Decisions.

My Halloween costume for this year will be Mystique. Or possible The Thing (from the John Carpenter movie). If I can't find the materials, I suppose I can always be a Pod Person, or maybe my Evil Twin. Or I could rely on my old fallback, a serial killer.

I've also decided that I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year. And I'm not writing a genre book, even (although I won't rule out the possibility of the book going off in some odd direction).

My doppleganger, translation help, and other stuff.

Doing a web search for an old document of mine, I was reminded of the fact that there's another person out there with my first and last names, and a similar middle name (Michael to my Mitchell). And he's posted comments on Making Light. He used to pop up on alt.tv.simpsons all the time, and it's the reason I never got involved in Simpsons fandom. Not that he seems like a bad sort, or anything, but that's always been a bit eerie to me. I suspect that other folks have occasionally confused us as well. At the time I first encountered him, I was still at Emory, and he was a student at BU. And from his web page then, I found out that we'd both grown up in NYC (he'd gone to Stuyvesant, I went to Collegiate). Very small world.

I also found that my review of the most recent (and nigh-unreadable) Anita Blake book has been mentioned in a blog over here. However, I can't read the blog, nor can I get Babelfish to do anything good to it. Anyone know what they're saying about me?

Oh, and I found my delurking post from the Leadheads list.

And I apparently contributed to the SNL FAQ. I haven't the faintest recollection of this, but it must be true.

Never found the document I was looking for, alas.