Sarah E. Moffett

A friend lost a friend this weekend.
He was a loveable soft, gray furball of Cheshire infused smiles and Mufasa sized yawns bought for eleven dollars and a Pokemon card by a wide eyed boy a lifetime and several girls ago. Deemed Max, this fearless tom cat used his bantering paws to tame three yipping Chihuahuas […]

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2007 was boring. Really boring. There was a 10,000 mile book tour, a handful of road races, in and out of the car, falling in love with Kerouac and Vonnegut, approximately $1,050 in parking tickets, drinks in Monte Carlo and the train jumping debacle, two car accidents, losing mucho dinero in Vegas to those impossible […]

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What is art?
Snoozing, aren’t you.
I generally am too when someone pulls that gem out of the air. Then I heard an answer in the most unlikely place.

If only all of life’s mysteries were discoverable in the midst of a rock opera complete with laser show, faux-snow, and pyrotechnician’s dream.
Paul O’Neill, one of the founders of […]

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Thanksgiving. A time for sharing. A time for eating. Or in the words of one Buffyverse character, “Thanksgiving isn’t a-about blending of two cultures. It’s about one culture wiping out another! A-and then they make animated specials about the part where… w-with the maize and th-the big, big belt buckles. They don’t show you the […]

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Fall Has Been Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons according to a recent article in the Onion.  This required immediate investigation as fall is the best season.  Ever.  See Moffett make for the Blue Ridge Mountains.  (Or as the Colorado side of the family likes to say, “the East Coast Hills.”)  I will let the pictures and […]

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It’s been a rough year for writers. In short, they have been dropping like flies.

Robert Jordan, master of the fantasy novel and impetus for my brother’s pleas “to just finish it already,” died this past September at age 58 from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy after dazzling the misplaced Star Trek masses for decades with his […]

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At least, I hope it does.
My name is Sarah Moffett, and I am insane. This season’s example of controlled insanity will be to attempt the Philadelphia Marathon next Sunday. Operative word being “attempt.” Considering all of the distractions as of late–lawyering, writing, enduring the Rockies get drilled in the Series, watching Hillary Clinton running for […]

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JK Rowling has revealed she has written a new book about Harry Potter’s world - but only seven people will read it.
The Harry Potter creator has turned the Tales of Beedle the Bard - which was in the final Potter book - into a set of short stories.
There are only seven copies of the book […]

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Upon learning that J.K. Rowling had outed Dumbledore, I immediately had four thoughts.
1. The Harry Potter Encyclopedia just got really interesting.
2. This woman knows how to make enemies.
3. And really knows how to sell books.
4. I want to be out of town for the inevitable 1,000,000 fundamentalists against HP march.
OK, so the world now […]

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 They rode in silence for a while, and then the driver made another good point. He said he knew that his truck was turning the atmosphere into poison gas, and that the planet was being turned into pavement so his truck could go anywhere. “So I’m committing suicide,” he said.
 “Don’t worry about it,” said Trout.
 “My […]

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