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November 7, 2008 · 468 words
The Staggering Bravery of the American Press
We’re now finding out all sorts of things about the campaign. Fox News revealed that Sarah Palin thought that Africa was a country, that she didn’t know what countries were in NAFTA, that she refused to prepare for interviews and that she threw temper tantrums. The GOP has sent a lawyer to retrieve Palin’s clothes. [&h
Read entry →November 6, 2008 · 48 words
Return Engagement
A few weeks ago, I pointed y’all at MightyGodKing’s revised and horribly truthful covers for all the books he liked when he was a teenager. And then he got Boing’d, and the pages got taken down.Well, they’re back.Here’s the first page.Here’s the second.
Read entry →November 5, 2008 · 67 words
A Remarkable Encounter With One of the Most Significant Writers of This or Any Time
I am interviewed by Charles Tan.“I need people to buy my stuff and to tell perfect strangers how wonderful I am. I need to be interviewed constantly on the nationwide networks. I need people to buy my books as presents for their loved ones. All my books.“What I really need is for the whole universe […]
Read entry →November 5, 2008 · 96 words
Kenya Declares a Holiday
I watched the election results on the BBC, partly in order to avoid having to view the same smug talking heads saying the same smug things, but mainly because they had some really interesting guests, like John Bolton, Christopher Hitchens, Jay McInerny, and Gore Vidal. Vidal was a disappointment, since all he did was i
Read entry →November 5, 2008 · 442 words
Back from Canada
We’re back from Canada and the World Fantasy Convention. I had very little to actually do at the convention— I was on one panel, and my agent took me to a concert, and other than that I had nothing to do but enj0y myself. So I did.One morning I didn’t get to sleep till nearly […]
Read entry →October 30, 2008 · 189 words
Athabaska!
So here we are on the Athabaska Glacier, disembarked from our custom-made Terrabus. Of the 23 Terrabuses in the world, 22 of them take folks out on the ice The 23rd is at McMurdo in Antarctica, and its name is “Ivan the Terrabus.” That’s your Antarctic humor for the day. As you can see from […]
Read entry →October 29, 2008 · 137 words
Turquoise
We have spent the day surrounded by towering mountains, glacier-fed lakes, and douglas fir. This is a picture of Bow Lake, which is distinct from the other Bow Lake, and also from Lac d’Arc, which means “Bow Lake” in French. (Though Kathy’s theory was that Joan of Arc’s family moved here, and the lake was […]
Read entry →October 27, 2008 · 107 words
Sound Familiar?
“While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst — and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us.” – Herbert Hoover, President of the United Stat
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