…but I am on a serious organizational roll.

This is, naturally, out of desperate necessity. I have a book to write and a messy house that stands in the way. It’s one thing to be shuffling through disorganized shelves searching for that one book that describes how the Fugger family of merchants acquired the silver mines of Tyrol and subsequently lured the Holy Roman Emperor into ruin; it’s quite another to be building costumes on the living room coffee table because the studio’s a wreck.

I’m beginning to think of this project in theatrical terms: as an extended tech week with additional writing.

And you know what we call tech week? Hell week.

Ah, but don’t worry. It’ll all be over in May.

Now, for the organization that doesn’t involve scraps of fabric and pumpkin guts:

I’ll be blogging about writing-related items here and cross posting them to my Live Journal account. On Live Journal, I’ll also be blogging updates to my 101 things in 1001 days list. As soon as I get this shit together and that shit together (because lord knows I am incapable of getting all of my shit together in a single location), I’ll be back to food and feline blogging on Belly Timber, and green blogging on Walking Distance.

Do not expect a post on every blog every day, because, really, do I sound even remotely that organized?

And I wish to share my pixel-stains with you.

It seems only fitting that my first post to the new, bloggified version of my personal domain be one wherein I send people off to read things. Since I’ve just started here, there’s not much yet to offer, but I’ve pulled two goodies out of the hopper and I’ll have more goodies in days to come. In fact, I’ve a plan for goodies. A rather crunchy goodie-laden plan, if I do say so myself, but at the moment it is Top Sekrit, so you’ll just have to check back later. (Damn evil of me, yes?)

Meantime, a small assortment for your pixel-stained viewing pleasure:

On this site: Celaeno, a poem originally published in Spellbound, 2001.

Also on this site: An Interview with Tim Powers, originally published in 3SF’s Writers on Writing Series, 2002.

At Wheatland Press: The Happy Jumping Woman (PDF), a short story from Polyphony 5.

For other bits of online whimsy…

I’ve a small collection of illustrations up at The Fortean Bureau, each one a label for a rather unusual brew.

Belly Timber is the (mostly) food blog I write with my chef husband, and on occasion I wander off into fictional and meta-fictional realms. Here are a few of these food-related follies:

Poach Me Deadly, A tale of Passion and Poultry Warning: Puns. Many puns. Bad, hard-boiled puns, and gratuitous film noir references.

Rachael Ray for a Day: $40 A DAY the San Juan Island edition: A drama in three acts Yes, that Rachael Ray. The challenge was to duplicate a day from her hit show $40 a Day. Our challenge was to get through it without a serious overdose of The Perky.

Mighty Cheese Warriors: An Historical Perspective. This one requires a bit more explaination, but of all my online work it’s the most fitting entry for International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. In January of 2006, a certain food critic for a certain glossy magazine wrote a piece that dismissed the vast majority of food blogs as blogs no one would ever want to read. Calling them “cheese sandwich blogs,” he berated their authors for their boring “what I had for dinner” posts, and in doing so, implied that no food blogger could ever meet the standards set by such illustrious print journalists as himself. (And go figure, I’ve completely forgotten his name and what magazine he wrote for, so that says something about his illustriousness.)

Needless to say, food bloggers weren’t at all happy, and in the spirit of Hah, take that! Cheese Sandwich Day was born. On that day, food bloggers around the world blogged their cheese sandwiches, and they did so with verve and gusto and originality. The collected works of Cheese Sandwich Day far outshone all the desperate efforts of print-bound luddites to ridicule our passion and our expertise.

My contribution to the event comes via time machine from the distant future and from the Gastroblogia Central Archive. The transcript is of a speech by Jaques Rochefort Gouda, circa 4246 AD, on the occasion of the 2240th Anniversary of Cheese Sandwich Day. I think the citizens of Gastroblogia would get along quite well with pixel-stained technopeasants.