Daily Archives: May 14, 2008
Either Napping or Prepping for a Monorail Cat Tryout
Posted on May 14, 2008 22 Comments
I’m guessing napping, myself.
A Choice Selection of YA Tidbits
Posted on May 14, 2008 37 Comments
SF Signal, following up on the various discussions on Young Adult SF/F, asks various members of the sf/f community to suggest YA books for adult readers. Interestingly, I and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, my editor at Tor, offered up the same suggestion, for largely the same reasons. It’s like we have similar tastes in books! And […]
An Easy Choice Considering How Much He Looks Like Emperor Palpatine
Posted on May 14, 2008 45 Comments
The Pope (via the Vatican’s head astronomer) says that believing that alien life could exist elsewhere does not conflict with the Catholic faith: The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life […]
Glorious, Gynoparadisiacal West Virginia
Posted on May 14, 2008 139 Comments
Poor, rural, working-class white folks in Appalachia didn’t vote for the rich urban former law professor senator from Chicago. They went for the rich urban former law professor senator born in Chicago instead. But since the vote went so overwhelmingly in one direction rather than the other, and rich urban former law professor senators with […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying