Had a good time yesterday participating in the interactive, day-long interview featuring editors and authors from Tesseracts Thirteen at Bitten By Books. It’s all still up there if you care to peruse it.
I’m no fan of Kathy Griffin. For the most part I’m oblivious to her, and I thought she was purely obnoxious with Anderson Cooper on New Years Eve. However, she was actually pretty fun on Law & Order: SVU last night. She played an obnoxious (of course) lesbian activist who was actually secretly seeing a man. She made a pass at Olivia and then later smooched Elliot square on the lips, which must be a first for the show. Oh, yeah, and Olivia pretended to be a lesbian to get a perp to confess, and Elliot got punched out by another lesbian who was a bouncer at a gay bar.
On the second episode, Mischa Barton comported herself very well as a young woman who had been a prostitute since the age of 12 who was the sole witness against a religious zealot who was murdering hookers. The premature baby subplot was very similar to the one from Private Practice last week. The SVU ending with Olivia left with power of attorney and having to make a decision about an operation was a bit of overblown. About par for the course for this show.
Came up with a brand new beginning for the short story I’m trying to write for the next MWA anthology. I only have a week or so left to get this one in the can and I’ve been distracted with other projects, so I was glad of the inspiration and the page of scribbled notes I made after I got out of the shower this morning. Which is where the idea came to me, of course.
Three weeks from today I’ll be in Brighton, England for World Horror. I’m looking forward to it. Hopefully it won’t be too hectic, but I’m already having to make myself a grid to be sure I don’t miss something I’ve committed to.
