Daily Archives: June 7, 2011
Fun With Landlines
Posted on June 7, 2011 28 Comments
I was on the home phone with my agent earlier today when the line went clickity-click-click and then dropped out entirely — entirely being where the line was completely dead, no dial tone included… and no DSL, either. So now I am once again using the fallback of the cell phone mobile hotspot. But even […]
Why You Can’t Get My Book in [Insert Country Here]
Posted on June 7, 2011 54 Comments
Whenever I announce a book, I get grousing from people who can’t legally buy or access that book, mostly because it’s not available in whatever country they are in. To explain the details of this, and to give myself a document to which I may refer people when it comes up again, allow me to […]
The Big Idea: Daniel H. Wilson
Posted on June 7, 2011 24 Comments
The robots are coming! The robots are coming! But when they get here with their shiny artificial intelligence-y brains, will they really want to wipe us out, as we apparently expect from most of our movies? What will we do if they do? What will we do if they don’t? Writer Daniel H. Wilson thinks […]
Mark Nevin Knows Where Ray Davies Lives
Posted on June 7, 2011 18 Comments
Some time ago I happened to make the Internet acquaintance of Mark Nevin, genuinely first-rank songwriter who came to prominence as the guitarist and primary songwriter of Fairground Attraction (he wrote most of their fabulous album The First of a Million Kisses) and then went on to write or co-write songs for Morrissey, Kirsty MacColl, […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying