Oh, great internet. Please grant me a good recipe for no-bake cookies. One with peanut butter and chocolate married with oatmeal. One which does not crumble into a zillion pieces when I try to eat it.

Eric James Stone pointed out this press conference which I had completely missed. While I do try to stay up to date on politics, I had somehow overlooked Bush’s concerns about zombies. This is one of the few policy points where I agree with the president.

Also check out his press conference about the danger of trolls.

Charles Stross has some excellent advice on Readings. Check it out.

A friend, who recently sold her first novel, wrote to me paraphrased: “help I’m supposed to be giving a reading from my work at a science fiction convention. What do I do?”

Readings, like signings, are one of the epiphenomena of writing: not a central part of the business, but people give you funny looks if your first reaction on being invited to do one is to shriek and hide up a tree.

We were invited over to Jonathan Judge’s place to listen to jazz on his front stoop. Every year, his neighborhood association brings the Jazz Mobile in to play. They’ve got a bandstand on wagon that they haul around to different venues. It was a lot of fun and a much needed break.

Jonathan provided sushi. Rob and I brought dessert. My contribution consisted of finding Cherie Priest’s Key Lime Pie recipe which Rob made while I worked. Everyone exclaimed over the pie and three different people proclaimed that it was better than this Key Lime Pie store in Red Hook.

Curiously, people kept complimenting me on the pie, even though I kept explaining that Rob had made it.