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The Avengers
The Avengers is an above-average movie of its type, thanks largely to Joss Whedon's ability to write for and block ensemble casts. This is very handy as in the third acts typical of superhero films,...
View ArticleThe Presidential primary season is heating up!
What? The primaries are getting hot? Well, if you live in California and actually believe in peace and freedom*, they are. Kinda. PFP is a California-only party right now with national aspirations, so...
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and I am still no better than the Nazi's, the KKK, or any other group that targets others because they are different.
View ArticleMy Father vs Katy Perry
Regular readers may remember the time when my father met Tom Cruise and taught him how to fake operating a crane for The War of the Worlds. Well, yesterday, he met Katy Perry, also on the pier. She...
View ArticleBack into the valley
So, I've been reading Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, which is a quasi-pornotopia. Sex is utterly everywhere in the book, and it's post-capitalist—no scarcity and quantity becomes quality....
View ArticleKindle notes
After several months exile due to the conflict between Amazon and IPG over giving Amazon three percent of for a "co-op", my novel Sensation is back on Kindle. I'm sure IPG backed down, and charged its...
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Wednesday Notes, Also TIDELAND
Over at Team Rocket, we're pleased to note that both Mardock Scramble and The Lord of the Sands of Time are getting some Hollywood action.Red Plenty is out in the US! (I read the import a few years...
View ArticleRaising Our Children to Be Gay
This is today's freak-out:For those too lazy to click, it's a toddler singing a song in church, to the applause of the congregation. The refrain, and I presume the title, of the song is "Ain't No Homos...
View ArticleA rare email
I always send some preliminary remarks to students whose work is going to be workshopped a day or two before class, to prepare them for what they will hear from me and might hear from their classmates....
View ArticleWhen is a science fiction writer not a science fiction writer?
Over at Tor.com, the person who writes their Genre in the Mainstream column—that is, the column which seeks to claim writers such as Brautigan and Millhauser as writers of the fantastic—has this to say...
View ArticleDark Faith II table of contents
A couple of years ago my story "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz Jesus Christ" was in an anthology called Dark Faith. There is now a second volume of the book coming call, Dark Faith II: Faith Darker!...
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Peace and Freedom
In California it's primary day tomorrow. And as it turns out, there are more candidates for PFP than previously revealed. The state has allowed a number of official write-in candidates:# Leon Leo Ray,...
View ArticlePrimary Follies
Scene: a local junior high school cafeteria. Three POLL WORKERS are milling about, not doing much, when NK walks in.NK: Hi, I'm here to vote.POLL WORKER #1 (wrinkled old white man, face looks like a...
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An Interview with Barry Graham
[As one-liners and "hurh hurh lookie this news article" posts are better via Twitter and Facebook, I'm experimenting with longer pieces here on lj. Enjoy the first of these, an interview with author...
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Ray Bradbury
It was interesting to see the collective grief in the nerdosphere today with regards to the death of Ray Bradbury. Until yesterday, most of the talk around Bradbury had been heavily critical for some...
View ArticleCrush the fascists like hot grapes
Have you heard or seen this?Don't leave it up to your Stalinist thea, people; ultimately she can't get it done. And if one-on-one Golden Dawn thuggery is limited to playground windmilling (fascists...
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Shocklines sig sheets
Wow, this book might actually happen sooner (after a decade!) rather than later. Whoduh thunk it?Posted via LiveJournal app for Android.
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PROMETHEUS
Prometheus is an exceptionally well-done stupid movie. Imagine someone deciding to update the Wagnerian opera in all its epic scope and majesty for the twenty-first century, and then determining that...
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Moonrise Kingdom
I was so disappointed with Prometheus that I went right back to the movies and saw Moonrise Kingdom and the artsy-fartsy theater where all the workers dressed like Boy Scouts in celebration of the...
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Twofer Tuesday
If you live in the US and are by a bookstore, this book:The Mammoth Book of Steampunk is on the shelves now. This anthology is mostly recent reprints, but it does contain some new stories, such as my...
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