pet pictures
The pecking order
The order of precedence for the feline segment of the household, illustrated in three images:
Uncategorized
And they’re racists too? Who knew?
Two weeks after I called it, Al-Qaida has gone and played the race card. “House Negroes“? Makes the French seem quaint. (A tan? Oh, he’s black? I see, humor.) Then again, there’s the rest of Europe. (“The end of the white man’s civilization!”, “Uncle Barack’s Cabin!”, “Africa conquers the White Read more…
real life
Good luck Toby. . .
Friend, fellow Ohio writer and former hamster Toby Buckell has ended up in the hospital, having gone into the ER with “shallow breathing and a high heart rate.” Send good thoughts his way. . . after all this guy is so cool he’s live-blogging his own hospital admission.
politics
Those fifteen minutes? They’re up.
Joe the Plumber has written a book, or has had a book written for him. Now I have no gripe with the guy, and I bear him no ill will, but I will say that the details of the book “deal” seem sort of, well, odd. First off, I’d think Read more…
appearances
Windycon
I’m flying out to Chicago today to attend Windycon, my last con-going for 2008. If you’re going to be there, here’s my schedule of events: Saturday 1400: Autographing Saturday 1600: SF 9/11 Saturday 1900: Building a Military SF Library Sunday 1000: Mistakes That Go Boom Sunday 1100: Future Combat: Hearts Read more…
publishing
It never ends. . .
About those counters I have in the sidebar here: In one sense they tell you (and me) how close to completion a given project is. In another sense, they’re a lie. I am tracking, essentially, the progress of a first draft. A worthy achievement, but nowhere near actually done. My Read more…
internet
Recurring Theme: U 2 CAN RITE ROMANCE
Perhaps you remember my post about this wonderful website brought to my attention by the Smart Bitches. That post was well intentioned, if completely clueless. Now the Smart Bitches have highlighted an equally craptastic post of a bit more sinister bent. I present to you “Got The Thing In Becoming Read more…
politics
The amusing pathology of UK local government
Please note, these all come from a country with a chattering class that believes the United States is just this far from a totalitarian fascist state. (They may be right, but that isn’t the point.) All via Weird Universe. Bournemouth Council bans 18 Latin terms, including the word “via”, because Read more…
asshat
Breaking news, Denise Spellberg is still an asshat
I wanted to write a follow-up to two other blog posts I wrote back last summer. The story at that point was as follows: Sherry Jones writes The Jewel of Medina, a historical novel that features one of Mohammad’s wives. She sells it to Random House. Random House sends an Read more…