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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.

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  1. February 2, 2009 · 53 words

    Kind Words

    As my world slowly returns to something resembling normal, I find kind words on the Internet.First, Jane Lindskold says some nice things about Implied Spaces.And next, Worlds Without End passes on the word about This Is Not a Game. Pleasing things to encounter as I stagger back to life.

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  2. February 2, 2009 · 5 words

    News Anchor Kata

    News Anchor Commercial-Break Kata.

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  3. January 26, 2009 · 272 words

    Sounds

    I’m going to be away for a few days, and I don’t know whether I’ll have the chance to Internet while I’m away. (Jeez. I just made “Internet” a verb. Somebody stop me!)I’ll try not to invent any new verbs for the rest of this post.Since I won’t be talking to you, why don’t you […]

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  4. January 25, 2009 · 35 words

    And the Award Goes To . . .

    The Aurealis Award for Best Anthology went to The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, edited by Jonathan Strahan. My story “Pinocchio” happens to be listed in the Table of Contents. Coincidence? Perhaps not!

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  5. January 23, 2009 · 548 words

    Diaz, Delany, Dinner

    Last night Daniel, Ty, and I drove up to Santa Fe to enjoy dinner with Samuel R. Delany and Junot Diaz. Junot was doing a reading at a local theater, after which Chip would interview him— the event was completely sold out, by the way, we could only get tickets in the next-to-last row of […]

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  6. January 20, 2009 · 219 words

    Man of the Year

    Can I just pause for a moment and express my relief that we now have a president who speaks my language? By which I mean English. I was not an early Obama supporter (in my hopeless, quixotic way, I liked Bill Richardson, whose campaign has now ended in a grand jury investigation), but my modest […]

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  7. January 20, 2009 · 152 words

    Newly Reviewed

    This Is Not a Game has been awarded a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly. Williams (The Rift) weaves intriguing questions about games, gamers and their relationships with real life into this well-paced near-future thriller. Game designer Dagmar specializes in creating “alternate reality” games that muddle the line be

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  8. January 20, 2009 · 1,217 words

    Writer Geeks

    So here’s my latest literary complaint.I’ve just finished a book that was written by, let’s face it, a geek. And the geekness was, alas, there for all to see.And let me state loudly and clearly that I have nothing against geeks. Geeks know cool stuff— which is sort of the definition of a geek, someone […]

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  9. January 20, 2009 · 11 words

    Over the Line

    This video is just so wrong. (Thanks to Greg Frost)

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  10. January 16, 2009 · 38 words

    I Relax

    I’m off to a relaxing weekend hideaway. I’ll be getting massages and visiting hot springs. I may be too relaxed to even think of checking in here for a few days.You are at liberty to envy me.

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  11. January 16, 2009 · 819 words

    Reviews Too Late: Generation Kill

    On the recommendation of Ian and others here, I checked out the HBO series Generation Kill, which then inspired me to read the book by Evan Wright, which I was enjoying until I lost my copy before I could finish it. (If you’ve got the book, please return it. The library wants it back. Thank […]

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  12. January 11, 2009 · 645 words

    Reviews Too Late: Sukiyaki Western Django

    So what do we call this one? Soba Western, maybe? The only thing I know for sure is that Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest gets another workout. The gore-soaked Red Harvest was first adapted for the screen in Roadhouse Nights (1930), apparently a seriocomic version starring Charles Ruggles. Then Kurosawa stole Hammett’s p

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