Today is the last day to get your submissions in for Shimmer’s Clockwork Jungle Book special issue. This is going to be a spectacular issue. Just wait until you see the art… So, hurry. Finish that story and submit.
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The intarwebs use the word sockpuppet to mean someone who has created a character for the purpose of supporting his or her arguments by pretending to be someone else. Let’s take a look at that term, shall we? Most puppets fall into five basic categories broken down by the method in which they are manipulated.
The first thing you should know when you call hardware stores in NYC to see if they have axes, is that all of them, without exception, will ask you who you are planning on killing. The second thing you should know is that after you pick up the axe, you will have no problems finding
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So, that box the post office tried to deliver yesterday wasn’t Shimmer. It contained my contributor copies The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, volume two. Keen! I want to give a shout out Mike Munsil, who created Liberty Hall Writers, an online group that does weekly flash challenges. My story, “Evil Robot Monkey” came
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I arrived home today to a flurry of compliments about the art issue of Shimmer and a slip from the post office saying that they were sorry they’d missed me. Curses! Now I must wait still longer to see this issue. Sure, sure… I’ve been looking at the galleys and such, but it’s different when
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This very interesting, but too short article talks about the use of sailing ships to reduce carbon emissions. An excerpt: French vineyard owners are returning to a slower pace of life by starting to export their wine by sailing boat – a method last used in the 1800s – to reduce their carbon footprint. Later
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We just got home from the Oscar party at Jodi and Sam’s. It’s an annual affair with them and quite the soirée. This year was a little odd for me. Somehow, I managed to miss seeing all but two of the films on the awards tonight. I saw Golden Compass and Sweeney Todd. That’s it.
I was given an ARC of Scott Mebus’s Gods of Manhattan The basic premise is that a parallel, magic, Manahatta exists throughout Manhattan. It is inhabited by the Gods of Commerce, The Best China, Guilt, Opposite Side of the Street Parking, and the like. These gods used to be mortals, but after their death if
The 2007 SFWA(R) Final Nebula Awards(R) Ballot is up. I figure that everyone and their uncle is posting the whole list so I’m just linking to it. “For Solo Cello” didn’t make the cut. Sadness. BUT Titanium Mike by David Levine did, which has me very pleased because I liked that story a great deal.
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For the past week and a half I have looked at every sofa on Craig’s List plus visiting live stores looking for “the” sofa for the production I’m doing props for. Some things I have learned. There are more ugly couches than attractive ones. Brown couches tend to be leather. There are a lot of
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Thanks to bachsoprano for pointing this out.
Smoke on the Water, Japanese style Read More »
Did you know that you can’t be a NY Notary Public if you’ve been convicted of “jostling.” That would wipe out everyone who’s ever ridden the subway.
Today I turned in a postcard design, built a set piece for one show, and picked up, delivered, and cleaned a couch for another show. I’m, once again, working on two — no wait — three shows at once. My posts this week may be scarce. But I wanted to say how deeply grateful I
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Some time ago, Rob and I made the decision not to have children. I am blogging about it now because, having just had my thirty-ninth birthday, I was chided by people saying some variant on, “You’d better get busy.” Honestly, the pressure to have children from friends and family gets quite wearing. These are people
This is one of my favorite Sesame Street videos. The song totally sticks in my head. Plus, at 1.01, if you watch the lower right corner of the screen, Jim Henson’s head flashes for a moment. First time I’ve seen that.
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