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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 101 entries, all of them here in full.
July 16, 2006 · 64 words
The Video Fairy is Canadian
The Video Fairy has just emptied her sack of goodies on the unsuspecting networked world. The National Film Board of Canada, which has been producing wonderful short films for something like 50 years, has made 50 of their animated films available for download on the internet. It’s not like any of us have any work [&hel
Read entry →July 12, 2006 · 3,449 words
Log of the Eclipse (9)
Trip Diary: April 1, 2006 Over and Under Cappadocia With the Whirling Dervishes When we checked into our hotel, we noticed that our room was on the same floor as the Presidential Suite. Heh, we thought, like some president is going to stay here! Next day there were two well-suited bodyguards sitting in armchairs outsid
Read entry →July 11, 2006 · 59 words
Commandments?
The Video Fairy has been good to me this week. Here’s a wonderful video in which Stephen Colbert interviews Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, who has sponsored a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in the US House and Senate. Watch the congressman sweat as Colbert asks him to name the commandments to
Read entry →July 10, 2006 · 76 words
Watch That Tongue!
George Dillman has astounded the world of martial arts with his revolutionary system of pressure-point fighting. Lately he’s been claiming that he can knock people out from a distance by hurling ch’i at them. Here’s a truly hilarious video showing Dillman and his disciples at work. If that has you rolling in the aisles
Read entry →July 9, 2006 · 2,559 words
Log of the Eclipse (8)
After time off for workshops and Westercon, the Turkish trip diary resumes with our first full day in Cappadocia. Trip Diary: March 31, 2006Cappadocia— both Cs are hard, by the way— is a high plateau right smack in the middle of Turkey, with harsh winters and brief summers. A modern Turk would call the area […]
Read entry →June 29, 2006 · 73 words
Conzilla
I am off to Conzilla, Westercon 59, in lovely San Diego, which will be running July 1-4. The committee has done me the kindness of making me the Guest of Honor. Bob Eggleton, Bobby Armbruster, and Kevin J Anderson are the other guests. It should be fun. I am participating in an Iron Chef competition, […]
Read entry →June 25, 2006 · 351 words
Spanish Guitar
The other night we journeyed to Socorro, the Athens of the Southwest, for a concert by the Chilean guitarist Carlos Perez. He was in town to teach master classes at the summer guitar workshop held every year by New Mexico Tech. Kathy always does their publicity, and this year she wangled free tickets. I’ve always [&hel
Read entry →June 21, 2006 · 743 words
Virtual T
The following were actually said during critiques at Rio Hondo, and thus make up the Rio Hondo Virtual T-Shirt. Thanks to Michaela Roessner and Nina Kiriki Hoffman for recording these. *”I don’t have many problems with this, and I can’t pretend to.” Gavin *”What you’ve got is two climaxes and a dying fall with a [&hell
Read entry →June 19, 2006 · 267 words
Down From The Mountain
I’ve been away. Now I’m back. I was at Snow Bear, a ski lodge at 9800 feet in the Sangre de Cristo mountains above Taos, NM. Since it’s summer, there wasn’t any skiing going on. Instead we had the Rio Hondo Workshop, which I run most years, this time with the able assistance of Michaela […]
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