Tomorrow
I'll be a flâneur in the city from 8am through the early evening. (Need to get back to LI by 10PM for Work of Art!)--folks know how to contact me if they know how to contact me. I'll walk anywhere on...
View ArticleWhat Is Art?
I doubt books really benefit from trailers for the most part, and I have no idea why a short story would need a trailer.But I will say that I happened to read "Monsieur Alice Is Missing" the other...
View ArticleWork of Art: The Bland Finale!
Wait, what? WHAT! Huh? But but...Is that "spoiler warning" enough for you all? Anyhoo: Abdi wins. I'm as amazed as you are.All three finalists decided to work with what brung 'em to the dance. Abdi won...
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Theoretically Safe For Work--I Mean, People Work In Bookstores, Right?
Remember The Mammoth Book of Threesomes and Moresomes, the first anthology with my name on the cover as a contributor rather than "and others..." (excepting books with everyone's name on the cover)?...
View ArticleEveryone's a critic; nobody is an artist
My two favorite comments on Jerry's Work of Art recap, and by favorite I mean that ones that made me laugh the most:Simpleton #1, on Abdi: Unfortunately is his work is too black - it embraces an...
View ArticleLiving in the annoying future
Coast-to-coast door-to-door in fourteen hours is pretty awesome.Of course, it would have been twelve hours had it not been for a forty-five minute wait on the tarmac because someone in the ATC tower...
View ArticleGuide for the perplexed
If you talk to me and say, "You're wrong because of X, Y, and Z, but since we won't convince one another so we should just stop" the obligation to stop is yours. I will say, "No, not X, Y, and Z, but...
View ArticleSupernatural Noir
The table of contents includes a new story by me, "Dreamer of the Day." (Link provided to keep your lj friendspage from seeing the same exact info a dozen times.) It's about a guy who sits in his dumpy...
View ArticleRemember Lady Sybilla?
Close readers of this blog must remember her: we blogged thrice about her. Shorter—she's a kook who wrote a sequel to the Twilight books and made a large number of goofy claims about everything from...
View ArticleAnd now, in the ...uh, thanks? I think department
To jump to conclusion, reading these Haikasoru books is almost like paying my homage to Japan’s regurgitators.
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This is a park. Its purpose is to make you an outlaw.
I had an errand at Ramsey's house and on the way ran across this park:Note, that is not a corner of the park, it is the entire thing. It's a small triangular traffic island dominated by a tree, and...
View ArticleMonday quick links
Hey Kids, Free StuffGood writer Alma Alexander is experimenting with an online serial, that will not only have its chapters posted online, but edited online, with changes tracked and whatnot, with the...
View ArticleScott Pilgrim vs The World
Based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic, Scott Pilgrim vs The World is an audacious comedy, a middling action picture, and a generally fun experience. Too bad about the music though, especially since so...
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Girls! In! Spaaaaace!
A little something on the dayblog about Rocket Girls author Housuke Nojiri and the Japanese space program.Also, some real life rocket girls:Leave a comment there if so moved.And yes, it'll be an ebook...
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Time cover again
Did Time really put Franzen on the cover? I mean, they put a novelist on the cover! Of course, last week they had a pug dog on the cover...but still! I was reading the Cheever biography the other week,...
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Heinlein on Tor.com
Been a great week on Tor.com, as a bunch of bloggers struggle to write about Robert Heinlein, who was quite a big deal to a lot of SF fans. (Ever wonder why there are so many polyamorous libertarians...
View ArticleTeam Rocket needs an intern
In magazines and editorial. I mean, PAPER magazines. It's crazy, but people sometimes buy 'em.As an editorial intern you'd get to work with me! Actually, I'd probably just ignore you.
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What Berkeley's Public Access TV Station Looks Like Pretty Much 24 Hours A Day
A photo essay:If you have cable, you should have a local public access station as well. Perhaps, when flipping through the channels you came across a man screaming at the camera about the municipal...
View ArticleGiven how many people go on about their phones on LJ all the time, this...
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View ArticleWFC 2010 hassle
WFC 2010 is coming up and I'm sure the overwhelming majority of attendees will not have the problem I am having, but I thought I'd offer this public heads-up.So today I bought my membership for the...
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