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…
Over the weekend my DSL=gone. (Last post was actually in the queue before the outage) And while I had a tech scheduled to come out, the line problem fixed itself sometime early Monday. The roughly 36 hours without the Internet brought home exactly how much we rely on it now. Read more…
As we watch ignore the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, I think it is time to reflect on the nominee who could have been. I am talking about a candidate of vision, of character, of purpose. A candidate who could have been a historic first if not for the Read more…
(via swivet) Michael Chabon has laid out to the LA Times just how the attitude of the Literati toward genre fiction (“oh, your genre has cooties”) is kind of stupid. There are a lot of people on both the pretentious literature side (“It was written well so it can’t be Read more…
To all the aspiring writers out there who want to make a bad impression and leave a permanently sour taste in the mouths of not only your readers but with anyone who’s ever heard of you, Victoria Laurie has some tips for you. (Original post is gone, but once released Read more…
UPDATE: Post is locked due to nasty flame war (hidden for your protection) His rant is here, and somewhat predictably there are responses in the blogosphere ranging from laconic bemusement by Scalzi to rhetorical dismemberment on the Feminist SF Blog. I would like to add my own little can of Read more…
Politicians love child porn. It is the ultimate grandstanding issue. It is an issue with effectively no opposing side, after all, if you come out “against” child porn you’ve implicitly cast any opposition into the role of pedophiles and child molesters. There’s no downside. Enter New York Attorney General Andrew Read more…
Nothing particularly profound, but I just created a Facebook profile. Just as with the blogging, I’m a little late to the scene, I guess after you hit 40 it just takes a lot more frigging effort to be hip. If you want to find me, just look for Steven Swiniarski. Read more…
This is just to let my readers know of the Blog Carnivals that have recently linked back to my stuff: Dr. Sanity linked to my AP/Media Defender rant on the Carnival of the Insanities. Observations from Missy’s Window linked to my Iron Man review on the Movie Monday Carnival. Good Read more…
More randomness. . . My spur of the moment comment on this thread over at the Smart Bitches blog may not have won the contest, but it did get a mention that probably counts as a runner up. Yeah, pointless. . . but it is fun.