The Lead, And How to Swing It
Insanely prolific blogger and book reviewer James Nicoll has a contest entitled Because My Tears Are Delicious To You. James has a lack of patience for exceptionally bad SF, along with a notoriously long idiosyncratic list of things in SF that especially set him off, and is challenging people to write the ultimate “make [...]
Annoyed at myself for being annoyed at myself for being annoyed at myself…
The other day, I was reading one of my own Journal Entries, trying to remind myself of why I wrote them and get back into the groove of writing them again. Now that I’m doing freelance work, though, I don’t have as much time to write as I used to. I have to produce value, [...]
This years Literary Bad Sex awards are out!
And while I agree that Philip Roth’s The Humbling deserves first place, I have to hold a special place in my heart for Ten Storey Love Song:
Meanwhile, down in Vaginaland, Mr Condom’s beginning to feel a bit iffy. He’s overheating. For some reason, the shagging seems to be twice as fast this evening, and [...]
Your Characters and the Monkeysphere…
The Dunbar Number is the upper limit on the number of other people with whom one can have interpersonal relationships. This restriction is purely cognitive, a result of evolutionary pressures, and it tops out at about 150 people. Robin Dunbar gave a great presentation on his work, and Cracked magazine has a brilliant exposition on [...]
New Yowler story up, Ohio Stray
As those of you hungry for more stories have noticed, Ohio Stray went up this morning, on schedule (yay, Django!). This was one of the very first Yowler stories, and it’s surely one of the better. The notes I collected had a gigaton of extra things– details on 4H in Ohio in 1904, how the [...]
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