Jason Sizemore is the guest blogger on The Horror Library’s Blog-O-Rama. He’s talking about three women of horror that he knows and has included me. He opens my section with this: Mary Robinette Kowal is better than you. No, she doesn’t think this. ((I don’t.)) And she’ll kill me for making such a statement. ((Yes, […]
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I got up this morning and didn’t know what to do with myself. I had nothing on the calendar. That’s not to say that I didn’t have work to do, but I didn’t have to be anywhere. It was odd to stay home all day. I kept feeling like I’d forgotten something. That’s all right
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The Fix gave a lovely favorable review to The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2, edited by George Mann. It included this bit: Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Evil Robot Monkey,†the shortest piece in this anthology, is a smart tale about monkeys with implants and a cautionary tale of how intelligence can sometimes be
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I have missed performing. And it’s not just the getting up in the audience that I’ve missed, it’s the rehearsals. The process of working out a show is strange and fascinating, especially if you have collaborators that you can trust. We’ve been rehearsing Peter and the Wolf for a couple of days now (minus a
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We got up at eight a.m. to go to see the Statue of Liberty today. The trains were crazy on the way down, so we didn’t wind up arriving until nearly 10:30. I’d been there before, back in college when they still let you climb up to the crown. We opted not to do the
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Not that he reads my website, but my beloved is 43 today.
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No, really. I mean it this time. I’m extremely pleased to get in because some part of my brain was sure that the April Fool’s Prank was totally going to jinx me out of going. I’m relieved my superstitions didn’t play out. And super excited to be going to space camp. I mean, big telescopes!
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Katherine and I headed to Yankee Stadium tonight for the game. She was a Tampa fan amidst a sea of Yankees; I was just there to watch the game. My understanding is that the Durham Bulls (her hometown minor league team) funnel into the Rays so she knows a lot of the players. The game
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Oooo! Oooo! If you are willing to stay up late, you can watch the Merrie Monarch Festival. It’s the annual hula competition in Hawaii and goes all week. Rob just turned it on and I’ve abandoned my work to watch with him.
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I spent today getting props together for Steve and Idi a new play that I’m working on for Rattlestick theater. In the afternoon, Rob and I went down to pick up a rug for the Bully Pulpit, a play about Teddy Roosevelt. In the evening, Katherine and I headed down to the Peter and the
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Katherine and I just got home from seeing Spring Awakening on Broadway which was an outstanding production. Smart, with an excellent cast, the musical is both moving and funny. It’s based on an 1891 play by Frank Wedekind which deals with themes that I can’t even imagine audiences watching back then. Sexuality, puberty, homoeroticism and
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Every sale makes me happy, but some sales really tickle me. This is one is a very happy thing. My first three sales were to The First Line so I have a very soft spot for them. The magazine has a simple premise. The first line of a story is so important, but if you
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Yesterday, I sold “Scenting the Dark” to Apex Digest and felt like, given everything, that I should hold onto the news until after April Fool’s was over. Many thanks to those of you who read a draft of this. Your comments helped me enormously. Edited to add: The story will be in the next issue
For anyone who didn’t click on the last link in my post about the Space Station, it went to the wikipedia entry on April Fool’s day. Now, I know that April Fool’s is not everyone’s favorite holiday, but I have always enjoyed a good prank. My favorite ones are the slow, dawning awareness ones. But,
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Google introduced gDayâ„¢ with MATEâ„¢ in Australia, but the technology isn’t available in the US. Darn. Because this would be handy. Search tomorrow’s web, today! Google Australia has introduced a new feature, enabling you to search content on the internet before it is created. Steps 1. Enter your search term [e.g. footy scores] 2. Select
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