Archive for May, 2007
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Where you can go and see lots of creationists!
I like how they use dinosaurs to sell themselves. Click on the lobby in the walkthrough and you get:
Imagine soaring cypress trees, the sounds of waterfalls and children playing with dinosaurs! What other surprises await?
Um. Yeah.
And don't forget this little ...
Posted in travel | 4 Comments »
Friday, May 25th, 2007
"Yellow Card Man" made the finalist list for the Sturgeon Award. And, like the praise-junkie monkey that I am, I feel very good about this.
Posted in writing | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
I had the pleasure of receiving this bit of fan mail today:
From: Tony Stanley
Subject: re: the people of sand and slag
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fuck you
I've responded to him, asking him if this is a proposition or an editorial comment, but haven't heard back yet.
Posted in writing biz | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
I don't really consider myself a Weird Tales reader, but I happened across the magazine at the Nebulas. I ended up really enjoying a story called "Faraji" by Will Ludwigsen. It focuses on a very foolish American languishing in African prison and does a number of things right. It ...
Posted in reading | 2 Comments »
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
Yesterday morning, I was honored to receive the Reader's Award from Asimov's Magazine's clearly wonderful and discerning readers. :-). It was a breakfast event with such fine company as Connie Willis and charming daughter Cordelia, Paul Melko, Brian Bieniowski... and -- much more humble before he finally received a ...
Posted in writing | 7 Comments »
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
I'm in New York City for the Nebula Awards and James Gunn's induction into SF Grand-Masterdom. Check it out, this is the view from my friend Doug's apartment. It's so high...
Pretty nifty, huh? I feel like I clicked my heels and teleported out of Kansas. Right now, ...
Posted in appearances, travel | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18405363/
Just another story from our industrialized food chain. I'd like to see a warning label on all supermarket foods:
"This food product contains unknown quantities of unknown substances. In fact, even though this may look like chicken or beef or spinach, we actually have no idea if it actually is any ...
Posted in food | 2 Comments »
