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June 26, 2008 · 47 words
Available!
Implied Spaces is available at powells.com! And Pete Johannsen has already got his copy! (I repeat this news for those who have not been following the Implied Spaces Watch.) To quote William Mulholland on the completion of the Los Angeles Aquaduct: “There it is! Take it!”
Read entry →June 26, 2008 · 262 words
George Carlin, Who Art in Heaven
Last night Bravo re-ran an Inside the Actor’s Studio featuring an interview with the late, extravagantly lamented George Carlin. James Lipton asked Carlin his version of the Proust Questionnaire. Among the questions was, “When you die, what would you like God to say to you?”“‘At last we’ll have some fun up here,’” Carl
Read entry →June 26, 2008 · 374 words
Grumped
I’ve been getting really splendid reviews for Implied Spaces, and it may seems ungrateful of me to quibble with some minor aspects of what are otherwise terrific notices. But that’s exactly what I’m going to do— and I’d like to think I’m not acting entirely out of ego (though of course I am), but out […]
Read entry →June 23, 2008 · 51 words
RvD2
Here’s a video showing what clever amateurs can do these days.Ryan vs Dorkman 2.Okay, they can’t act, and they don’t know how to sell their kicks and elbow strikes, but honestly— when was the last time you saw an action movie climax that was as good as this?
Read entry →June 23, 2008 · 559 words
I AM A GREEK GOD!!!
So one morning, as I was staring blearily at my laptop screen, sipping tea, and trying to wrap my head around the morning’s critique, I heard Kelly chortling, and she told me that she’d just taken the What Middle-Earth Race Do You Belong To? quiz over on HelloQuizzy. Turns out she’s an Elf.So I took […]
Read entry →June 20, 2008 · 103 words
Implied Spaces Watch (2)
Copies of Implied Spaces have been seen! Actual physical copies! But they were seen by someone connected to publishing, so the sighting doesn’t count for the Implied Spaces Watch contest! To repeat, the winner is the first person to see a copy of Implied Spaces in a store, or to see it for sale online […]
Read entry →June 14, 2008 · 240 words
Sandman
I’ve lost two friends to cancer in the last week.The first was Erick Wujcik, and the second my companion of 17 years, the cat named Sandman.Though his black-and-white coloration might make it seem obvious, he wasn’t named after the Neil Gaiman character. He acquired the name Sandman because, as a kitten, he did very li
Read entry →June 12, 2008 · 615 words
Erick
My friend, Erick Wujcik, died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer. He had just turned 57. His companion of nearly thirty years, the wonderful Kate Kozora, was by his side. I think I can say without fear of contradiction that he was a creative genius. He was the sort of person who has about a dozen […]
Read entry →June 8, 2008 · 301 words
Al-Qaeda Wants a Posse
Got a plan to save the world? Check out the American Security Initiative, which is soliciting your ideas— well, your business plans— to make a safer world. (For business, I imagine.)” . . . America’s first business plan competition devoted to our nation’s security, seeks to fill this gap in funding and assu
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