Deanna Hoak

My friend Pointoforigin has written a description of Morpheus that anyone who’s ever suffered from insomnia can appreciate:
Damn, it would be nice to be UNCONSCIOUS right about now. Morpheus! You sullen and ineffectual slut! Call yourself a god of sleep? You’re no god. You’re the highway repair worker of the pantheon. Always having a smoke [...]

We always get such a bad rap. :-)
If any of you haven’t seen the video to Brad Paisley’s song “Online,” I highly recommend you go watch it, even if you don’t care for country music. Music.yahoo.com lets you watch videos for free, so pop the name in the search box there and enjoy.
It’s by far [...]

This mildly SF-themed and humorous take on the Myers-Briggs personality test was going around my LJ f’list last week, and the description of INTJs (which is how I always test on those things) cracked me up. :-) You can go read the types for yourself, but here’s a bit of mine:
INTJs are solid, competent personalities [...]

My brilliant friend Josh Darcy has written a play on the General Strike that’s going to be showing at Conway Hall in London this weekend. If I were there, I would go, but alas. :( Here’s the flyer, though, for any of you who might be able to attend!

If you see Josh (who’s playing A. [...]

At least some of you who read here are into linguistics, and if you are, you’ll know of Alex the African Grey, who caused researchers to rethink their views on avian intelligence and language. I learned about him during my master’s coursework, and he remains the animal I’m most fascinated by.The most revealing quote I’ve [...]

Because I gave up buying a PS3 to get this dress for the World Fantasy Awards instead. :-)

It was just too pretty to pass up, though!

Because it resulted in mistakes like this.
Honestly. Do you have any idea what that does for SFWA in the eyes of the younger generation?
Kudos to Capo for his apology, though.