Not been posting much
Just been busy. Lesse, I wrote a story for the first time since the summer this past weekend. (Autumn was consumed by Insults Every Man Should Know and teaching.) Kazzie didn't tear out her sutures but...
View ArticleThe Humble Potato
Went here for lunch:http://hotspudsf.comI'm shocked at how good it was. I had the turkey potato. I'd go there every day, but who wants to eat five potatoes a week?Anyway, if you're local, go.
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Some convenient holiday shopping
If you like interesting jewelry and helping people, perhaps you should buy some items at Shakti Shakta, which is savia's little store—she is looking to raise some money for medical expenses incurred...
View ArticleMFA: Not Quite Right
Am I really trolling HuffPuff again for a session of counterpunching? I am. Ming Holden ruminates on teaching writing workshops that The goals of the creative writing classroom as (a) a space wherein...
View ArticleHaikasoru: Attention Internet Shoppers
The Holiday Buying Guide is up at the Haikasoru blog. Please pass it around and/or leave a comment there!Also, I went to the potato store again. This time I had a steak and mushroom potato. It was...
View ArticleWhere does this guy hang out?
Alex Ross, in asking why modern classical music is so loathed, asks why other modern arts get a break, writing The highest-priced painting in history is Jackson Pollock's swirlingly abstract No 5,...
View ArticleThe Death of the Cool
Related to yesterday's post between cosmopolitans and conventionals is the recent controversy over "Hide/Seek", the queer-themed exhibit at the Smithsonian. Here's a money quote from Georgia...
View ArticleNew Google policy
“We’ll act on reliable copyright takedown requests within 24 hours,” Walker wrote. “We will build tools to improve the submission process to make it easier for rightsholders to submit DMCA takedown...
View ArticleSelf-Aggrandizement Corner or MOAR Cool
Haunted Legends, which is cool and thus worthy of purchase—indeed, it's so cool it got a one-star Amazon.com reader review—has been nominated for the Black Quill award. That's nice. So too is Dark...
View ArticleSpider-Man vs The Biggest Turkey on Broadway
Have you been following the saga of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark? The first public previews, after long delays, have been "rocky" by which the headline writer clearly means potentially fatal. This...
View ArticleWIkileaks
So, is there anything about the Wikileaks story, from Paypal and Visa, to "sex by surprise", to claims of "treason", to the fact that the stuff actually made available is largely helpful to...
View ArticleBee Eye En Gee Oh!
Anyone who misses playing RaceFail Bingo! can find a good tune-up match over at HTMLGiant, where Roxane Gay* dared ask why this year's Best American Short Stories is full of tales of wealthy white...
View ArticleWednesday Quick Note
Words Without Borders has published its international horror issue, just in time for...Christmas? Anyway, always worth reading.
View ArticleRiddle me this, John Galt?
What has ten students, no regulation, and a life-span of under three years?An Objectivist-themed college!
View ArticleHow To Break An Aspiring SF Writer Unto Enlightenment
What I usually do is read this story and make sure they get to the very end of it. Then before they start gibbering too loudly I send them over to this link of Hugo nominees. And then they know the...
View ArticleThursday quick notes
A place where I spent a many enjoyable childhood afternoons with my grandfather back in New York has closed down. Of course, I refer to Off-Track Betting.My goal of writing a book that people would...
View ArticleHere we go again—genre vs literary
I read this so you don't have to: Genre vs Literary Ficion, in the Guardian.It must be a slow news day over in England, as there are only mass street protests, a coalition government under great...
View ArticleTwo liberalisms
There are, broadly speaking, two types of liberal. There are those liberals who support liberal ideals of civil rights, legal equality, social welfare provisions, and diplomatic solutions to...
View ArticleThe most class conscious workers in America
are no longer the cast of The Jersey Shore. Instead it's Inmates in at least seven Georgia prisons...[who] want better living conditions and to be paid for work they do in the prisons. ... The protest...
View ArticleReport from the Red Sox Nation
Sometimes I miss Boston:With a new $142 million dollar contract with the Boston Red Sox, outfielder Carl Crawford can now pursue his decades-long dream of running an antiquarian bookstore. After being...
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