Monthly Archives: May 2006
Pictures from the Scalzi Compound
Posted on May 21, 2006 14 Comments
Because I’ve been too busy writing The Last Colony to write something here today. Today’s scene involved a sorghum field! Aren’t you excited.
Justice and the Religious Right
Posted on May 20, 2006 91 Comments
The Washington Post has a piece today on the rising fortunes of the religious left, but reading the piece I think the authors of the piece have gotten it wrong. The people profiled in the piece aren’t necessarily left, they’re just not part of the religious right, which at this point is a fairly well-defined […]
Two More Motivational Posters
Posted on May 19, 2006 9 Comments
Yeah, I’m having too much fun with this. That’s it for me today. You all drive home safely, now.
Professionally Photographed
Posted on May 19, 2006 34 Comments
Ooooooh. A week ago, Official US Playstation Magazine paid for a photographer to come out and take pictures of me, an event I thought auspicious for two reasons: One, it suggested OPM wasn’t going to dump me from its roster any time soon, because if they were, why would they pay someone to photograph me, […]
Wiscon Schedule
Posted on May 19, 2006 9 Comments
I’ll be at the Wiscon science fiction and fantasy convention next weekend, and if you want to see me blather on endlessly in a place other than the Governor’s Lounge, this is where to do it: Saturday, 10:00-11:15 a.m. in Conference Room 5 Chick Lit and Chick Flicks—Legitimate Genres or Marketing Ghettos? “Chick Lit” and […]
Why I Don’t Get Hired to Write Motivational Posters
Posted on May 19, 2006 10 Comments
That about sums it up. Oh, and look, I made another one: (You can make your own “motivational poster” here.)
Postcards from the Edge (or from Kokomo)
Posted on May 18, 2006 16 Comments
This is how you make an author feel appreciated: mail out a bunch of nicely-designed postcards letting people know he’ll be dropping by your store in a couple of weeks. And then you also mail a postcard to the author himself, just in case, uh, he’s forgetful or anything. Very helpful. I mean, look — […]
An Illustration for Subterranean Magazine
Posted on May 18, 2006 15 Comments
The Scalzi-edited edition of Subterranean Magazine is getting tantalizingly close to print, and I’ve been authorized to tease you with the above super-fabulous illustration by Bob Eggleton, for the Nick Sagan story “Tees and Sympathy,” which is also super-fabulous, and very funny. The closer this thing gets to being done, the more excited I get […]
Testing Something (Again)
Posted on May 18, 2006 11 Comments
I’m checking to see if this works. Let me know if you can see it or if it causes you problems pulling up the page. Update: Okay, I’ve pulled it. Seems like it runs automatically rather than waiting for you to run it, and I don’t see why you would want that. (This is what […]
When Authors Respond!
Posted on May 17, 2006 15 Comments
Blogger Susan Flemming, partially in response to my recent chatting up of Nick Whyte on Old Man’s War, had this to say: I had always thought that there was an unspoken but universally understood principle of author etiquette that went something like this: An author should never respond to a negative review of their book. […]
Rock Kills Kid
Posted on May 17, 2006 24 Comments
One of the nice things about being in one’s mid-30s is that there’s now a bunch of young bands who think it’s the neatest damn thing to sound just like all the bands from 1983. Case in point: Rock Kills Kid, whose album Are you Nervous? sounds like the boys in the band were fed […]
Wednesday Author Inteview: Nick Sagan
Posted on May 17, 2006 9 Comments
My good friend Nick Sagan has sat for an interview with me, in which we talk about diseases, gold records (of a different sort), and about the differences in writing novels and writing screenplays. It’s good stuff and you should go read it now. Also, you should get Nick’s latest book Everfree, which is in […]
Blast from the Past: Flaming Babies!
Posted on May 16, 2006 16 Comments
Because I’m feeling lazy today, I’ve decided to raid my vast store of writing that’s not on the Scalzi.com site anymore and feed it to you, because, really, it’s not like 90% of you have ever seen it before. So without further elaboration, here’s an article I wrote while I was writing humor columns for […]
Riding the 404 Express
Posted on May 16, 2006 16 Comments
While the site is up, a quick note: My host for Scalzi.com appears to be having some issues with some of its Linux servers today, including the one this site is on. So the site has been down intermittently today. Presumably they will get this fixed, but if you drop by and you can’t see […]
House for Rent
Posted on May 15, 2006 40 Comments
The renters at our house in Sterling, Virginia are heading off to retirement, which means that the house will be available for rental as of July 1. Naturally we plan to put an ad in the Washington Post, etc, but I thought I’d mention it here as well, for those of you in the Washington […]
Ben Bova Loses the Hip-Hop Market Forever
Posted on May 15, 2006 58 Comments
It happens here. Bova is a fabulous science fiction writer, but anyone who quotes Bread as an example of good music or says of the youngsters that “The last time they heard Ravel, I imagine, is when they saw Bo Derek in ’10,’” when that particular film is 27 years old, knows current teen and […]
Another View of Old Man’s War
Posted on May 14, 2006 42 Comments
Nicholas Whyte reads Old Man’s War and dislikes it, which is of course perfectly fine, but also assumes that my personal politics can be revealed through its text, which is also perfectly fine, but (in this particular case) wrong. I’ve added a lengthy comment there, so if you’re interested, go on over and check it […]
The Ultimate Humiliation
Posted on May 13, 2006 30 Comments
Poll: Clinton outperformed Bush In a new poll comparing President Bush’s job performance with that of his predecessor, a strong majority of respondents said President Clinton outperformed Bush on a host of issues… Respondents favored Clinton by greater than 2-to-1 margins when asked who did a better job at handling the economy (63 percent Clinton, […]
Whatever & Mac Firefox
Posted on May 13, 2006
Someone who reads the Whatever via the latest version of Firefox for the Mac says he’s having trouble bringing up the page on his browser over the last day or so. If you’re reading this on Mac, and have the latest version of Firefox, could you fire up Firefox and see if you have any […]
Whatever & Mac Firefox
Posted on May 13, 2006
Someone who reads the Whatever via the latest version of Firefox for the Mac says he’s having trouble bringing up the page on his browser over the last day or so. If you’re reading this on Mac, and have the latest version of Firefox, could you fire up Firefox and see if you have any […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying