Jun 17
I’ve been on a bit of a Terry Pratchett kick lately, and since I don’t really have money for new books, I’ve been reading some of my favorite of his books I’ve already read. And, since camera phones are a thing now, I’ve been taking photos of my favorite chunks. I chose these for a …
Jun 15
When I saw Liam Dryden’s reblog of Tom Milsom’s latest song, I felt compelled to watch it, despite not really feeling like listening to anything. Dryden wrote: I played this then I played it again and I played it another time and you can bet your dang ass I’m gonna play it some more I …
Jun 11
NOTE: This post was written on 2013-06-08, but scheduled in advance, because I’ve started to notice that my work schedule is heavy enough to prohibit regular blogging. I will try to update this post if important details come out between today and the day this post is scheduled to go up, 2013-06-11. As of writing …
Jun 10
(via Hank Green) Business Insider has published an article called 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other. They pulled some of the most interesting results from this study, showing some of the strongest and most notable divides in word choice and pronunciation throughout the country. If you’re from America, …
May 16
Alan Moore is a great writer, and it’s a lot of fun to watch him talking about the craft of writing. The reason I think it’s fun is because he takes it very seriously, and I’m generally pretty sure he’s right. Not about the metaphysics, because he thinks writing is literally magic, but about all …
May 16
I’ve read the Great Gatsby twice — once in high school, and once last year when John Green encouraged Nerdfighters to join in reading it. The first time, I liked it a little. The second time, I liked it a lot. And it never occurred to me to wonder about whether Gatsby was actually white, …
May 15
I’m staying at a hotel next month, for Readercon, a science fiction and fantasy writers’ convention. With this or other conventions, I generally stay in about one hotel a year, so when I see articles about the secret inner-workings of hotels, I’m always curious. Some of these are a little squicky — I’m certainly never …
May 14
Want a good, fast short story about dragons that doesn’t involve any burning villages? Smaug, MD by Andrew Kaye is one of the coolest short stories I’ve read recently, and it’s up at Daily Science Fiction for free. Doctor Longtooth tapped at the x-ray images with a single gold-sheathed talon. A troubled series of clicks …
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