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Matt Cheney’s got a great post up – What if the Presidential debates were run by SF fans? They might go something like this: MODERATOR: Welcome to the first World Science Fiction Presidential Debate, sponsored by Tor Books and Baen Books. Let’s start right off. What do you think about the threat of clones and/or […]

Bear with me, as I am resurfacing from the land of the dead… Only to read via mousewords about a woman’s “romantic” memoir about her discovery of self through sodomy: “You open your ass and you open your mind and you open your heart.” WTF? Oh. She’s from New York. I mean, what kind of

Me: Hey, Jenn, I just finished the copy of Zelazny’s Guns of Avalon that you loaned me. My buddy Jenn: Great! How did you like it? Me: It was cool. Zelazny does in 200 pages what all these other writers do in a ten book series. Though, if we put Martin into that category… I’d

I’m finishing up Angela Carter’s Heroes & Villains (which I enjoy because it’s – because it’s Angela Carter), and there’s this quote at the beginning: “Ou fuir, dans un pays inconnu, desert, ou habite par des betes feroces, et par des sauvages aussi barbares qu’elles?” Now, my grandmother is from France (she was a war

I’m taking tomorrow off work to do some less distraction-filled fiction writing. Just got back from lunch, where I was told that my credit card had expired ::insert a moment of mind-numbing terror here:: Gave over my bank card. Unfortunately, my bank card only had $10 on it, and lunch came to $11.53. To my

This is how the debate should have run. Now *that* would have been a smart, informed, pissing contest. Smart guys are hot.

Wheee! The Ladies’ Auxillary is going to Iraq! To teach Iraqi women how to be “real women” instead of Evil Feminists! Go Lynn Cheney! And, for something completely different: Be sure to check out Team America sneak peaks coming in on the 9th, with an opening day of the 15th. If you haven’t heard about

My buddy Jenn forwarded this to me: THE SECRET DIARY OF EDITOR #19! And, my personal favorites: THE SECRET DIARY OF CLUELESS NEWBIE #43 and THE SECRET DIARY OF FRUSTRATED WRITER #77

Yesterday was the third day in a row of fighting classes, and I still haven’t managed to shake this cough of mine, and it appears to be culminating in the loss of my voice (this happens at least twice a year, during the changing of the major seasons). So at about 40 minutes into class

Sorry so quiet today – I spent all morning trying to figure out where I’d found this: It’s here. I found a commenter over at Atrios who pointed faithful readers this way… I only managed to catch about 20 minutes of the VP debate, because I’m still fighting off some sickness, and I had my