A Quick One

I twittered about my dog needing surgery. Lorraine has written two blogposts that explain all to the curious...

http://lorraineamalena.blogspot.com/2009/01/as-many-of-you-have-already-seem-to.html

http://lorraineamalena.blogspot.com/2009/01/cabel-update.html

...poor thing. He won't be able to go up stairs for six weeks, or be allowed to run.

Meanwhile, there's a photo of him, and me, and snowshoes from the other day, at http://twitpic.com/107mi.

And James Vance sent me a link to his blog that I wanted to pass on. I feel guilty as I don't post all the appeals for help that come in to the blog, mostly because if I did each blog post would contain a link to one or more appeals for people who need medical or other help... But I post some. And they make a difference.

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I'll be doing, with Steve Jones, a live chat on the 15th. Details at http://www.fearnet.com/news/b14268_chat_with_neil_gaiman_about_coraline.html (I just saw a wonderful Coraline trailer that made  it look more like what it is and less, well, sweet and innocuous. I really hope it makes it out into the world, even if it's just onto the web. (Here is a Washington DC Coraline Wall.)