On where to put your black swans.
Joseph Fouche has a fascinating article entitled Seizing the Opportunity to Destroy Western Civilization. I don’t know anything about Fouche, although the blogroll he belongs to suggests a right-libertarian bent with touches of joyful submission to authoritarianism (Althouse? Really?), but this article of his has all the makings of a classic for writers [...]
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 [...]
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