Jul 20, 2008
By Justine Musk
I am a sucker for dance shows. Not Dancing With The Stars kind of thing – I think I was one of the few people actually not watching that – but competitions featuring trained, talented dancers. And because you don’t exactly need to catch every word of dialogue, they are excellent to watch from the perspective of a rapidly moving treadmill amid the sound of pounding feet (and gasping).
So of course I watched every episode of Step It Up and Dance and what struck me ... Read More
Jul 20, 2007
By Justine Musk
–Justine Musk
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My 3 year old son was diagnosed with high-functioning autism. At that point my understanding of such things began and ended with the movie RAIN MAN, but it turns out that autism falls along an entire spectrum, from very severe to very mild. My son falls into the mild end and, thanks [...]
--Justine Musk
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My 3 year old son was diagnosed with high-functioning autism. At that point my understanding of such things began and ended with the movie RAIN MAN, but it turns out that autism falls along an entire spectrum, from very severe to very mild. My son falls into the mild end and, thanks to early childhood intervention in general, and speech, play, and occupational therapies in particular, gets more expressive and interactive all the time. One day he might ... Read More
May 25, 2007
By Justine Musk
By Justine Musk
(**Note from the “management**) This column was supposed to appear last month. It never made it from the overseas Kiosk to US e-mail, but we bring it to you now as Stan has company this weekend…flexibility is good. Justine wanted me to leave in the happy birthday to Skipp, but [...]
By Justine Musk
(**Note from the "management**) This column was supposed to appear last month. It never made it from the overseas Kiosk to US e-mail, but we bring it to you now as Stan has company this weekend…flexibility is good. Justine wanted me to leave in the happy birthday to Skipp, but notes it's over man…better late than never…
…..DNW)
(Happy Birthday John Skipp! Seems like just yesterday I was an impressionable young slip of a thing first discovering Splatterpunk….)
In ... Read More
May 9, 2007
By Justine Musk
By Justine Musk
I was a judge in a ‘hook’ writing contest held by the fangs-fur-fey livejournal community (http://community.livejournal.com/fangs_fur_fey). Writers of related genres sent in their ‘hooks’ – that paragraph of a query letter describing the novel in such concise, compelling terms that the agent has no choice but to request five pages, then fifty, then [...]
By Justine Musk
I was a judge in a ‘hook’ writing contest held by the fangs-fur-fey livejournal community (http://community.livejournal.com/fangs_fur_fey). Writers of related genres sent in their ‘hooks’ – that paragraph of a query letter describing the novel in such concise, compelling terms that the agent has no choice but to request five pages, then fifty, then the whole thing, then representation.
The judges were all published novelists who at some point had written a hook that got them all the way out of the ... Read More
Mar 25, 2007
By Justine Musk
Justine Musk
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People who live in mostly-glass houses rarely throw stones. They’re not that stupid. They do, however, have to deal with the small corpses of birds who fly into the windows. There is a lesson in this, but I’ll be damned if I know what it is.
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I read once that there are two kinds of [...]
Justine Musk
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People who live in mostly-glass houses rarely throw stones. They’re not that stupid. They do, however, have to deal with the small corpses of birds who fly into the windows. There is a lesson in this, but I’ll be damned if I know what it is.
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I read once that there are two kinds of readers. The first, and most common, is the bright, well-adjusted child with decent social skills who absorbs reading from his or her environment. There are many books ... Read More
