Daily Archives: June 12, 2007
Tonight’s Question of Immense Cultural Signficance
Posted on June 12, 2007
At what age — if ever — will David Bowie stop being just so damn cool? While you’re thinking about it, a video.
More People Saying Dumb Things
Posted on June 12, 2007
I don’t know why so many people in literature have got such a hate-on for blogs these days — it must be something in the printer’s ink — but what I do know is when they open their mouths on the subject, some ass-hattery usually belches forth. Over at Ficlets, I document such an atrocity, […]
Ghlaghghee at Mental Floss
Posted on June 12, 2007
The folks at Mental Floss are having a discussion of bacon on the Internet, and of course no discussion of bacon on the Internet would be complete without noting the time I taped bacon to my cat. So there’s that picture of Ghlaghghee, bacon taped to her side. Truly a classic of Teh IntarWeebs. I […]
Mainspring’s Out; An Open Pimp Thread
Posted on June 12, 2007
Congratulations to Jay Lake, whose Tor debut Mainspring officially hits stores today. I had a chance to read Mainspring when it was in manuscript and was absolutely caught up in the world Jay created, in which the metaphor of god as the “Universal Watchmaker” is made real and Jay has a ball building a story […]
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