Monthly Archives: July 2005
harry potter
Posted on July 16, 2005 11 Comments
(Posted by Claire Light) just got my harry potter amazondelivered. who else is going to hogwarts today?
Rape Dilemma
Posted on July 15, 2005 25 Comments
(Posted by Claire Light) One of the most distressing things about growing up and getting older is that you run into more and more controversies the rights and wrongs of which you can’t decide at a glance. Is it that the world is getting more morally ambiguous, or am I just getting more tentative? I […]
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Posted on July 14, 2005 5 Comments
(Posted by Eric Magnuson) If you’re like me – and since you’re reading blogs on a summer day, I somewhat safely assume that you are – the internet has worked its way deeply into your daily life much like sand bugger did to Chekov in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan“. How many of […]
See A Guest Blogger Live
Posted on July 13, 2005 3 Comments
(Posted by Jim Winter) Hello, all. Sorry to barge in so early in the week. However, if you’re wondering what any of us crackpots* covering for John look like, I have an opportunity for you. I, your humble Sunday narrator, will be at Mystery Loves Company in Baltimore this Saturday, signing books and generally trying […]
Selling a Motorbike
Posted on July 13, 2005 1 Comment
It’s John Scalzi, popping in real quick. My father-in-law is having me sell his motorbike on eBay, so I thought I’d mention it here as well. If you know anyone who might be interested in a 1965 BSA Thunderbolt in good condition, direct them to this eBay auction here. It just started (like, 15 minutes […]
Mmmm, Karen Black!
Posted on July 13, 2005 27 Comments
(Posted by Ron Hogan) Well, okay, I think maybe John & Brian were the only people who demanded it… and I suppose “demand” is really sort of an overstatement. Nevertheless, here is pretty much what the cover of The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane will look like when it comes out this November: The bottom […]
Pride and Joy
Posted on July 12, 2005 3 Comments
(Posted by Laurel Halbany) I thought it was de rigeur for children of writers to suffer the angst of their writer-parent’s shadow. (If they choose to be writers, of course, which is less a choice than you might expect.) It’s never a problem I myself had; my parents are both educated, and intelligent, and I […]
Trivialities…
Posted on July 11, 2005 2 Comments
(Posted by Jeff Porten) Sorry to break in on a Monday, but I decided that my promised commentary on airport security was far too trivial to inflict on the Republic of Whatever, so I’ve moved it over to my own blog. And a burning question — John collected the guest bloggers’ pictures, Claire has commented […]
Time For A Change In The Language
Posted on July 10, 2005 25 Comments
(Posted by Jim Winter) Last week, I managed to stir the pot with my opinions on Reagan and of the recent Discovery Channel poll of great Americans. One of the results was an interesting back blog debate between my fellow guest bloggers Claire and Jeff as to male and female and gender roles and designations. […]
Vigilant
Posted on July 10, 2005 3 Comments
(Posted by Jeff Porten) Summertime, and the living is orange. I am on the down elevator to the Washington Metro trains, and an abandoned water bottle is on the floor in the back. Upright, maybe an inch or two of water in it. Clear sport bottle with a closed spout, no label. This is not […]
Fifty years ago, and today
Posted on July 9, 2005 11 Comments
(Posted by Jeff Porten) I am doing my best impression today of a highly ambulatory decapitated chicken in preparation for my trip to MacWorld starting tomorrow, so abbreviated remarks follow about what’s on my mind, with permission from the Speaker to revise and extend them for the Record at a later date. Today is the […]
Wombatman Wombegins
Posted on July 8, 2005 37 Comments
(Posted by Claire Light) My favorite joke is intertextuality; I throw it in wherever, whenever I get the chance. Intertextuality is the perfect way to shit on something: just say it’s derivative, or has no existence of its own, separate from what has gone wombefore. It’s an argument impossible to defend against. Love it. However […]
Plans to stir get shaken
Posted on July 7, 2005 15 Comments
(Posted by Eric Magnuson) As a guest host who wants to be viewed as courteous and attentive, I got up extra early today on yet another beautifully foggy San Francisco morning. I intended to offer my contribution to the already robust discussion of writing we’ve seen here in the past week. I’ve been reading closely, […]
Don’t Hate SF, Because It’s Beautiful
Posted on July 6, 2005 7 Comments
(Posted by Ron Hogan) I figured if I was going to be taking over a science fiction writer’s blog, even for just one day a week, I’d better reacquaint myself more fully with the field. You see, I used to read almost nothing but SF as a teenager, until I started grad school right around […]
Sing, O Muse
Posted on July 5, 2005 18 Comments
(Posted by Laurel Halbany) I envy Jane Yolen. All right, yes, because she’s a prolific writer of astounding talent, and I’m a very beginning writer of questionable talent, that goes without saying: but also because her Muse is gentle and kind. Backtracking: of course there is no such real, tangible (or even intangible) thing as […]
All Over Japan, Little Kids Are Shouting “Gamera!”
Posted on July 4, 2005 1 Comment
(Posted by Ron Hogan) Plumes of steam shot out of the sea yesterday off Iwo Jima, the result of an underwater volcano. To answer science fiction and comic book writer Peter David’s question, yeah, I, too, thought it’d be cool if Godzilla poked his head up and said hello. But I’m not disappointed. Peter Jackson […]
Small Press Tutorial
Posted on July 4, 2005 3 Comments
(Posted by Bill Schafer) Bill Schafer here. As I mentioned last week, I make my living as a small press publisher. Along the way, I’d like to think I’ve learned a trick or ten. Not Everyone Will Share Your Taste. A fan of aquatic vampire stories about hunchbacks? Good for you. It’s a corner of […]
Personally, I Voted For Mike Judge. Huh-huh. Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh.
Posted on July 3, 2005 41 Comments
(Posted by Jim Winter) Since tomorrow is July 4 – Independence Day us for Americans – I thought it appropriate to comment on the AOL/Discovery Channel Greatest American Poll. The results were as follows: 1.) Ronald Reagan 2.) Abraham Lincoln 3.) Martin Luther King 4.) George Washington 5.) Benjamin Franklin Um… What’s Reagan doing in […]
Agoraphilic
Posted on July 2, 2005 12 Comments
(Posted by Jeff Porten) Now that I’ve established my credentials as an unsuccessful writer, I’d like to propose an idea to aid unsuccessful writers everywhere—and maybe a few editors and readers to boot. The problem with being a successful writer boils down to two crucial components: You have to write well. You have to start […]
The Coming of the Antiscalzi
Posted on July 2, 2005 4 Comments
(Posted by Jeff Porten) It is perhaps no coincidence that John assigned me the last day of the week, for Saturday signifies the End Times, and I am Jeff Porten, the Antiscalzi. I have no adorable and precociously witty urchins to write about. I live in the selfsame urban metropolis that sent John fleeing to […]
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