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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 […]
Read entry →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 […]
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