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Brown: Invalidate Prop. 8
San Jose Mercury News reports on Attorney General Jerry Brown’s position on Prop. 8. Saying Proposition 8 violates constitutionally protected liberties, Attorney General Jerry Brown on Friday asked the California Supreme Court to strike down the same-sex marriage ban, even as supporters filed a brief that would erase the legal recognition of couples married before
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Proof of time travel?
I’m sure there’s a perfectly logical and no-fun explanation about this… Archeologists in China are baffled after finding a tiny Swiss watch in a 400-year-old tomb. But it’s straight out of an SF story, isn’t it. via Ananova – Swiss watch found in 400-year-old tomb.
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Shimmer story makes Aurealis Awards short list
I’m so pleased that Angela Slatter has made the Aurealis Awards short-list with her story from Shimmer‘s art issue. Here’s an excerpt from an interview with her. Angela has been short-listed in the Best Fantasy: Short Story category for her story ‘Dresses, Three’, which was published in Shimmer magazine. She has had stories published in
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AMC Five Fantastic Movies for the Holiday Season
My column this week at AMC is Movies for the Holiday Season I am a total sucker for Christmas. Complete. To my very core, sucker for Christmas. Every year, my extended family descends on the house my grandfather built for a Norman Rockwell affair: We’ve got third-cousins twice-removed, there’s caroling, dinner for thirty-four people and
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Snow + Portland + Drivers = Benny Hill
And this is why I didn’t drive in Portland, OR when it snowed. Thanks to David Goldman for the link.
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Come See John Scalzi and Me in San Francisco, 1/16/09
. . John Scalzi and I will be reading together on Friday, January 16, at 7pm, at Borderlands Books, in San Francisco. We’re calling the program, “John and Mary Show You Their Shorts.” And by that I mean that we’ll be reading a selection of short stories. We did this at WorldCon and had a
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Twitters for 12-17-08
11:57 I have things to do. I do not have time to be sick. # 23:30 Still trying to explain Twitter to my husband. Now Rob suggests 140 character skywriting. “You can call it ‘Flutter.’” #
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Puppets? I hate puppets.
I believe this show had what we call a high pee-factor. Perhaps the child is watching security theater. Via Puppet Buzz
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The latest cranky-making update on Rob’s hands
Yesterday Rob managed to contact the physician and the insurance company. THIS time he was told that, yes, of course the physician’s office will contact the insurance company (as if they hadn’t told him that he needed to do that) but they need a copy of the worker’s comp rejection letter first. Okay… Sure would
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Michael Chertoff on the TSA and “Security Theater”
Over at Boing Boing Gadgets there’s an interview with Michael Chertoff on the TSA and “Security Theater.” Towards the end of the interview excerpt, there’s this section. Joel Johnson: Sir, I was really trying to avoid using this term [security theater] at all. But are you actually saying that security theater is an important aspect
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Table of Contents for Clockwork Phoenix
The table of contents of Clockwork Phoenix is up. I’m totally thrilled by the company I’ll be in. Claude Lalumière, “Three Friends” Leah Bobet, “Six” Marie Brennan, “Once a Goddess” Ian McHugh, “Angel Dust” Ann Leckie, “The Endangered Camp” Mary Robinette Kowal, “At the Edge of Dying” Saladin Ahmed, “Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel
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Google Friend Connect
Over in the sidebar, I added a new widget. Google’s Friend Connect. In theory, this will let folks who frequent my site explore the sites of other readers more easily. You can also, I think, share posts on Facebook and the like using this. In practice? I don’t know. If it looks worthwhile, I might
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Adam Rex | The Nebula Awards
I’ve really been enjoying the series of interviews at the Nebula Awards site. Today’s is with Adam Rex, author and illustrator of Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich and The True Meaning of Smekday. During the interview, Charles Tan commented that he enjoyed the puppet video on Mr. Rex’s site. Naturally, I had to click through and
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Remaking a helmet
Sometimes when dealing with props I can’t find the real thing or even a replica of it, so I just have to make it. In this case, we needed a Pictish helmet as one of the apparitions in MacBeth. The halloween stores had loads of helmets, but were strangely lacking in anything Pictish. Spartan on