thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | December 18, 2009
I’m late to this party, but when I found it via Making Light I couldn’t resist blogging about it: Candace Sams, author of Electra Galaxy’s Mr. Interstellar Feller (mass-market paperback, Dorchester/Love Spell), has exploded all over a comment thread on Amazon. She’s posting as Niteflyr One, but the comment thread has her ID’d as the [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 11, 2009
Internet trolls are fascinating creatures. They live in the nooks and crannies of the internet, eager to pounce on any unwary passer-by. I find the psychology fascinating, as trolls almost always advocate a political point of view, and do it exceedingly badly. So badly that one is often left wondering if they secretly pull for [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 4, 2009
Michael Wolf decided to make a complete asshat of himself. I’ll let you ponder the following thesis: HarperCollins does not really believe Sarah Palin has written a valuable book—or even that it is really a book, not in the way that HarperCollins has historically understood books, or in the way that people have counted on [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 1, 2009
Celebrities belong to a different class of people, they are not subject to normal petty laws short of perhaps murder. Even then, you often see the accused, and the fans of the accused, twist facts to the breaking point to portray any prosecution as persecution. Even when the bastard pleads guilty. In the case of [...]
S Andrew Swann | September 14, 2009
UPDATE: Turns out the “official” 60K-70K figure wasn’t so official. In fact it was some guy talking out his ass. (Still working on fixing this blog, sheesh.) UPDATE: Some less questionable figures here. Don’t you wish the MSM could do basic math? We had somewhere between seventy thousand and two million people march into Washington [...]
S Andrew Swann | September 7, 2009
Van Jones has quit the Obama administration, so apparently I can’t use him to point out to people that, no, actually this really is a radical left administration. It’s a shame, because it was really interesting to hear the rationalizations when someone says that “no this really is a center left administration,” and you bring [...]
S Andrew Swann | August 17, 2009
Nancy Pelosi faces a horrifying disruption at a town hall meeting (here via here): By the way, speaking of Democrats revising their publicly declared policy positions: We all know that all this “Death Panel” stuff is crazy talk, hell Obama himself has called such arguments “dishonest,” problem is, he’s also said this about his grandmother: [...]
S Andrew Swann | August 11, 2009
Strangely enough, I try not to demonize and/or ridicule people for their political beliefs. When I hand out asshats, I’m doing so for statements and actions that define a universal Platonic ideal of stupidity. So Pelosi is here not because of her political views, which I find the philosophical equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard, [...]
S Andrew Swann | July 20, 2009
And her name is Janeane Garofalo. Hear me out here. Kaufman’s genius, or his insanity, was to blur the line between performance and reality to the point where the audience’s reaction (is this really happening? Is this guy serious?) becomes part of the act. Unlike some latter-day acts (can you say, Borat?) he managed to [...]
S Andrew Swann | July 1, 2009
I have mentioned before that there are certain rules that authors should abide by when gliding across this meadow of rainbows and unicorn farts we call the internet. It is not all smileys and lolcats out there, and forewarned is forearmed. Anyway, most rules boil down to (to paraphrase John Scalzi) don’t be a dick. [...]
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