My FOGCon panels
FOGCon is next month and here are the panels I'll be on. They're all scheduled for Saturday, and spoilers, my responses!The Lightning Wrath of the Internet (Lori Selke, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Nick...
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Midnight Run
Great movie, at this moment on the Encore: Mystery channel. It's a wonderful caper script about competing bounty hunters, and the Mafia, and the FBI, and a former mob accountant who stole $15 million...
View ArticleWorld Horror Convention programming tips!
The World Horror Convention is coming up. Here are just a few more tips for getting onto programming. As always, these are tips from ME and do not represent the opinions or beliefs of anyone associated...
View ArticleTaxes
In 2010, I spent $1674 on books.Much less on movie tickets, given all the press screenings in the first six months of the year.
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Tura Satana
Cult actress Tura Satana has died.Do you think she'll make the In Memoriam montage at the Oscars this year? If she doesn't, there will be blood.
View ArticleMonday quick notes
This Friday I'm running a little evening roundtable on the ins and outs of commercial fiction. If you're looking to publish your work and are local, this might be a fruitful use of your time. If you're...
View ArticleCritics with Dull Brains
I wasn't a huge fan of the Harlan Ellison documentary Dreams With Sharp Teeth but this review goes rather off the rails—three turds up?—with this claim:he man has written some well known teleplays, a...
View ArticleI'm all about international science fiction and fantasy
From the London Review of Books, on the problem of Mubarak:On Darth Vader: Look, I know Darth fairly well, and Jim, I just want to mention that Darth has overcome asthma, some serious, serious asthma,...
View ArticleThe Most Disgusting Pig in the World
Here's Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, as can be seen in his blog post, Native Americans morally disqualified themselves from the land.And they still don't deserve it: Many of the...
View ArticleInteresting Article, or Someone Else Blogs So I Don't Have To
Over at The Millions, Kim Wright asks why so many literary authors are producing genre titles:What’s going on? Is it a mass sellout, a belated and half-hearted attempt by writers to chase the market?...
View ArticleLabor Day is terrible
Check out the anmiation on http://google.co.uk for a celebration of Freddie Mercury's birthday.Now go to http://www.google.com and note the miserable little American flag with "Labor Day 2011" as the...
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Tuesday is the new Monday
Labor Day: we BBQed the rich ribs, including improvised BBQ sauce after kest accidentally broke a bottle of store-bought stuff. Many things were said and done; it was a true distraction from the class...
View ArticleTen Billion Days, One Excerpt
At the day job, a new bookpage has gone live for our November title, which I love, because it involves a battle between Cyborgbuddha and Robojesus. From the excerpt:Siddhārtha struggled out of the sand...
View ArticleThe Dexter Romweber post
So we've talked about bands like Zebra, who had less than fifteen minutes of fame and still keep at it, doing the same hair metal songs for the same crowd thirty years later. I suppose we can call that...
View ArticleWhat is a potboiler?
I'll never forget how in the middle of this past decade, the new editor of the New York Times Book Review declared that the review would be reviewing more "potboilers"—clearly having no idea what the...
View ArticleTwo concepts people in the nerdosphere might find handy
1. Intersubjectivity. This concept is handy for a number of reasons. For one, it explains why people-even writers and editors-claim that aesthetic quality is subjective. Note, claim. Not think. Nobody...
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Blog Comment of the Day
From Elizabeth Bear's guest post on Charlie Stross's blog:Well apparently your definition of uncivil is: anyone who disagrees with my politics. Yet again, the intolerance of people of your political...
View ArticleFriday Commercial Notes
Over at Strange Horizons, someone likes Sensation, writing, in part:Mamatas perfectly captures how humans are, simultaneously, weird and unpredictable and easily manipulated and stubborn and terrible...
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