Monthly Archives: May 2009
Portrait of a Closet Introvert
Posted on May 31, 2009 87 Comments
I was very recently asked if there was something that I knew about myself that no one else believes when I tell them. I suspect that the question was meant to elicit a confession that I was born with twelve toes, or that I get sexually aroused in the presence of yogurt (neither of which, […]
All Dressed Up
Posted on May 31, 2009 25 Comments
Two notes regarding this picture I just found of me and Krissy at the Heinlein Centennial a couple of years ago: 1. Wife (who dyed her hair Heinlein Heroine Red for the occasion) = very very pretty. 2. My eyebrows apparently have no natural arch to them whatsoever. I think it makes me look vaguely […]
Sunday Morning Power Pop
Posted on May 31, 2009 6 Comments
Because what else are Sunday mornings for? [imeem music=”kHy6B0RwCe”] It’s these guys, who I’ve noted before. I like the album, and would recommend it if you enjoy power pop in general.
Somewhere, Someone Needs This Song
Posted on May 30, 2009 25 Comments
Which song? This song: [imeem music=”QGcWD7uNkA”] It’s my favorite Bonnie Raitt song, primarily because when I heard it I was just old enough to recognize that, in fact, you can’t make people love you. Which was a bummer to me at the time. Happily I got over it, just in time to meet Krissy. Go, […]
Today I Am a Man
Posted on May 29, 2009 49 Comments
Hey, look: I finally have an IMDB entry. I feel so, you know. Hollywood. Have your people call my people, babe. We’ll do lunch.
The God Engines ARC Contest
Posted on May 29, 2009 620 Comments
First off, let me just say that you are not prepared for the staggering 1970s fantasy art Gor-gasm you’re about to have looking at the cover to my upcoming novella The God Engines. So take a moment to prepare. Ready? Here you go: See? Told you. The artwork is from Tomislav Tikulin, who has clearly studied up […]
Photographic Evidence
Posted on May 28, 2009 41 Comments
Whilst at ConQuest, I was showing off pictures and in showing off the Scalzi Compound, noted there was at least one picture where the house was framed by a rainbow. This was met with skepticism, so I promised to fish out the picture and repost it for the non-believers. Thus: Totally not Photoshopped. Really happened. […]
Tech Geeks, Ho
Posted on May 28, 2009 10 Comments
Hey Moveable Type/Wordpress geeks: Patrick Nielsen Hayden, my friend and also generally excellent editor at Tor, is the co-proprietor of the also generally excellent Making Light blog, and is asking for some much-needed technical assistance in migrating the blog. This would likely be classified in the “labor of love” category in terms of payment, but […]
Time Warner to AOL: It’s Not Me, It’s You
Posted on May 28, 2009 33 Comments
Time Warner appears finally to be quitting the AOL business: Time Warner unveiled plans Thursday to spin off AOL as an independent company, an end to the massive media marriage formed in 2001. “We believe that a separation will be the best outcome for both Time Warner and AOL,” said Time Warner chief executive Jeff […]
Bummer Weed
Posted on May 28, 2009 66 Comments
Over at Slate, William Saletan points to a new pharmaceutical take on medicinal marijuana that allegedly provides all its medicinal value (relieving pain and spasms, etc) without the not-so-medicinal values (totally getting you high). The makers of the product suggest that their un-stoned version of the stuff — called “Sativex” — is better for medicinal […]
Dipping Into the Mailbag
Posted on May 28, 2009
The week at AMC I dip into the mailbag once more, and answer questions about why steampunk isn’t a big hit in movies, why I’m able to tolerate bad science in Star Trek, and why Terminator: Salvation got slapped around by the new Night at the Museum flick at the box office. Trenchant questions all. […]
Attention Ferris Bueller Fans
Posted on May 27, 2009 33 Comments
Cameron’s house is for sale. Wrecked Ferrari not included.
Action Cats Are Full of Action!
Posted on May 27, 2009 20 Comments
Zeus attacks Lopsided Cat from above! And then (unpictured) Lopsided Cat whaps the crap out of Zeus, because Lopsided Cat is about twice as big and has a low tolerance for adolescent cats falling from the sky directly on to his cranium. It’s all in good fun, however. They do generally get along.
Too Late He Realized His Wife Had Been Bitten By That Zombie After All
Posted on May 26, 2009 23 Comments
You’d think she would have said something.
Before and During
Posted on May 26, 2009 18 Comments
Before: During: After, it will be too dark to see.
Reminder: California is a State in Which Same-Sex Marriages Are Legal
Posted on May 26, 2009 127 Comments
Having zoomed through the California Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage recognition, here’s my basic, I’m-so-totally-not-a-lawyer opinion: It seems like the California Supreme Court has upheld the amendment to the California Constitution embodied in Prop 8 to the bare minimum that they could without actually throwing it out (which, I am led to understand by […]
Prop 8 Ruling In
Posted on May 26, 2009 176 Comments
From the LA Times: The California Supreme Court today upheld Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage but also ruled that gay couples who wed before the election will continue to be married under state law. I’ll likely update with more of my own comments soon. The short form of my thoughts, however, is that I’m […]
Various & Sundry 5/26/09
Posted on May 26, 2009 25 Comments
What’s going on in my head: 1. First, another quick shoutout to the folks who put together and participated in ConQuest 40, which I have just come back from. It was an excellent con, for several reasons. First, and most directly relating to me, they kept jamming barbeque down my throat all weekend long, and […]
China Miéville on Crime Novels
Posted on May 26, 2009 42 Comments
China Miéville’s new novel The City & The City hits the stores today, and it’s a novel that simultaneously fulfills Miéville fan expectatation and is something that they never would have seen coming. Fans of the author almost certainly expected a complex and satisfying tale of a fantastic city real enough that you get the […]
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