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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 272 entries, all of them here in full.
March 6, 2009 · 360 words
I Am Reviewed
This Is Not a Game has scored a couple good reviews! Gary Wolfe at Locus sez that “This Is Not a Game begins at a full run, with superstar ARG developer Dagmar Shaw trapped in a hotel in Jakarta while the city is under a violent seige due to the collapsing economy . . . […]
Read entry →March 5, 2009 · 377 words
What? What Day is it Already?
Wow. It’s been almost a week since I posted anything here.A decent regard for the opinions of mankind requires me to make an explanation of why I’ve been silent for so long.Partly, I was having fun. I got invited to no less than three meals/parties/whatever over the weekend. It ate up my blogging time, and […]
Read entry →February 25, 2009 · 159 words
Passing Out of This World of Tiers
Philip Jose Farmer passed away this morning, aged 91. I first met him at a convention in El Paso in the early Seventies. I was around 20, and had written the first part of a novel. Fortunately I was not quite so gauche as to bring the manuscript with me and ask Mr. Farmer to […]
Read entry →February 20, 2009 · 186 words
Mean-Spirited Amusements
I’ve had a busy week, with little time to think, let alone blog in a thoughtful fashion. I’m not able to be entertaining right now, and I’m feeling really grumpy, so I’m providing links to a whole raft of mean-spirited amusements found elsewhere on the net.Why is Richard Pryor laughing in heaven? Because he’s viewed [&
Read entry →February 19, 2009 · 998 words
Reviews Too Late: Haibane Renmei
People kept recommending this series to me, so I went looking for it on Netflix. The series concept and characters were created by Yoshitoshi ABe (that’s how he spells it), and was produced by yasuyuki ueda (also sic), both of whom worked together on Serial Experiments: Lain. What Lain and Haibane Renmei together seem
Read entry →February 18, 2009 · 544 words
Former USA
From the Long Now Foundation: Dmitri Orlov foresees collapse.The idea that the USA will go the way of the USSR seemed preposterous at the time. It doesn’t seem so preposterous any more. I take it some of you are still hedging your bets. How is that hedge fund doing, by the way? . . . […]
Read entry →February 13, 2009 · 192 words
Jambalaya!
When I was getting over my surgery I cooked a ham, just so I wouldn’t have to think about what I was going to eat for my next meal. But I got sick of the ham well before it ran out. So then I decided to make ham and sausage jambalaya with Creole sauce from […]
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