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Up Down Free Fuck You
Up: came home to a surprise royalty check for Under My Roof. Happy Meals for the first six commenters!...but then I wouldn't have any money left. Also, a contributor copy of The Book of Apex, Volume 3...
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My essay on the class composition of the first two seasons of True Blood is live on the SmartPop Books website for the rest of the week, for free. Hey, free content on the Internet. Hoodathunkit?One of...
View ArticleAmerican Gypsies
So, American Gypsies reminds me of professional wrestling. Not the matches, of course, but the locker room segments in which various wrestlers talk about their feelings, relationships, and often their...
View ArticleBad News From The Writer
Got this mass-mail this morning, from Jeff Reich, editor of The Writer:I’m sorry to announce that The Writer magazine will go on hiatus after the October 2012 issue, which is in production now....
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Why Are Geeks Bullied, Excluded, and Taunted?
There are a number of links I could provide, but I'll stick with scalzi's, which is itself a response to something else. Please check out Who Gets To Be A Geek? Anyone Who Wants To Be. The theme is...
View ArticleThe Readercon Creeper
Whatever happened to the Readercon Creeper we spoke about? Well, Readercon has a harassment policy in place, and if the convention finds that a member has been harassing other members, the only...
View ArticleReadercon speaks!
Okay, NOW they're going public:When we wrote our zero-tolerance policy in 2008 (in response to a previous incident), we were operating under the assumption that violators were either intent on their...
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Worldcon's Kansas City in 2016 bid committee
ETA: Kansas City 2016 co-chair Diane Lacey writes that Readercon Creeper hasn't paid up, so his name is being removed from the bid committee list.Guess who's a part of the Kansas City 2016 Worldcon bid...
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Broken Piano for President
Given that the story went "viral" last week, you may have heard that the small press novel by Patrick Wensink Broken Piano for President was the target of an extremely kind cease and desist letter from...
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The Early Bird Gets The Bullet
Amazon.com appears to have BULLETTIME in stock and shipping early. If you were interested in a copy of the paperback, knock yourself out. The Kindle version will be out mid-month. BN.com has BULLETTIME...
View ArticlePFP candidate redux
Rocky "The Democrat" Anderson has pulled out of the Peace and Freedom Party nomination race, despite having won the beauty contest primary back in June. My sense that he was just fucking around, trying...
View ArticleShould Fandom Be Destroyed?
At this point it's an open question to me, or at least I don't have the time now to write a long post entitled "Fandom Must Be Destroyed." Anyway, Exhibit A, the context for which is, of course, the...
View ArticleWho says complaining never gets you anywhere?
The entire Readercon board has now either resigned or announced intention to resign at the next meeting.
View ArticleThe last Readercon post (I hope)
Board's out, Creeper banned...FOR LIFE!!!, apologies all around otherwise, stickers and ribbons reading DON'T HARASS PEOPLE and such and such.
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Ruby Sparks
The Internet has popularized lot of shorthand for discussing characters in not-very-good TV shows and books. One such bit of shorthand is the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl"—a super-cute and awesome chick,...
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I won $10 and a Mars Bar betting against the Google House that Curiosity would land safely and begin transmitting. I always bet on hardware when software goons are skeptical.Pace & Freedom &...
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Fri Aug 31 4:30:am—Fri Aug 31 6:00:am (I sure hope that's not really 4:30 AM!)The Walking Dead: Zombies in Folklore, Science, and Popular CultureContrasting the original Haitian Vodoun concept of...
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At the day job, I'm giving away four copies of Project Itoh's GENOCIDAL ORGAN. Go write a little essay and maybe you'll win!Bullettime got its first amazon.com reader review. It reads, in part, "The...
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