gate, Jonathan Stroud
13. Bear Daughter, Judith Berman (one of my favorite con panelists)
14. Impostors, George V. Higgins
15. Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link (actually, I’m about halfway through)
16. Skin Hunger, Kathleen Duey
17. The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, Walter Moers (halfway through, so far, it’s no Rumo)
18. Trial of Flowers, Jay Lake
19. The Guin Saga, Kaoru Kurimoto (I have no recollection of ordering this, strangely enough)
20. The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers
21. Lowlife, Luc Sante
22. By the Sword, Richard Cohen
23. The Curve of Binding Energy, John MacPhee
24. Ragamuffin, Tobias Buckell
25. Black Sheep, Ben Peek

There are a few more in the car, too, though I’m nowhere near my record.

The Pokemon shrine under my backlog shelf belongs to my nine-year-old, not me.  Those are his Spongebobs, too.

Picture by the fabulous Gavin Grant, Small Beer Press (publisher of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and others), and husband of the fabulous Kelly Link.  Theo and I had some wonderful conversations with both of them. 

Funny thing about this picture – when we posed for it, I thought I was standing right next to Chris, but as you see in the picture, I was actually about ten feet further back.  We’re actually about the same height, or maybe I’m a little taller…

Odd how photography lends itself to these perspective illusions.  Heck, a little further back, and we could do the standing-on-Chris’s-hand thing.