Daily Archives: May 26, 2009
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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