from the Booksigning Saturday at the Romantic Times Convention in Houston

HelenKay Dimon is a friend of this blog and has low friends in high places.

I attended the tail end of the Romantic Times Convention last week, and boy are my arms inflated.

Wait, that’s not me.
That’s one of the many Mr. Romance candidates and, speaking as a heterosexual male, he was one of the better looking guys there.

Ebay.com is launching “eBay to Go” where you can put an ebay auction item on your blog.
Apparently, this is just for fun, and no affiliate money changes hands at this time.
I figured I’d try it out, and this is what I came up with…

I’m neither selling nor endorsing this product.
I [...]

Since this is Spidey Week for the Perfessor, he of the Can’t-Get-Enough-Of That-Spidey-Stuff persuasion, I figured I’d add a bit of fun and point to a tale told in the NYPost by Cindy Adams. Cindy tells the tale of someone in Queens sometime in the Fall of 2000 getting a flier shoved under their [...]

Here’s a time lapse movie of some of the coolest dinosaurs you’ll see today.
Nice classical type music; otherwise, sound not req’d

And once you see them for what they are, here’s how they’re used:

Yes kids, Saturday May 5th is, once again Free Comic Book Day! And we couldn’t be happier. Seriously. This year there are some 30–35 comicbooks that are being given away free to folks who show up. Is this a great country or what?

More as the story develops!
Oh, while I plan on spending part of the [...]

Aram Sinnreich at TruthDig.com has an interview with Tim Westgreen, founder of Pandora.com, a popular internet radio website that has caused my wife to buy more than a handful of CDs she wouldn’t have otherwise purchased.
In short, the music labels, through the RIAA and their subcompany Sound Exchange, have been able to convince [...]