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  • Book Review: Playing for Keeps, by Mur Lafferty

    I love Mur Lafferty. Her podcast, I Should Be Writing, was one of the first I ever downloaded and it hasn’t left my mp3 player(s) since. She’s come a long way, from a self-described “wannabe fiction writer” to full-blown published novelist. So is she any good at practicing what she preaches? Let me get the…

  • Jawsome

    My research involves horror movies. Preparing to run a study, I’ve been going through horror movies in slow motion, finding specific frames of scary and non-scary imagery to show people. I love my job. Today I went to Blockbuster to try finding the next movie to analyze, Jaws. Unfortunately, they didn’t have it on the…

  • . Willow has gone home to her mom’s place after staying with me for a week. It’s always a little sad to see her go. There are little things I don’t realize I’ll miss until they’re gone. Stepping on one of her squeaky toys and expecting her to come running to play with it. Dropping…

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