Monthly Archives: March 2009
To the Pathetic Toad of a Person Trying to Use My Site to Settle a LiveJournal Score
Posted on March 8, 2009
You had best hope the IP record I have of you doesn’t lead me directly to your door, because you have a nice, hard kick in the crotch coming to you if it does. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you? Are you twelve or something? It’s bad enough you’re having an LJ hissy […]
Your Sunday Cheese
Posted on March 8, 2009 27 Comments
Air Supply + Jim Steinman = Enough cheese to smother the entire planet. Enjoy. [imeem music=”1x9zcK7mp-“] Oh, be quiet. Just be glad I didn’t unleash the video on you.
RIP, James Bellows
Posted on March 7, 2009 41 Comments
The Los Angeles Times runs a long obit today on James Bellows (as does the New York Times), who was the newspaper equivalent of the patron saint of lost causes, since his job was taking over the also-ran newspapers in big cities and giving them one last burst of life before they finally folded. This […]
Spoiler Statute of Limitations
Posted on March 6, 2009 176 Comments
Last night I decided to annoy some geeks, so I wrote on Twitter: “Note to Watchmen fans: THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY. THE COMEDIAN JUMPED.” Which immediately returned a series of death threats and furious rebukes, so, you know, mission accomplished (note: no, I don’t think any of those people were actually upset). But along with […]
It’s Come to This
Posted on March 6, 2009 34 Comments
Great news, everybody! Someone got hired! For something! Of course, now that the one job currently available has been filled, the rest of you will have to find something else to do. Perhaps pottery.
My Policy On Talking About (Other People’s) Personal Things Here
Posted on March 6, 2009 21 Comments
On occasion, I will be having a private chat with someone, either online or in the real world, and when they come to a part that they find especially personal, they will pause, look at me (the ones in the real world, at least) and say, “now, you know this isn’t for the blog, right?” […]
Because It’s Not Enough to Follow Me Here and On Twitter and On Facebook
Posted on March 5, 2009 33 Comments
The guy who founded Goodreads asked me if I wouldn’t mind making an author profile there (Shut up! He did. He went to my high school), so I did. Here it is. If you’re a Goodreads sort of person, feel free to do that thing you do with other people on social sites, with me. […]
Splitting an Unsplittable Baby
Posted on March 5, 2009 232 Comments
From the LA Times article on the Prop 8 California Supreme Court hearings: The California Supreme Court appeared ready today to vote to uphold Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that banned gay marriage, but also seemed ready to decide unanimously to recognize existing same-sex marriages. Yeah, but how? Prop 8 was pretty unambiguous about […]
Unfilmable
Posted on March 5, 2009
Remember how for years people thought Watchmen would be unfilmable, and then someone went and filmed it anyway? Yeah, good times, good time. In this week’s AMC column, I talk about other science fiction titles that have been considered “unfilmable” — and whether anyone’s planning to try to film them. And then I ask you […]
Rachel Swirsky
Posted on March 5, 2009 22 Comments
She’s simply one of the best young writers in science fiction, and I wish more people would have read her by now. If you haven’t, here’s your chance to start. If you have, then you probably don’t need my encouragement to click through and keep reading her.
Probably More Succinctly Describes The Ethos of the Just-Passed Era Better Than Anything Else
Posted on March 4, 2009 70 Comments
This bit, from a Michael Lewis story about the collapse of the Icelandic economy in this month’s Vanity Fair: The rocks beneath Reykjavík may be igneous, but the city feels sedimentary: on top of several thick strata of architecture that should be called Nordic Pragmatic lies a thin layer that will almost certainly one day […]
Random House Giving Away SF/F Book Downloads
Posted on March 4, 2009 35 Comments
And really, the title says it all. Here’s the link. Pig out, man.
Not That I Was Planning to Send Him a Gift Basket Anyway
Posted on March 4, 2009 86 Comments
But in the light of these newly-released DOJ memoranda, John Yoo has firmly lodged himself in the upper echelons of my “People I Shouldn’t Be in the Same Room With, Because Then I Am Likely to Be Arrested For Spitting In Their Face, And You Should Know ‘Spitting In Their Face’ Is Actually a Euphemism […]
The Big Idea: S. Andrew Swann
Posted on March 3, 2009 17 Comments
The bad news is that today I have a sick kid at home, so I have to focus on her, and not all of you. The good news is that in my absence, you get a Big Idea piece, this time from S. Andrew Swann, talking about Prophets, the first book in his new science […]
Today’s Less Than Deep Thought Probably Better Suited to Twitter Than Here
Posted on March 3, 2009 15 Comments
Ever notice how similar in appearance a chewy granola bar is to those seed blocks you put out for birds?
Paul and Storm and Me and Some Other Guys and a Run-on Sentence and Some Creepy Stalking and Maybe Some Other Stuff Too
Posted on March 3, 2009 38 Comments
The excellent and melodious musical comedy duo Paul and Storm, who I recently saw perform in San Francisco, and who at the concert threw a fudge cake at me (it was meant out of love, mind you, and which, somewhat disturbingly, I still have, unconsumed), have been so kind as to say nice things about […]
Because Now I Feel I Owe It To Him After All That
Posted on March 2, 2009 9 Comments
Judas Priest with Ripper Owens:
Apropos to the Ripper Owens Post
Posted on March 2, 2009 58 Comments
Shorter Michael Steele: Why, yes, Mr. Limbaugh, it would be perfectly all right if you were to dine on my recently-removed testicles during your radio show, chortling like a mad hyena as you did so. That thing where I said earlier that Limbaugh wasn’t leading the GOP? Crap like this doesn’t make that position any […]
Unexpectedly Misty-Eyed
Posted on March 2, 2009 65 Comments
Via Chris Roberson: Like Chris, don’t know who did the actual art. But it sure gets it right.
The Ripper Owens Syndrome
Posted on March 2, 2009 198 Comments
Here’s my problem: Unlike a fair number of people of my general political description, I don’t buy into the trendy sound bite that Rush Limbaugh is the true leader of the Republican Party. The bad news, though, is that for the life of me I can’t think of who is — and I suspect neither […]
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