Becky and Sac-Eats both have blog entries that might be in the Sacramento Bee this Sunday, but Becky's is better. Read it for yourself, here.

Here's a reason to buy the season three Veronica Mars DVDs: It's got the season-four pitch wherein Tiny Blonde One ain't just FBI but packing heat, too.

I don't have any of the VMs on DVD and haven't decided whether I want them for my birthday or Christmas. Anyone out there got first/second season DVDs? Any special extras included?

I'd like to see that season-four pitch, though. This reviewer, Jennifer Godwin of E!, wrote, “As an FBI agent, Veronica fully becomes the badass we always knew her to be.”

After fully intending to boycott the CW (the WB/UPN merger), I find myself fully drawn to Reaper and haven't missed an episode. Looove Ray Wise as Mephistopheles. That man wears the hell out of a suit. We also enjoyed Angels in America when we saw it last week, and I'm hoping to catch last night's ep (we opted for Chuck and DVRd HIMYM (my choice) and Sara Gilbert on The Big Bang Theory) on the CW's Web site, but it's not up yet.

In other Motormouth Media news, I'll send Bible Study to the copy shop today and even if it's just me and Toby at Lab tomorrow, we'll get the three pages cut that need to be cut, and if we decide it doesn't suck I'll send it to The Humana Contest.

And, yesterday I ran for the first time in *forever*, and put in 3/4 of a mile while pushing The Boy in our Super Jogger, while he fueled up by eating an apple down to the nub.

I have formatted my first six years' worth of “blog” posts — go to motormouth.com, click on Blogs, and peruse my writings from 1992-1996. 1998 is formatted, too. Anything newer than 1998 is not formatted and, frankly, resembles the dog's breakfast.

First baseball I've watched all season was the last four innings of tonight's game 7.

Good timing. I ate a Macoun apple and watched the Red Sox win and for a moment Massachusetts didn't seem so bad. Boston versus Denver in the 2007 World Series.

The Rockies are gonna lose, because they had snow before even Boston did.

I have a new play. It's a one-act. It's called Bible Study. No, it's called Many Mansions. No, it's called “Unpacking.”

No, it's called Bible Study. It's being read at Lab on Wednesday and then I'll send it off for this year's National 10-Minute Play Contest.

Very happy for having this inspiration; I'm eager to enter this contest again!

not even 23 months yet and tonight The Boy counted to ten. Unprompted. My baby rocks!

I just finished my Christmas shopping.

Have any of you read Amy Hempel's Collected Stories ? I'd never heard of her until Palahniuk wrote about her in his Stranger than Fiction n-f collection. She's like his overarching goddess. I can see why.

I'm halfway through her Collected and it's knocking my socks off. She writes minimalistic prose that McCarthy (Cormac, not Joe), Proulx, and McMurtry only wish they could write. Instead of being off-putting or stiff, her reductionism (and subsequent embellishment, a la her story “The Harvest”) draws you in, then reaches up through the page, grabbing your heart and throat with one really really really big hand.

“In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried” is her widely anthologized piece, but it's not her best — I'm particularly loving “Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep” and the two-page “San Francisco.”

How come I never heard of her when I was working on my MFA? One of her books was out of print at the time but others were available.

Anyone else out there read her? What's your opinion?

Did you know that the guy who wrote those Left Behind books wrote a Bible ?

Now you do. Do you feel a little dirtier for it? Me, too. Shower time.

Back when I had my first meeting about Living in Northampton and Amherst, the publisher told me she wanted to re-design the cover with some new photos. I told her I have a BA in photojournalism and she agreed to take a look at any pictures I'd like to submit.

Flash-forward three months. I sent her nine pictures last night, and today received this response: “THANK YOU SO MUCH, I love the photos, I will use several of them.”

So, it'll be “written, researched, and cover photos by” Motormouth. Woo-HOO! And, if I make my deadline of early November, it'll be available for you (yes, you) to purchase for all of your holiday gift-giving needs.