Monthly Archives: November 2012

Damn, It’s a Good Thing I Don’t Have to Be Creative This Week

Because I swear to God the entire week has gone like this: Me (sitting down to keyboard): Okay! Time to write something interesting and amusing. Brain: SHUT UP AND FEED ME. Me: I totally just fed you fifteen minutes ago. We had a fruit snack. Brain: FRUIT SNACK NOT REAL FOOD. IT’S HUMILIATED GELATIN. Me: Look, […]

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The Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide Returns Next Monday

Last year in the first full week of December I ran a shopping guide for the holidays, and I think it was quite successful: Lots of people found out about excellent books and crafts and charities and what have you, making for excellent gift-giving opportunities during the holiday season. It was successful enough that I’ve […]

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Vote For the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy in Two Separate Centuries

Through the end of November Locus, the magazine of record for the science fiction and fantasy genre, is doing an online survey for the best science fiction and fantasy of the 20th century (1901 – 2000) and for the 21st (2001 – current). The survey includes best novels in both science fiction and fantasy, and […]

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Life in Ruralstania

For the first time in eight years, my phone provider has given me the option of increasing the download speed of my DSL connection. To an astounding 8mbps! I know, I can hardly believe it myself. And yes, I upgraded. If for no other reason than upgrading will apparently also knock $11 off my landline […]

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Advertisements for Myself

Some quick Monday reminders about things and stuff: The Subterranean Press Scalzi Super Bundle: This is the last week you can get your mitts on the Super Bundle, which brings together all of my current Subterranean Press titles in eBook form for the low, low price of $7.99 (or thereabouts, depending on country and vendor). […]

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Festively Preparing for the Apocalypse

I asked my daughter to prepare a list of things she wanted for her birthday, which is about a month away now. This is that list. In case you have a hard time reading the list in the picture, here’s what’s on it: A horse, a machete, throwing knives, gun lessons, survival classes, a book […]

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When Black Friday Comes

A couple thoughts on the most frenzied commercial day of the year. 1. If it’s fun for you, then go have your fun. As you do, spare a moment for the poor bastards who had to show up at the stores at absolutely ridiculous hours to wait on your ass. It’s not an easy gig. Be nice […]

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Thanksgiving Again

And it’s a holiday I like because hackneyed or not, it is nice to take a day to be thankful for the things one has in one’s life. Last year I wrote up a Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, which one thing a day in November through Thanksgiving that I was thankful for; if you missed it […]

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Today’s Vaguely Science Fictional Thought of the Day

I’d like to take these dudes back to, like, the 14th Century and just watch people freak out at their dance moves. I mean, back then they wouldn’t even have context for the adjective “robotic”. Don’t look at me like that. I didn’t say it would be a deep thought. Just a science fictional one.

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The Existential Horror of Betaness

Question from e-mail, relating to the “Notes on My Personal Feminism” post: Wait, there are guys out there who think that calling you a beta male is going to insult you in some way? Yes, apparently. I would note as a matter of clarification that I think they are less concerned about insulting me than […]

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Monday Is Blatant Advertisements For Myself Day

And here are three! One: Redshirts made the initial cut in the Goodreads Best Science Fiction 2012 context and has made it into the finals along with nine other science fiction books. If you would like to vote for it, or — treasonously — one of the other nine books, the link to do that […]

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Quick Notes on My Personal Feminism

Because it’s been on my mind recently. 1. I don’t tend to think of myself as a feminist — which is to say that I tend to think of people who do see themselves as feminists as people who have spent a more-than-trivial amount of time studying the movement and its various social, political and […]

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