Monthly Archives: May 2010
Oh Crap, I’m Connecting Through O’Hare
Posted on May 31, 2010 55 Comments
I have never once managed to make a connecting flight at O’Hare on Memorial Day. Never. We’ll see what happens this year. See you all on the other side. Update, 11:51am: What? My flight out of Phoenix has been delayed due to weather in Chicago? That’s unpossible! Update, 4:39pm: Hey, guess what? My flight to […]
Wil Wheaton/John Scalzi Fan Fiction Contest to Benefit the Lupus Alliance of America
Posted on May 30, 2010 220 Comments
To begin, behold this exquisite illustration, created by request by artist Jeff Zugale: Yes, yes, I know. Hold on a minute and I’ll explain. But first: Short Form: For the benefit of the Lupus Alliance of America, John Scalzi, Wil Wheaton and Subterranean Press are running a fan fiction contest, in which contestants write a […]
Oh, And…
Posted on May 30, 2010 11 Comments
If you’re not doing anything else with your time today at about 7pm Eastern time/4pm Pacific, pop over here again. Trust me.
Status Update: Sunday Morning
Posted on May 30, 2010 13 Comments
First, dig the bacon scarf, crocheted for me by this wonderful person and given to me after my panel yesterday. It’s notable for a) being very cool, and b) being something related to bacon which I do not already have, which as you might imagine is an increasingly rare thing. I am very proud of […]
Status Update: Saturday Morning
Posted on May 29, 2010 25 Comments
Friday at the Phoenix Comicon went very well, I have to say. Both of my panels — one on Stargate Universe and one on bad designs in science fiction universe — were very well attended, and the latter in particular was a lot of fun because I got to play off of Seth Shostak of […]
Status Update: Friday, Noonish
Posted on May 28, 2010 23 Comments
For all of those who just can’t live, if living is without me: My epically bad travel karma decided not to exhibit itself yesterday and I got in Phoenix without any particular problems, which just means that when I leave Monday I’M DOOMED. But I’ll worry about that later. On the way in to the […]
The Nicest Sports Story You’ll Read Today
Posted on May 28, 2010 40 Comments
You’ll get all teary. Or your money back! (hat tip)
The Big Idea: David J. Williams
Posted on May 28, 2010 19 Comments
Everything you know about war is going to change… someday. We know that because it always has before; we’re not fighting wars today like we fought them 70 or 90 years ago, and those were fought differently than the wars before then. What will the next war be? With The Machinery of Light and the […]
Public Art
Posted on May 27, 2010 22 Comments
A fun mobile at the Dayton airport: The paper airplanes here are actually made of newspaper. I suspect the entire cost of the mobile might be $6.38. But it’s cool looking in real life.
Off to Phoenix
Posted on May 27, 2010 26 Comments
Which means a day of travel and other transportive delights. So I’m likely out of here for the day, although as always in situations like these keep an eye on the Twitter feed for updates on my purgatorial state, because my travel karma is indeed just that bad. For those of you planning to attend […]
German METAtropolis Cover
Posted on May 26, 2010 16 Comments
I think it’s pretty. It’s also the first German cover of a work of mine (or in this case, a co-work) that doesn’t feature a laser-shooting spacecraft. So that’s cool, too. For those of you who are wondering, a) my name is bigger than everyone else’s because I sell well in Germany and therefore they […]
The Big Idea: Robin Becker
Posted on May 26, 2010 29 Comments
Zombies: Very popular in literature these days. But there’s a (zombie) elephant in the room here: In all of zombie literature, there is one person whose needs, wants and desires are woefully underarticulated — yea, hardly a shuffling moan is heard in his or her defense. Who is that silent person? Author Robin Becker knows, […]
3D Movie Prices — IN 3D!!!
Posted on May 26, 2010
Last weekend’s relatively soft box office opening for Shrek Forever After gives me an excuse in my FilmCritic.com column to complain about 3D movies yet again — this time on the topic of the increasingly ridiculous prices theaters are charging for those films. Come read me kvetch and shake my cane! And of course leave […]
The Wife is Strangely Unconvinced I Will Return Her New iPad
Posted on May 25, 2010 70 Comments
But I only wanted to take a picture of it for the blog. I swear. However, any further attempt to extricate said iPad would result in my arm being removed at the socket and me being beaten to death with it, so, here, have a picture of my wife threatening death to anyone (read: me) […]
Once Upon a Time Judy Blume’s 401(k) Went Belly Up and George Lucas Wanted to Help
Posted on May 25, 2010 51 Comments
For certain values of “help,” mind you. No, I don’t know what Judy Blume did to deserve me doing this to her. George Lucas, of course, is another story. Try to imagine the text! No, you know what, on second thought, don’t. Also, no, I don’t have a deadline today. I just woke up with […]
Pictures, 5/24/10
Posted on May 24, 2010 9 Comments
Because I had my camera whilst out and about. Larger versions are here.
Apropos to Absolutely Nothing at All
Posted on May 24, 2010 37 Comments
It occurs to me that with the exception of Agent to the Stars, The Rough Guide to Money Online and two short stories, every one of my books and all of my short fiction has been to date created in my little office here in Bradford, Ohio. That’s a dozen books, fiction and non-fiction and […]
My Phoenix Comicon Schedule
Posted on May 24, 2010 19 Comments
As most of you know, this weekend I will be in Arizona as a writer Guest of Honor at the Phoenix Comicon, at which I’ll be doing all sorts of various things, most of them legal, not all of them involving fishnet leggings. More specifically, here are the panels I’m scheduled to participate on: Fri: […]
The Big Idea: Vicki Pettersson
Posted on May 24, 2010 10 Comments
Vicki Pettersson is in the enviable position of having a successful urban fantasy series with her “Signs of the Zodiac” books, of which the latest, Cheat the Grave, is the fifth. But when any series goes out to the fifth book (or beyond), the question becomes: What now? What next? What’s new? Pettersson’s answer to […]
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