Eagle vs. Crane

February 26, 2008

No, this isn’t a post about competing kung-fu styles. This is about the natural world. On Sunday morning we awoke to the sound of cranes passing overhead. Thousands of them. It was the day they’d all picked to migrate north. When we got outside to begin our yearly task of burning last summer’s dried-out weeds, […]

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Cloacal Obsession

February 23, 2008

My current audio book is The Religion by Tim Willocks, a big sprawling action/romance set in and around the siege of Malta in 1565. If you haven’t read it, you might think of it as a sort of overlarge Bernard Cornwell book with a better vocabulary and a wider fictional range. There’s a lot of […]

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Leningrad Cowboys

February 23, 2008

Red Army Chorus + rock band Leningrad Cowboys + folk dancers in costume + big Tom Jones hit = OMFG!!!The Red Army Chorus has come a far distance since they mainly sang stuff like “Katyusha.” (A song so great they named a rocket launcher after it.) (courtesy of Greg Frost)

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Best Crit Ever

February 21, 2008

Last night we had our monthly meeting of Critical Mass, our local workshop. Usually our critiques tend to be a bit rambling and tentative, or at least mine do, but last night’s most incisive crit came from new writer (and my former Clarion student) Ian Tregillis. I reconstruct it as best as I can:“If I’m […]

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Ancient History

February 14, 2008

Socrates, Caesar, Milton, Washington. Hitler. The cold war.

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Cyber Command Strikes Again

February 12, 2008

Back in December I posted about Air Force Cyberspace Command. Now we know more about it. 5-10,000 people. $2 billion budget. California, Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, and New Mexico are competing for the headquarters. (If New Mexico can’t have it, I’m rooting for Louisiana. But New Mexico really needs to have it. We haven’t won a […]

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Science Fiction Timeline

February 12, 2008

From Technovelgy, we have this spiffy Science Fiction Timeline, which charts the first mention of SF ideas.Here’s the list to 1869, just to get you started. 1638 Weightlessness (Godwin) – first discovery of concept (from The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin) 1726 Geometric Modeling – eighteenth century NURBS (from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan […]

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Torchwood

February 4, 2008

So now we’ve got the second season of Torchwood running on BBCA. Tonight’s episode was a very good one, I think possibly because the story was a very human one, about the private agony of someone who wasn’t one of the series characters.The series characters are, basically, the problem with the show. When the focus […]

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Not Caring XLII

February 4, 2008

Today marks the forty-second continuous year in which I have not given a damn about the Super Bowl.I’ve never watched one. I’ve never been to a Super Bowl party. I’ve never even been invited to a Super Bowl party.At a gathering of Wild Card authors last night, I talked for two and a half hours […]

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Food Fight

February 3, 2008

Atom Films has produced a history of war from 1939 to the present.All the actors are, well, edible.Check it out.

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