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5,849 words left to cut to get me to 140K. I’ve cut 25,982 so far during this pass. Exhausting work, but I’d just put it off too damn long. It was about time it got done. It’s a reasonable book length now, and the story’s been scraped down to the core, no extraneous bullshit. Still, […]

A British couple — the record holders for the world’s longest marriage — said on Tuesday their success was down to a glass of whisky, a glass of sherry and the word “sorry.” I think that’s a good way to maintain any relationship…

…the only really cool thing about global depopulation is all the freed-up architectural masterpieces.

Ah, yes, my typical experience in a new city: FATED TO (DIE IN A) FIGHT You last about halfway through your first night inAmbergris – or perhaps until the darkness justbefore dawn, if you’re lucky. You are killed ina random bar brawl, a street fight youinadvertently started or an artisticallyviolent argument. Your body disappears beforedawn

Done, I tell you!!! DONE~!!!!! (thanks, Lysha)

Oh, god, this is the most boring chapter ever.

That one gene, the researchers are announcing today in the journal Cell, is apparently by itself enough to create patterns of sexual behavior – a kind of master sexual gene [in fruit flies] that normally exists in two distinct male and female variants. In a series of experiments, the researchers found that females given the

Ah, fat prejudice: the last one that’s still PC. “…fat people just don’t work as hard or produce as much. I’ll never hire a fat person, and I’ll never say that for attribution. Whether true or not for the overweight population as a whole, I can’t say, but it sure is my experience, and I

… flipping to the History Channel and seeing Terrence Cole, the head of the U of Alaska Fairbanks history department, talking about the discovery of Kayak Island. Sometimes I forgot what a cool education I had.

Screw all this wishy-washy feel-good emotion-character bullshit. SF writers need to blow more shit up.