Last night Rob and I headed out to a friend’s birthday party. Being in Iceland, since the party started at 8:30, that’s when we started getting ready to leave. Don’t ask me why, but every party experience I’ve had here shows that guests don’t start arriving until at least an hour after the stated party […]
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You have no idea how many things I coveted in that raffle and I couldn’t enter a drawing for a single one of them. It was very hard. So, imagine please, my surprise and delight on seeing this in my feedreader today. The Knight Agency Blog: Critique Winner and Thanks! Thanks to those of you
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The drawings are complete and the winners have been notified. For a complete list, visit the website. If you see your name listed, but have not received an email from me, please let me know. I will be letting the donors know who has claimed their prize tomorrow. (Saturday) Right now, I’m beat and heading
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Another Twenty Epics review, this time at Tangent Online My favorite story in this collection is “Bound Man” by Mary Robinette Kowal. Ripped from the past while playing with her two children in her courtyard, legendary “warrior-god” Li Reiko finds herself six-thousand years in the future where she has been summoned to slay the Troll
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Take note, for those of you planning to submit to Shimmer’s pirate issue, of what the Slush God says on his blog. Pirates say “Arrr!”, damn it: no “gh.” “Argh!” is a cry of frustration (it is, also apparently a fungeoid esoteric programming language). I keep seeing this error over and over, and as the
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I don’t often bring up politics on my blog because I have family members with whom I don’t see eye to eye. But this is important. Please read, Whatever: On Moral Cowardice which discusses the new detainee trial law. Everytime I meet someone here in Iceland and have to admit that I’m an American, I
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For the past week, I’ve had a little bit of a scratchy throat which I ascribed to not drinking enough water. Not because I was coming down with something. Oh no. And the conjestion when I wake up in the morning? I probably got pollen on the pillow and just need to do laundry. It’s
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I got word this morning that Aoife’s Kiss would like to buy “Chrysalis.” I am very happy that this story has found a home. Chrysalis : The Husiths undergo Chrysalis to become an adult, but the enzymes involved in the process scramble their memories. As a culture, they are obsessed with documenting their pupaehood, which
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Unfortunately, the battery on my camera died so I don’t have very many pictures of this part of the process. I first removed the lower jaw and then carved out an upper and lower palate for the bear. While I’ll fiberglass all of it, I’ll wind up cutting some away later giving the bear a
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I don’t understand it. Helicopters? Giant marionettes? How in the name of all that is holy did I miss this? There are so many pieces of footage for it. How? How did I miss this? Edited to add: Ah. I missed it because it didn’t happen. No one in Reykjavik saw it and it’s not
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I have a weakness for napping in the sun. A couple of years ago, Rob and I discovered the joys of Incubus, starring William Shatner, which is the only feature length film made entirely in Esperanto. The cinematographer was Conrad Hall (American Beauty) so it’s beautifully shot, but still… Esperanto. The point of this is
Well. Extremely well. In fact, I think I just impressed my mother who is a fund-raising goddess. I tallied what has come in so far and shared the numbers with Jason. As of this posting, the raffle has made $1828.00. Jason did not get the 200 subscriptions he was looking for, but your raffle ticket
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The last two days have been dealing with cases. Nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. So here’s your Icelandic phrase for today. [audio:mybrainhurts.mp3] Heilinn minn meiðir. Translation: My brain hurts. See. Useful phrases like this aren’t in your standard guide book. My biggest problem was that I had no idea what the English equivalent of the
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I was ordering a subscription to the Clarkesworld Magazine chapbooks (which look gorgeous) and the order form asks “Who is your favorite author?” This stopped me dead in my tracks. Favorite. I was just having this conversation with my husband last night about The Sparrow. It is the book that I always recommend when people
Check out the Strange Horizons Review of Twenty Epics, edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi. “Most successful is “Bound Man,” Mary Robinette Kowal’s stark re-humanization of the hero archetype. When the soldier-priest Halldór, hard-pressed by foes, chants the spell to summon the legendary warrior Li Reiko, he has no idea that he is
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