At least no one I’ve seen. But the U.S. Government should be damn thankful this happened the way that it did. We dodged a major bullet that could have been way, way, more damaging than this debacle has been. How Read more…
Here’s the podcast. They review their best-of-2010 lists and I actually got props from two of their panelists for Heretics. I’m starting to get nervous, what if John doesn’t like the final book? Also, watch that podcast, I’ll be recording Read more…
So Charlie Stross has posted a lament about the dearth of Utopias in SF of late. If you follow my blog, you may already have a good idea of what I think about that. There are several issues I have Read more…
From another Steve I have linkage to Jeff VanderMeer showing some of the process of revision he goes through, sending pages of his manuscript to red pencil nirvana. It’s interesting to me, because I’m somewhat a polar opposite when it Read more…
It doesn’t do a lot else though. Over time the revenue increase on hiking taxes is pretty much a wash with the downward pressure on revenue caused by the drag taxation causes on the economy. Here is a demonstration in Read more…
Sure, it’s borderline sexual assault and a violation of the fourth amendment, but bear in mind what your other option is. The motive behind the “enhanced” pat-downs is IMO less to do with our security and a lot more to Read more…
Now that I’m done and I can spare a few hundred words for my blog, I’d thought I’d give a little recap on what I think this NaNoWriMo thing was good for, despite some asinine anal-retentive elitist asshat skeptics out Read more…
Well I did it (go me!), 50K words in a month. This is a task I’ve manged before, but never as a conscious act. Before, the few times I’ve been this productive, I’ve had a muse with a whip chasing Read more…
No time with the holidays and NaNoWriMo to add something beyond the fact that I’m still alive, and repost this from a couple of years ago:
More NaMoWriMo excerpts: “He killed her here,” she whispered. “Who? What?” “She didn’t like what he was doing, this place, what lived here. She begged him to move, to take the family away from this place. They argued, yelled, screamed. Read more…