Daily Archives: September 16, 2008
Fiddling
Posted on September 16, 2008 17 Comments
I’m doing some backend stuff to try to deal with some of the slowness I’ve been noticing on the site. This may result in some short-term wonkiness with the site. If that happens to you, don’t panic. It’s not you, it’s me.
Name Your Personal Fairy
Posted on September 16, 2008 144 Comments
Justine Larbalestier, my absolute favorite Australian, has a new book out today: How to Ditch Your Fairy. It’s a YA book with a really fun conceit, and that is that every person in the book has a fairy that has one trick that benefits its owner: Some fairies allow you to always have a good […]
Whatever X, Day XVI
Posted on September 16, 2008 27 Comments
I’m willing to bet that this following repeat, written in the wake of the death of noted film critic Pauline Kael in 2001, was the first and last time Kael and NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt were ever mentioned in the same piece of writing. SEPTEMBER 6, 2001: Fetishizing the Dead Let’s talk a second about […]
A Tribute to John Scalzi
Posted on September 16, 2008 7 Comments
No, not me. There was a John Scalzi back in the 1920s and 30s who was quite the sportsman, playing baseball, football and basketball, and who made it all the way into the pro leagues in the first of these, with the Boston Braves, although apparently an arm injury made his tenure very short. He […]
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