Daily Archives: September 4, 2008
Oh, SNAP
Posted on September 4, 2008 170 Comments
Spotted in various places on the Internet, in response to Governor Palin’s “community organizer” jab at Obama: “Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.” And oddly enough, Palin’s GOP role is to try to do to Obama what Pontius Pilate did to Jesus. Mind you, look how that eventually turned out for […]
The Big Idea: Julie Czerneda
Posted on September 4, 2008 15 Comments
How do a graduate student’s observations of fish in a laboratory wind up fueling not one but two science fiction series? Well, first, it helps to have that graduate student be Julie Czerneda, who would become the Prix Aurora-winning author of In the Company of Others (also a Nebula Award nominee), and whose latest novel, […]
Bacon Beans: More Detail
Posted on September 4, 2008 25 Comments
People are curious about the bacon-flavored jelly beans that made an appearance in this entry (they’re actually interested in the whole described event, actually, but I think some things are more amusing left unexplained), so here they are, naturally posed with Ghlaghghee, i.e., Bacon Cat, who as before looks somewhat less than impressed with the […]
Whatever X, Day IV
Posted on September 4, 2008 30 Comments
I’m happy to say that up to this point, the concern in this following archived entry has not been realized. JULY 15, 2003: Strippers With Swords All right, I’m officially a science fiction writer (I’ve got the SFWA membership to prove it) so let me just say this: Please God, never let me have a […]
Summer SF/F Movie Wrap-up
Posted on September 4, 2008
Did this cinematic summer of dark knights and iron men and Chaplinesque droids teach us anything about the state of the industry? Sure it did. And I wrote about what those things might be in my AMC movie column this week. Go and bathe in summery wisdom (or, at least, me cranking out 800 words […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying