Now that the election is all over with, why not check out the November issue of The Big Click, which features work by Ray Banks, Andrea Gibbons, and Daphne Gottlieb, as well as information on helping Tom Piccirilli. Spread the word and such. Buy the inexpensive ebook version and you can read it all now. Or you can check out the site every week and read stuff for free as it is revealed.
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Speaking of free stuff, the World Fantasy Convention was this past weekend. I didn't go—which is good, because I am led to understand that it was held in a frozen corn field fifty miles from Toronto, but my friend Kate whipped up a thing for me. If you attended WFC and managed to keep track of the little postcard in your goodie bag, you can type in a code on my website and download free copies of Bullettime, my Friedrich Engels steampunk novelette "Arbeitskraft" (Matt Cheney recently said that "Arbeitskraft" was a story which you just have to read to believe.) and a couple of small things. So enjoy!
And if didn't go to WFC, why not just buyBullettime or just buy Steampunk Revolution. Hurry, before we hit the fiscal cliff!
Mixed results with state and local propositions: 35 passing is the major bit of Terrordome. That was the one that turned anyone who profited from sex work—like, say, the adult children or domestic partner of a sex worker—into "human traffickers." California still has the death penalty as well, with the failure of 34, but that's just status quo evil, not the creation of a brand-new one. Locally, it looks like we won't be re-opening the nearby public pool—a two-thirds majority was required—but the anti-street-sitting ordinance (which would have just driven the crusty punks from the main drags into residential neighborhoods anyway) failed, so good.
Incidentally, the old poolhouse is used as a shower for the homeless two nights a week, so I guess there is some logic to the results.
For some time we watched the Presidential election results on a Jumbotron with many local university students. I did meet a single meek Gary Johnson supporter (a woman of color, no less!) who asked me about my Peace and Freedom button. Unsurprisingly, most everyone was thrilled with the Obama victory—it's not like they draft kids when they have drones!—and really had a personal hatred of Romney. I guess he'll have to go back to playing the evil vice principal in high school titty comedy movies now.
Speaking of free stuff, the World Fantasy Convention was this past weekend. I didn't go—which is good, because I am led to understand that it was held in a frozen corn field fifty miles from Toronto, but my friend Kate whipped up a thing for me. If you attended WFC and managed to keep track of the little postcard in your goodie bag, you can type in a code on my website and download free copies of Bullettime, my Friedrich Engels steampunk novelette "Arbeitskraft" (Matt Cheney recently said that "Arbeitskraft" was a story which you just have to read to believe.) and a couple of small things. So enjoy!
And if didn't go to WFC, why not just buyBullettime or just buy Steampunk Revolution. Hurry, before we hit the fiscal cliff!
Mixed results with state and local propositions: 35 passing is the major bit of Terrordome. That was the one that turned anyone who profited from sex work—like, say, the adult children or domestic partner of a sex worker—into "human traffickers." California still has the death penalty as well, with the failure of 34, but that's just status quo evil, not the creation of a brand-new one. Locally, it looks like we won't be re-opening the nearby public pool—a two-thirds majority was required—but the anti-street-sitting ordinance (which would have just driven the crusty punks from the main drags into residential neighborhoods anyway) failed, so good.
Incidentally, the old poolhouse is used as a shower for the homeless two nights a week, so I guess there is some logic to the results.
For some time we watched the Presidential election results on a Jumbotron with many local university students. I did meet a single meek Gary Johnson supporter (a woman of color, no less!) who asked me about my Peace and Freedom button. Unsurprisingly, most everyone was thrilled with the Obama victory—it's not like they draft kids when they have drones!—and really had a personal hatred of Romney. I guess he'll have to go back to playing the evil vice principal in high school titty comedy movies now.