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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.
February 12, 2009 · 76 words
Schadenfreude
So this morning I was drawing a bath and left the room and when I came back Charlie was looking like this. After I finished laughing and loudly mocking his clumsiness and dancing around with joy I ran for the camera, but he wouldn’t sit still for a photo, so I stole this pic from […]
Read entry →February 12, 2009 · 67 words
tlhaQ
It’s time for Klingons in the News!Hot on the heels of the revelation that some mope was using a Klingon bat’leth to rob convenience stores in Colorado, we now find this moving short film about Klingon Night School. Note that the film is brought to us by Chili’s. Perhaps a visit to Chili Headquarters with […]
Read entry →February 10, 2009 · 75 words
Clarion 2009
Clarion, the science fiction field’s pre-eminent workshop, is open for submissions from prospective students.The six-week workshop will take place at University of California at San Diego, and will run June 28 through August 8. This year’s writers in residence will be Holly Black, Larissa Lai, Robert Crais, Kim Stanley
Read entry →February 9, 2009 · 239 words
Hugo Pimping
You have a little less than two weeks to nominate me for a couple Hugo Awards, so it’s time to get busy! We need to pull together for this to happen, but if we succeed in coordinating our efforts, my mantelpiece will have two shiny new rockets, a massive injustice will have been laid to […]
Read entry →February 9, 2009 · 189 words
Coraline 2D
We saw Coraline the other day, and for some reason I was not enchanted. (My reaction to the book was enchantment from Page One, or thereabouts.) I spent the entire film admiring the movie’s technical achievements, but I was never caught up in the action, and the odd thing is that I can’t figure out […]
Read entry →February 6, 2009 · 108 words
Shirt Full of Goodies
The Good News Fairy has a veritable shirt full of goodies for me this week!Firstly, the folks at conceptscifi.com have very kindly made This Is Not a Game their book of the month! One could have wished that it would occur on the month when the book is actually released, but one can’t have everything, […]
Read entry →February 6, 2009 · 73 words
Why I’m Slow This Week
When I was in the hospital for my few brief hours of day surgery, I got a head cold.So I’m recovering not only from surgery (which is going just fine, thank you for asking), but I’m recovering from a cold at the very same time. Kathy pointed out that I might as well save time […]
Read entry →February 4, 2009 · 55 words
Pride. Prejudice. Zombies.
Some of you are thinking, “why?” Why defile a perfectly good piece of classic English literature by adding gratuitous gore, ninjas, and childish sexual innuendos? Well I say, “because it’s there…and because antiquated copyright laws let me.”Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. Coming
Read entry →February 3, 2009 · 1,480 words
Reviews Too Late: Lust, Caution
You know that if it’s a serious Chinese-language film, it’s going to be a tragedy. No one in China ever gets a happy ending. Ever. Not even fictional characters. That’s Rule #1. So I never figured I’d ever mistake this film for, say, It’s a Wonderful Life.Yet when Netflix informed me that Ang Lee had […]
Read entry →February 2, 2009 · 122 words
Returned to Life
So I was out of town for a few days, and when I returned I slipped into the hospital for some brief voluntary surgery. I had an annoying (but fortunately benign) cyst removed. I had hoped to return with the cyst in a jar of alcohol, but somehow this did not happen.I spent the weekend […]
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