I’ve had The Story of Edgar Sawtelle on my to-be-read pile for a couple of months and I finally picked it up earlier this week. So far it is a sedate story about a family on a farm where the eponymous young boy can hear but can’t speak. It also has a lot of dogs in it. I haven’t read the dust jacket or any reviews, so I have no idea what it’s going to be about in the long run beyond Edgar’s interesting life as a boy who can’t speak. And dogs.
Last night I watched the three CBS comedies that were returning for new seasons, but I skipped the new one, Worst Week, because I wasn’t all that impressed by the ads and I figure they’d already shown us the good bits anyway. I haven’t heard much positive about it, so I guess it was a good choice. I’ve decided that the funniest scenes from Big Bang Theory are when Sheldon is with Penny. Or Leonard. Or Koothrappali. Or Howard. How I Met Your Mother was good, and the reveal at the end of Two and a Half Men was wicked. I wonder if it will be a one-off or a continuing thread this season. I recorded the return of Boston Legal. I caught up with Raising the Bar via OnDemand. The third episode was the best so far, with a favorable verdict leading to a deeper dilemma regarding a mental ill defendant.
I got another one of those close-but-no-cigar rejection letters yesterday. This one was from the ITW’s second thrillers anthology. The editors really liked it, but they were only picking two or three stories from out of over 100 responses to the open submissions, so the odds weren’t in my favor. They strongly encouraged me to place the story elsewhere, but the markets for a 5000-word thriller story are few and far between. I’ll try the usual suspects after learning the outcome of my current submissions with them.
Ever seen a transformer explode? Here’s one going up during the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. And here is a cool video of some guys on a boat in Galveston Bay during the hurricane. And here’s Geraldo Rivera getting knocked on his ass by Ike.
