Douglas Adams will be missed. Aside from his books, the computer game "Starship Titanic" was a hoot, but still not nearly as good as the "Myst" series.

Neil Gaiman is a god. If he had never written anything except "Ramadan" for the "Sandman" comic he would still be a god. I've got almost everything he ever wrote. "Stardust" is available both as a comic and a book. If you have read it only in the book form, you are really missing something.

Still waiting for BBC "Neverwhere" show to be released on DVD in U.S. so I can throw away my cheezy taped-off-TV version. Have "Gormenghast" on DVD, and have not had time to watch it yet.

Got Pullman's trilogy from the SF Book Club collected in one volume as "His Dark Materials," but have not had time to read it yet.

I'm also weeks behind on watching taped TV episodes. Stack of tapes is a foot high. I've only seen the premiere of "Buffy." I've got a great new "Sister Wendy" series that I need to watch with the kids.

Dang. The biggest disadvantage to living in California is you can't get snowed in for three days and just sit by the fire and read and watch TV.

Of course, raising two kids kind of eats the time up too...

This is a shot of my Merv Pumpkinhead stuffie...