Daily Archives: June 11, 2009
It’s Because He Can’t Handle the Zero Calorie AWESOMENESS, That’s Why
Posted on June 11, 2009 41 Comments
Yes, I know about Hugo Chavez banning Coke Zero from Venezuela. You can stop sending me the urgent e-mails and tweets, thanks. No, I can’t hazard a guess why, aside from the rather dubious contention that it contains some form of a harmful ingredient. I think we’ve already well established that President Chavez has more […]
Cat Valente, Working Live Without a Net
Posted on June 11, 2009 15 Comments
Cat Valente is a fabulous award-winning writer and a friend of mine who with her upcoming young adult novel is planning to show you how writing can be a performance art: Starting Monday, I will start posting chapters of a full-length novel version of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own […]
The Zombie John Lennon Has Risen From the Grave and Gnaws You, Yeah Yeah Yeah
Posted on June 11, 2009 11 Comments
Either that or Paul McCartney’s secret carnivore tendencies have finally been outed! From Wired.com earlier this morning.
The Big Idea: Jay Lake
Posted on June 11, 2009 21 Comments
Normally I write a bit about each of the Big Idea authors, but here’s all you need to know about Jay Lake, one of my fave people in science fiction/fantasy and a Hugo co-nominee with me for METAtropolis: He’s awesome. His new book Green? Also awesome. His Big Idea piece? Totally completes the awesome trifecta. […]
SNL Alumni + SciFi Film = FAIL
Posted on June 11, 2009
Over at AMC today, I talk about the historically awful box office track record of Saturday Night Live alumi in science fiction films, a losing streak carried on this last week by the meager box office performance of Land of the Lost. I provide many other examples, plus the one rather surprising exception to the […]
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