All right, even I am having difficulty at times keeping up with all the news, so if I repeat something here, it just means you’re paying attention, well done, here’s a cookie! Soon I have to leave the glories of Alba for the um, gories? of Albany. Alas. Which means I have to figure out…
Category: obsessions
The Maltman
Happy birthday to my big brother, Steve! Wandering the Howff again, trolling for material I suppose as always. That’s what I do all the time. You know that by now, don’t you? That’s what writers do: absorb everything and turn it sideways and fit it into stories. You have to turn it slant, as Emily…
Goodbye, Russ
Sad news today that Russell Hoban has died. The author of Riddley Walker and so many other wonderful books has left this world without me ever having the chance to say how much I loved his books and how much I learned from them and from him. He taught me to trust being “friends with…
Obsession: Guest Post at Trestle
I’m up on my publisher’s blog today with a piece on obsession. Yeah, you wouldn’t imagine it, eh? Me? Obsessed? Nah. Here’s the first part of it. Read the rest over at Trestle and feel free to share. K.A. Laity- “Obsession”- Guest Post, author of “Drunk on The Moon-It’s A Curse” ObsessionI seem to have…
How Kipper Spends his Day
Yes, he’s staring at the radiator because that’s where evil lives, apparently. It’s disconcerting. Yes, I know it makes odd sounds when the heat comes on, but why does he sit *right* behind my chair and stare at the very same spot always. Is it because all of the other radiators throughout this place are…
Unna ja Nuuk
Coming to Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut on August 16th & 17th at 1.30pm: the Finnish film Unna ja Nuuk, which I simply have to see! Not only for the Finnish angle, but it overlaps with so much that I am writing now that I can hardly believe it. It’s been making the rounds…
Found in the Supermarket
I was reminded by Marko playing the Clash’s “Lost in the Supermarket” (you’re listening to WECS right now, aren’t you?) that I discovered this morning that the Price Chopper over on Central has — in addition to a large Indian section, yum! — a small section dedicated to British foods, so I have somewhere to…
Loopy Tuesday
While still reeling from the news that Russell T’s getting an OBE (wasn’t Saturday’s Davies-penned episode a lot of fun?), which I discovered as I was over at the Forbidden Planet blog reading my pal Pádraig’s interview with the ever-wonderful Alan Moore, I share with you news of Wrong Trousers Day! Mmmmmm — cheese, Gromit!
Thursday Already?
My, how time flies! Tuesday night went well — we had a nice chat over an early dinner at the Pearl, then rushed over to the library amid a sudden downpour and an amazing rainbow (okay, the picture to the left is *not* the rainbow from that day, but one of myriad lovely images from…
K. A. Laity 