SPANK! AN UPCOMING ANTHOLOGY I WILL BE IN

Spank! is published by Logical Lust to be released on September 15.

Here's the table of contents, featuring some mighty fine writers, including yours truly:

1. Just a Spanking by Lisabet Sarai
2. Apple Bottom Hard Cider by Kathleen Bradean
3. Anthropology by Donna George Storey
4. Anything But Ordinary by A.D.R. Forte
5. The Royal Montague by Cervo
6. Elementary, My Dear Sir by Anna Black
7. The Accidental Spanker by Sean Meriwether
8. Necessary Roughness by Beth Wylde
9. The Good Soldier by Sacchi Green
10. The House on Oxford Street by J.Z. Sharpe
11. Finally by Jessica Lennox
12. Fit to be Tied, Bound to be Gagged by Allison Wonderland
13. Thin-Skinned by Jean Roberta
14. Slippering by Lee Ash
15. A Well-Red Bottom by Maggie Morton
16. Just Rewards by Tara S. Nichols
17. Sugar by Sommer Marsden
18. The Trumpet of Destiny by Roxy Katt
19. Richard's Reward by D. L. King
20 What Jackie Gives Me by Evan Mora

DIANA RIGG, I ASSUME

Just bridle me and ride me, dear! Ouch!

TANKIETKA, ANYONE?

You may be waiting a bit. Most of what's in my two story house has had to be moved down to the main floor, so there's no room for model building just now. Bugger! This experience has made me want to go more Zen, if that's the right word, and just throw a lot of my stuff out.

YEAH, I KNOW, I KNOW...

I didn't do the twice a week blogging. Well, the house has been under renovations: not renovations to make it a really nice house, just renovations to stop it from falling apart or burning down. Structurally it's not a bad house, actually, just one of those poor structures that seems to have been victimized for years by one or more "handymen" who could never do anything quite right.

RPM TANKIETKA TKS - Beginnings of a Kit Review

Okay, let me admit to indulging in one of the nerdiest of hobbies. Yes, building plastic model kits. My little post ages ago of a picture of "Takeshi and Ichizo" in a Japanese military car was no accident. I got it from a modelling magazine.

Anyway, to your left is my somewhat blurry pic of the contents of the RPM 1/35 scale Polish Tankietka TKS.

I'm going to be doing a review of this kit. Now this will be a somewhat unusual review, because I'm just not that good at building model kits -- I'm lazy. It's more fun that way. If you look at most kit reviews you will find the builder is very adept with airbrushes and aftermarket parts and expensive resin or aluminum add-ons, but I just build out of the box and use the same techniques -- more or less -- as when I was a child. I've tried an airbrush, for example, and I just found it a nuisance. I paint with regular brushes.

THROWING MY HAT OVER THE WALL...

Okay, this is it. I've decided I'm going to blog now at least twice a week. And I am asking all of YOU out there to scoff, ridicule, and mock me mercilessly if I do not keep to this promise. The fact is, I've got things to say. But I always end up jotting them down on bits of paper or in my Byzantine, Kafkaesque file and folder system on my computer notebook, and very few of these writings see the light of day. Enough! Ya Basta!

QUOTE OF THE DAY -- WILLEM DE KOONING

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time."

Willem de Kooning

"The trouble with being rich is that it takes up everyone else's," adds Terence Davies (and I don't think he's quoting anyone here) in the film, Of Time and the City.