Buy a Book, Please?
Archives
- January 2021
- April 2019
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2016
- August 2014
- July 2014
- April 2013
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
RSS Thingy
Categories
Action flicks A Game of Thrones Aliens Art in the Park At the movies Book reviews Borderlands Chocolate Dark Elves Decadent Publishing Desert life Dogs End Greyhound Racing epublishing Fantasy Feminism G.R.R. Martin gardening Greyhounds Home repair Horses Humor Internet Lessons Learned Metal art Movies Music My art New Mexico publishing Rant Retired greyhounds Romance Spam I Am Stupid dog owners The Canvas Thief The Crazy is Strong The Music of Chaos Uncategorized Urban Fantasy Vampires Webcomics Worth Watching Writing XboxCopyright
© 2019 Patricia Kirby All Rights Reserved
Monthly Archives: September 2010
That Home Time Religion
Wednesday night. Under a gray sky, a mass of fat rainclouds rolled over the house. So low you could almost touch them, but opaque and thick like dark gray cotton balls, not misty, like fog. They moved fast. Lifelike spooky, … Continue reading
Posted in Home repair, Humor, New Mexico
Comments Off on That Home Time Religion
Go, Team Scorpion
“Clash of the Titans” is delightful. Delightfully bad. Having recently suffered through the critically acclaimed, but mind-rapingly dull, “No Country for Old Men,” husband-critter and I decided to dip into the shallower side of the cinematic gene pool. Clash of … Continue reading
Good Thing He’s Cute
After spending the morning staring at the computer screen at work, wondering, “What the hell is it I do I here?” I’m back home. And staring at the computer screen. My faithful greyhound enters the office, walking carefully over the … Continue reading
Posted in Greyhounds, Retired greyhounds
Comments Off on Good Thing He’s Cute
Like a Dog, But Bigger
It’s six-thirty am and my horse is bugling at the house. I, the antithesis of a morning person, am thinking dark thoughts about glue factories and horse steaks. Bleary-eyed, I tromp out to to the barn, where the Wonder Horse … Continue reading
Whot I Lurnt at Pubic Shool
”Who was Stephen F Austin??? Why are shool is named after him” That’s the title of a posting at my high school’s reunion page over at Facebook. It’s just a cavalcade of sad. A little misspelled monument to the inadequacy … Continue reading
Posted in Chocolate, HS reunion, Humor
Comments Off on Whot I Lurnt at Pubic Shool
St. Paddy’s in the Fall
Yeah, it’s hopelessly out of season, but I stumbled on this at DeviantArt. Jelly sandwiches, nailed to the wall. The last panel is priceless. “Sit up straight or the devil will steal your backbone…and lash you with it for the … Continue reading
Brother, Can You Spare a Zucchini?
In which the Casa de Kirby is struck by a case of “careful what you wish for.” Rewind several months, back to March, when a young, uh, youngish, erm, what-ever, gardener’s heart warms after the winter that would not end. … Continue reading
Posted in gardening
Comments Off on Brother, Can You Spare a Zucchini?
I, Geek
Alternate title, Lazarus, the Xbox. Horror of horrors, about a month ago our beloved Xbox got a case of the Three Rings of Death. At Casa de Kirby, this counts as a relationship crisis. What are a husband and wife … Continue reading
Posted in Borderlands, gaming, Geeks, Xbox
Comments Off on I, Geek
The Music of Chaos Finds a Home
After an assortment of misadventures, my first novel, The Music of Chaos, has found a home. I have contracted to publish it with Decadent Publishing, a really new publisher. And by misadventures, I mean publishers going out of business before … Continue reading
Posted in Dark Elves, Decadent Publishing, publishing, sales, Urban Fantasy, Vampires
Comments Off on The Music of Chaos Finds a Home