Blurred Line

There's a massive amount of stuff I've got to do at work this week, so I'm resigning myself to some pretty long days. Agh. Sometimes being an adult just isn't everything it's cracked up to be. In lieu of actual content, I link to an article in Slate (and yes, I love Slate to pieces) on The Letter of Last Resort. Apparently, if Britain ever gets wiped off the map by a nuclear attack, there's a letter contained aboard a nuclear sub which contains his (presumably) posthumous decision on retaliation. I smell a novel in there somewhere.

On the Radioblog: Today, I've got "Worrisome Heart", the title song from Melody Gardot's debut album. It's a quiet, beautiful jazz song with Gardot providing terrific vocals. The story behind her foray into music is pretty interesting, too; at 19, she was hit by a car and, during her recovery, her doctor suggested music to counteract some of the cognitive damage she'd received as a result of a head injury sustained in the accident. Her first recordings, as I understand it, were made before she was even able to walk again. The great story aside, she's become one of my favourite female vocalists. Have a listen.

Keyword of the day: Finally! Someone Googled "freakysexpics" and got this site. And let's face it, you don't really have a real Internet site until someone's Googled that and gotten you. Interestingly, the post that showed up in the search results was about a similar topic (Googling sex, that is, which is kind of the whole point of this Internet thing, isn't it?).


Profile Editor. Writer. 9-5er. Lord of the Dance. Blurredline.com Apodis Publishing Fusion Fragment cterrill(at)blurredline.com Buy Goodbye, Darwin Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format Buy Blurred Line Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format The Short Stuff "Learning Magic From Mint" - published May 2007 in Atomjack "Between Eternities" - published October 2005 at Speculative.ca "Smoke and Mirrors" - published June 2005 in Byzarium Submissions Log Total Subs: 25 Acceptances: 3 Rejections: 17 Withdrawals: 3 Subs Out: 2 Quality Blogs Scalzi's Whatever Dave's Blogography Bookslut The Struggling Writer SF Signal the0phrastus Paperback Writer Scribe's Writing Desk Nathan Bransford Lyons Literary LLC The World in the Satin Bag Book In The Oven The Word Perhaps We Learned Something... Words, etc. Archives March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 Et Cetera Cavan @ Last.fm Cavan @ LibraryThing Feeds Atom Feed RSS Feed	Monday, January 12, 2009 - Post-Apocalyptic letters; Worrisome hearts; Why is sex the only interesting part of this blog? There's a massive amount of stuff I've got to do at work this week, so I'm resigning myself to some pretty long days. Agh. Sometimes being an adult just isn't everything it's cracked up to be. In lieu of actual content, I link to an article in Slate (and yes, I love Slate to pieces) on The Letter of Last Resort. Apparently, if Britain ever gets wiped off the map by a nuclear attack, there's a letter contained aboard a nuclear sub which contains his (presumably) posthumous decision on retaliation. I smell a novel in there somewhere. On the Radioblog: Today, I've got "Worrisome Heart", the title song from Melody Gardot's debut album. It's a quiet, beautiful jazz song with Gardot providing terrific vocals. The story behind her foray into music is pretty interesting, too; at 19, she was hit by a car and, during her recovery, her doctor suggested music to counteract some of the cognitive damage she'd received as a result of a head injury sustained in the accident. Her first recordings, as I understand it, were made before she was even able to walk again. The great story aside, she's become one of my favourite female vocalists. Have a listen. Keyword of the day: Finally! Someone Googled "freakysexpics" and got this site. And let's face it, you don't really have a real Internet site until someone's Googled that and gotten you. Interestingly, the post that showed up in the search results was about a similar topic (Googling sex, that is, which is kind of the whole point of this Internet thing, isn't it?). Cavan blogged at 8:14 PM \| 0 comments	Progress Zilch! 0/0 Listening A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed" My Music Reading Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney My Library Watching Black Book: B Sweet and Lowdown: C Breakfast on Pluto: B Wishlist Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart