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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 230 entries, all of them here in full.
June 23, 2008 · 51 words
RvD2
Here’s a video showing what clever amateurs can do these days.Ryan vs Dorkman 2.Okay, they can’t act, and they don’t know how to sell their kicks and elbow strikes, but honestly— when was the last time you saw an action movie climax that was as good as this?
Read entry →June 23, 2008 · 559 words
I AM A GREEK GOD!!!
So one morning, as I was staring blearily at my laptop screen, sipping tea, and trying to wrap my head around the morning’s critique, I heard Kelly chortling, and she told me that she’d just taken the What Middle-Earth Race Do You Belong To? quiz over on HelloQuizzy. Turns out she’s an Elf.So I took […]
Read entry →June 20, 2008 · 103 words
Implied Spaces Watch (2)
Copies of Implied Spaces have been seen! Actual physical copies! But they were seen by someone connected to publishing, so the sighting doesn’t count for the Implied Spaces Watch contest! To repeat, the winner is the first person to see a copy of Implied Spaces in a store, or to see it for sale online […]
Read entry →June 14, 2008 · 240 words
Sandman
I’ve lost two friends to cancer in the last week.The first was Erick Wujcik, and the second my companion of 17 years, the cat named Sandman.Though his black-and-white coloration might make it seem obvious, he wasn’t named after the Neil Gaiman character. He acquired the name Sandman because, as a kitten, he did very li
Read entry →June 12, 2008 · 615 words
Erick
My friend, Erick Wujcik, died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer. He had just turned 57. His companion of nearly thirty years, the wonderful Kate Kozora, was by his side. I think I can say without fear of contradiction that he was a creative genius. He was the sort of person who has about a dozen […]
Read entry →June 8, 2008 · 301 words
Al-Qaeda Wants a Posse
Got a plan to save the world? Check out the American Security Initiative, which is soliciting your ideas— well, your business plans— to make a safer world. (For business, I imagine.)” . . . America’s first business plan competition devoted to our nation’s security, seeks to fill this gap in funding and assu
Read entry →June 6, 2008 · 286 words
Apocalypse Mail
Devout Internet geeks rejoice! Now you can send email even after you’ve been raptured! Thanks to youvebeenleftbehind.com, your nonbeliever friends can be sent a personalized email six days after the Rapture urging them to reconsider their pagan ways and join Christ’s army for the seven years of the Tribulation. For $40
Read entry →June 3, 2008 · 263 words
Lancashire Aeronautics and Space Administration
So after knocking off work late last night, I poured myself a well-deserved margarita and started flipping channels on the satellite dish to see if there was anything on worth watching. (Most worthwhile programs are on after midnight, I’ve found.)So I clicked onto the Beeb, and there was Top Gear, which is an English p
Read entry →June 2, 2008 · 375 words
Mystery Plane
Instead of sitting around in Baltimore waiting for the con to start, I headed out on Friday to lovely Chantilly, VA, to see the Steven F. Utvar-Hazy Center. Which will probably ring no bells with you, until I state that it’s part of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. In fact it’s the part that […]
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