4/2 - on the to-do list: signature sheets for Dark City http://twitpic.com/cinqwz

4/4 - Cool! Someone on Amazon put all the Secret History ebooks in one spot. http://tinyurl.com/c3eh5nd

4/6 - I hate it when I come up with a single line that cancels the need for two scenes (short, but still scenes) that I've already written.

4/10 - Well, this is pretty cool. http://tinyurl.com/cr8q2rh

4/11 - "Darkened Cities" - very eerie and beautiful - http://tinyurl.com/cggso8r

4/12 - Murder plotted at my fave North Jersey diner: http://tinyurl.com/co4v7q7 (now, if I told you that after the uncle was killed they'd be serving lamb Amirstan, would you know whereof I speak?)

4/11 - Hey, very cool that Dana Fedsti lists Jack: http://tinyurl.com/bmapopq

4/13 - 49-second video review of MIDNIGHT MASS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-RL6LWMOpA

4/14 - Woody's in Sea Bright, NJ - the owner was one of the local heroes after Sandy, feeding the volunteers in a makeshift kitchen after his restaurant was wrecked. But now Woody's is back and served me the most amazing PEI mussels in curry sauce last night. Support the Shore - come on down and feast.

4/16 - "Hannibal" - I've enjoyed the first 2 episodes so far. True irony-fests. The second was deliciously grisly and reminded me of the old Japanese film "Metango."

4/18 - the CNN debacle: A hilarious montage of screenshots interspersed with editorializing jpgs and gifs. (When you're in last place, you REALLY want to be first with the story. As for the facts...) http://tinyurl.com/cxpwy63

4/19 - Interesting quiz: says I have a Philly accent (well, I grew up in Jersey) Where's your accent? http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/american...-quiz.html

4/20 - The screenwriting riches flow forever. Just received a WGAe residual check for "Glim-Glim," a 1989 episode of =Monsters=: $3.67.

4/19 - hunting down the Boston bomber in Watertown tonight was like a Dick Tracy strip come to life: the botched escape, the wounded criminal, the trail of blood, the bizarre hiding place, the observant civilian spotting something suspicious, the cops swooping in to make the pinch. Riveting.

4/21 - "Game of Thrones": How do I love thee, Daenerys Targaryen - Let me count the ways.

4/22 - Peter Reilly is talking about Repairman Jack over at Forbes again. He seems to have a real handle on the character http://tinyurl.com/cfubbxw

4/24 - "The Haunted Air" is now out in audiobook. Hear a sample: http://bit.ly/ZHb3OX

4/25 - DARK CITY page proofs: rereading the dialogue in Jack and Doc Hargus's 1st meeting. Gotta say, When I'm on, I'm on.

4/26 - I saw Janis Ian tonight at McLoone's supper club in Asbury Park. It's amazing how well her voice has held up. Her tone is as pure as I remember it (which may not be all that accurate). To these old tinnitus-ravaged ears she sounds just like the link here to the recorded version. "At Seventeen" is teenage angst viewed from afar, but even guys can relate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k39P2MK6WPo

4/27 - Carl Hiassen could get away with it, but if I put this in a novel I'd be laughed out of town:
"Federal agents in Mississippi arrested a martial arts instructor early Saturday morning as part of an investigation into the mailing of ricin-laced letters to President Obama and two other officials. The man, J. Everett Dutschke, was taken into custody without incident at his home in Tupelo, Miss...
"Mr. Dutschke’s arrest came after criminal charges were dropped on Tuesday against another Mississippi man, Paul Kevin Curtis, a celebrity impersonator who said he had been framed by Mr. Dutschke, a longtime personal rival."

4/27 - this might be what the First Age looked like (check out the window)
http://tinyurl.com/d5v5tgc

4/28 - a writer's Sunday: a couple thou words on FEAR CITY, finished proofing DARK CITY, finished (I think) a conversation with Neil Gaiman for the Tor newsletter. To come: a little exercise, a little gin, a call to Tom Monteleone about a project or two, and then "Game of Thrones"