A while ago, I proposed an SF Signal MindMeld column on anime, and this is the result. My section is by far the longest, but that’s because I spent the weekend watching anime and was feeling re-invigorated about the medium. I had lots to talk about, and I was still pinging about the subject on […]
In which I'm embarrasingly long-winded about anime: Read More »
I post a paragraph, and you tell me which novel it’s from. When he left the aircraft with the other passengers he had resigned himself to the notorious purgatory of the US Health, Immigration and Customs machinery. At least an hour, he thought, of overheated, drab-green rooms smelling of last year’s air and stale sweat
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Recently, two separate posts have gotten under my skin and forced me to re-examine the book I’m trying to write. (I’m trying, I promise. Really. It’s just that everything I do looks wrong, and this is part of the reason why.) The first is Jetse de Vries Christmas present to the genre: Should SF Die?
Just so you know, I do think about Issues. Read More »
…Award noms, that is. I don’t honestly expect to win any awards this year, but if you want to let the fine people at the Aurora or Hugo that you’re thinking of me, here are the stories of mine that were published in 2009: “Off-Track Betting” “The Chair” “?oyfriend”* If I’ve done my job, then
Ladies and gentlemen, Amanda Palmer and Nervous Cabaret, covering “House of the Rising Sun.” (Thanks, Dave.) This is likely my last post of the year, and of the decade. I wish I had some grand statement to make on the past ten years. I think the only thing I can say is that I feel
Plus, I'm only 26 years old. (My grandma died at 83.) Read More »
Say it with me now: “Avatar is not the Second Coming of Christ.” Granted, other viewers have articulated this same sentiment from a variety of angles. Peter liked the film as an experience but not as a story, and Scalzi explains why that experience works. And both Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz have mined
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Merry Xmas. Please enjoy. These are the Frosty Zombies. They come courtesy of Dave, who shows them to me every year. This clip is from one of my favourite Supernatural episodes:
Unholy creatures slowly do rise… Read More »
You’ll recall that “the airing of the grievances” is a Festivus tradition. At this moment, I have approximately an hour and forty-five minutes left of Festivus, so I intend to air a major grievance. With myself.
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All I ever wanted was a world without maps. –Michael Ondaatje This is footage from a flashmob snowball fight in Washington, DC that was organized via Twitter. During the snowball fight, a snowball hit the Hummer of an off-duty police officer, who proceeded to pull over and exit the vehicle before waving his gun around.
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Tuesday night, my friend Peter Watts was beaten, pepper sprayed, and detained by US border security. Peter, a Canadian citizen, was on his way back to Canada after helping a friend move house to Nebraska over the weekend. He was stopped at the border crossing at Port Huron, Michigan by U.S. border police for a
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