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Tomorrow's Game
Tonight, in jiujitsu class, while rolling, this happened to me.So...what do you think?View Poll: Second toe, right footWe'll find out in the morning! This might be my first ever trip to an emergency...
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Broken
Broken. A spiral fracture of the proximal phalange. A hard-sole shoe for now, podiatrist on Monday or Tuesday. It doesn't look or feel so bad. Almost no waiting in the ER either. First thing in the AM...
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Final Score, or #TeamBreezy? More Like #TeamSeizie! Amirite?
Here's my fifteen seconds of Twitter fame:Too bad none of my tweets about Bradley Manning or the BART strikers or even other celebrities have gained as much traction. On the plus side, I was called a...
View ArticleQUOTES EVERY MAN SHOULD KNOW, a FAQ
So, by the morning Quotes Every Man Should Know should be out. Online, in stores, that sort of thing. A brief FAQ follows.1. Why did you write this book?Quirk Books asked me to, because I did a good...
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Who are the Jews for Jesus even targeting with this?
I thought, with the line drawing and everything, that this was a NAMBLA pamphlet or an ironical zine when I found the brochure on the street:And it's really about Bieber, until Jesus gets whistled in!
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Friday Quick Notes
Toe is healing, it seems. It's gone from taking me twice as long to walk anywhere to merely fifty percent longer. On Tuesday, the doctor re-set the bone, the hard way. It was really something....
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Europa Report
Europa Report is a thoughtful, artful, science fiction film that approaches the quality of a well-rendered science fiction story. That is, it almost completely makes sense, characters are drawn out in...
View ArticleTuesday quick notes
It's H. P. Lovecraft's birthday. Clearly you should celebrate by buying The Damned Highway, by me and Brian Keene, and not Lovecraft's own stuff, which will do him no good and which you can read,...
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Worldcon scheduling
The Worldcon panel program and event schedule is out! My Japanese colleagues have several interesting panels, which I'd recommend members attend:The Cthulhu InternationaleFriday 14:00 – 15:00H. P....
View ArticleNewsflash: I am a genius!
In other news, here's the first early review of Love Is the Law, out next month:I realize that was a somewhat disingenuous tweet. While it is possible I may read a better book this year, the likelihood...
View ArticleA Worldcon Guide: the Care and Feeding of Me
As you know, science fiction conventions can be a great place to meet people, and interact with fans and online acquaintances. In recent years, before large cons, folks have taken to blogging about...
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My Bloody Valentine
My Blood Valentine was once one of my favorite bands. It's not that MBV got worse over the years; they simply did nothing over the years. Virtually nothing, anyway. I was one of the people who spent...
View ArticleMonday Monday!
Just one note today, for my old crew in Boston.Tonight!Toh EnJoe!At the Burlington, MA Barnes and Noble, 7PM.Reading from the weirdest fiction title of the year...Self-Reference ENGINE.Go.
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The new investigation into the author’s life claims that Salinger left behind explicit instructions to his estate to publish five books beginning in 2015. The New York Times reported that Salinger’s...
View ArticleAt Worldcon!
Here I am in San Antonio, and my day job, Haikasoru, aka Team Rocket, is having a party!8PM-11PMAt the Rivercenter!Suite 3226!There will be squid.
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Worldcon
Best place for Worldcon updates is Twitter. (I am nmamatas.)For exampele, this sign was hanging outside the business meeting:
View ArticleCthulhu follies
At Worldcon, heard many great things about programming, including a non-racist "future of border protection" panel thanks to firm panel moderation.On the other hand, on the Cthulhu Internationale...
View ArticleHaikahugo!
Team Rocket wins its first Hugo Award! Congrats to Ken Liu for "Mono No Aware."
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Worldcon
So, Worldcon. The Japanese had an excellent time, of which I am glad. Our Thursday night party--the salmon jerky and dried octopus tentacles especially--was a hit. And the J panels I'd constructed...
View ArticleI know when I'm being horrible.
Do you?This may well be the most awful legitimately published short story not written by Mike Resnick that I've ever read.
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