Archive for January, 2009
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
On Saturday, February 7th at 6:30pm, (that's just a week and a half away), I'll be doing a reading and book signing at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis. I give pretty good read, so it should be a fun time.
Here's the location info on DreamHaven Books, taken from their ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Mercury found in high fructose corn syrup. Which is found in basically every packaged product in the grocery store.
Just another example of what happens when you treat your food like an industrial supply chain.
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Interesting bit from the Land of Smiles. The Thais revere their royalty, and back it up with serious punishments. It highlights an interesting conflict between local values and identity vs. liberal democratic values such as free speech.
The realistic perspective is to observe that when you enter a country, ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28695782/
Yet another window into the industrial manufacturing system we call "food."
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
...has sold to Nightshade Books. It happened while we were in India, and I am very pleased. As I mentioned in an earlier post, this story is set in the same world as "Yellow Card Man." More on this later, but I thought I should at least mention ...
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