South Beneath the Full Moon

November 5, 2009

Utopiales ended on Sunday, and a fine convention it was, too. Then we spent three rainy days in Bourgogne, visiting Kathy’s cousine Karen, who with her S/O Jean-Bertrand owns an old stone farmhouse dated 1641. We left bloated with Jean-Bertrand’s superb cooking, spent a day and a half in Avignon checking the scene, and are […]

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Seeing the Elephant

October 28, 2009

Crossed an item off my life list today: Rode the giant steampunk elephant. In France. On my birthday. (video thanx to ralf)

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First Observation

October 26, 2009

French airports are built with a steely Cartesian logic that is sometimes inaccessible to the Anglo-Saxon mind.

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Ad Astra

October 25, 2009

Novel finished and delivered to editors in UK and US. Bags packed for France. Flight in six hours. I’ll be gone for three weeks, and may not be able to check in during that time. In the meantime, please buy many copies of This Is Not a Game. Thank you.(Now if only I can find […]

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Eric Idle Responds

October 24, 2009

Don’t we all wish we could respond this way to our critics? Well, now I think about it, we can, can’t we?

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A Fine Phrenzy

October 24, 2009

I am preparing to leave this coming Sunday for Utopiales, Europe’s largest SF con, where I am one of the guests of honor. After which I will spent a couple weeks wandering around France, basically kicking the tires and looking for cool stuff to write about. (A previous trip to France produced a Nebula-winning novella, […]

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Net Neutrality is a Commie Conspiracy!

October 23, 2009

War hero John “a google” McCain is standing up for America yet again! He’s trying to keep the government’s evil hands off our tubes— I mean, our Internets!Yes, children— John McCain has introduced a bill to ban Net Neutrality! In this he has support from brave weeping patriot Glenn Beck, who has publically called net […]

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Left Fab 4 Dead

October 22, 2009

The huge success of Rock Band: the Beatles has produced yet another Fab Four crossover game! What’s more fun than blasting hordes of zombies in Left 4 Dead? Blasting zombies with John, Paul, George, and Ringo, that’s what!

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A Writer’s Life

October 22, 2009

It turns out that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns were never thrown out. An analysis by William J Quirk shows that Fitzgerald was not the irresponsible spendthrift of legend, but a very careful and reliable earner, who carefully documented his income and expenses. (Though, like all of us, he did sometimes wonder where the money […]

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Wizard Rap

October 21, 2009

Harry Potter vs. Voldemort in a Wizard Rap Battle!

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