Okay. So I recognize that in the light of everything going on, this is a very trivial question, but it rocked my world today. I was trying to tell Rob this convoluted story about Norwescon and Easter. During the course of which, I said, “And I got to tell one of my favorite bad jokes. […]
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One of the chores to do before we move is to clean out the basement. This is my workshop, so I have ridiculous quantities of puppet making supplies down there. I haven’t had to be selective in years and now, suddenly, I do. I’m sorting things into the categories Take, Store, Give Away. My thought
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Good heavens. Go check out The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Dollhouses as crime scenes. We were just tipped off to a remarkable book, the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. It tells the story of Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962), who was barred from attending medical school becuase she was a woman, but went on, nevertheless,
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I got a call from the fellow with whom we are doing the house swap. The management company is proceeding with the process of making things difficult by giving him an obstacle course of hoops to jump through. He says the worst case scenario is that the move can’t happen until the end of June.
I don’t write poetry, but Lon Prater has assured that I can be a part of National poetry month. MaryRobinette still she can’t set Across the globe, yep, there she goes Some puppet out there has lost its nose!
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Due to a series of events that are likely only to be interesting if you are an SF writer, Jo Walton has declared Monday 23rd April as International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. In honour of Dr Hendrix, I am declaring Monday 23rd April International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. On this day, everyone who wants to should give
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Well, actually Michele Lee reviews all of Apex 9, but my story “Locked In” is in there. Locked In by Mary Robinette Kowal is a nasty bit of text wedged into this issue. The other stories were safe, but this one is downright dangerous. The hazard comes, not from technology spinning out of control, but
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I realized the other day that it quite possibly has been four years since I’ve been in Portland in the spring. I’m basing this on the fact that I have never seen the lilac in our front yard bloom, and we put it in when we put in the new stone wall. The small buds
This Book Of Lights By Takeshi Ishiguro ought to be easy to pack. Right? Huh? It’s a justifiable expense, since we’re moving and all. Right? Right? It’s not like I want it just because it folds or anything.
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I just finished Shades of Milk and Honey. I’ll let it sit for a bit before starting the revisions. And for those of you who have been reading along, I’ll post a chapter a day for you. Thanks for reading along! Off to do some celebrating now.
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CRAP! I wrote myself into a corner by not knowing that detail and have been stuck there for two days. If you see or know Michael Livingston, sing his praises, because he just brainstormed me out of it. Hallelujah!
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Go on, wouldn’t you like to list Shimmer as a one of your votes for Best Magazine or Fanzine on the Locus Online: 2007 Locus Poll and Survey ballot? I thought you would.
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According to my nephew, the Hasby Goon inn on Mars has a library filled with books that are written in a Chinese-Martian hybrid. He says that despite speaking a little Chinese, it’s too hard to read the books because you have to translate two languages at once. The spoken language is easier because they speak
We had the plaster on the ceiling of our closet repaired today. Mr. Miller, the plasterer, kindly explained part of his process to me. I foolishly had the camera turned sideways, but of course, can’t play the video back that way. Except, I found this new thing called Scrapblog, which will, in fact, allow sideways
When Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press asked me to read Kage Baker’s Rude Mechanicals, I was delighted, because I love the Company stories. I was delighted until I started reading the manuscript and realized that the point of view character was male. I skimmed forward, just looking at dialogue. Most of the characters were male.
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