misty morning
It’s a misty morning here in Seattle. I woke up late, with that limp, relaxed don’t-have-to-do-a-goddamned-thing-today feeling. I spent a leisurely hour…
Read moreMonth: November 2008
pigfuck in six parts
A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country…
Read moreFriday audio: You Lied
Okay, after a day of rest and turkey I got all contemplative, so this is going to be a long one. Today’s…
Read morecommunity
Here in Seattle it’s a day of scudding cloud and lemon sun, and the outside world is very quiet: few cars, few…
Read moregiant protist!
Wow, an amoeba, a single-celled organism, the size of a grape. Pretty mind-boggling. Read the New Scientist article here, or view the…
Read moreMIT Media Lab’s ‘Center for Future Storytelling’ (tuh)
I am so very tired of now! now! now! initiatives. So is the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph: Storytelling is under…
Read morewhoa–scary publishing news
According to Publishers Weekly Houghton Mifflin has just stopped acquiring new books. This is a grim day. I also think it’s incredibly…
Read moregirls with Asperger’s
Here’s something I missed last week in Newsweek: Because they may have different symptoms than boys do, some girls with Asperger’s syndrome…
Read moredon’t snort the rainforest
Cocaine use is so not green: Not that this comes as any surprise to those who read our Guide to Green Drug…
Read moreCarkeek Park
Yesterday was a grey and rainy day here in Seattle. Kelley and I were feeling a bit cooped up so we went…
Read moreaudio Friday: Always #2
This is a longish reading (nearly 15 minutes) from Always. Aud, as many of you know, lives in–loves living in–her body. Physically,…
Read morebouncy house for the apocalypse
Wired discusses a bouncy house for the apocalypse: SAN FRANCISCO — In tough circumstances, sometimes all you need is hope, but other…
Read moreCalifornia Supreme Court to hear challenge to Prop 8
Nancy Polikoff reports in The Bilerico Project that the California Supreme Court has agreed to hear the challenge to Proposition 8 filed…
Read moreapply now to the Clarion West Writers Workshop
I met Kelley at Clarion in 1988 (I’ve talked about this many, many times, such as here and here). Those six weeks…
Read morestand on a question of love
photo by Jennifer Durham I’ve seen many pictures of the protests sparked by the passage of Proposition 8 (and other anti-same-sex-marriage ballot…
Read moreaudio wars: analogue vs. digital
The audiophile holy war, analogue vs. digital, has been raging for a couple of decades now. This Economist article (damn I love…
Read morestrong, silent, beer-providing
Kelley and I own a new business, Humans at Work, LLC. I say ‘we’ because we are legal partners in the enterprise,…
Read moreA View of One’s Own 02
ravine, November 16th It looks as though we’re really cranking with the gallery; lots o’ new stuff. Go look: http://an.aviewsofonesown.com Go add…
Read morewe have earned the new puppy that is coming with us to the White House!
(Via Gwenda.) Yesterday was kitten day so today it’s puppies. Tomorrow it’s humans, at work :) After that we’ll be back to…
Read moreauthors’ mews
photo: Murdo Macleod Today is turning out to be cat day. Here’s a Guardian article about authors and their cats: “The author…
Read morea kitten called Lore
I had a note from Jo, a reader of my MySpace blog (which is usually mirrored from here): I finished Slow River…
Read morelatin-american sf
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Tor blog about the difficulties in publishing English translations of foreign SF. (Via…
Read moreaudio Friday: Pinky’s Paperhaus
Last year, Carolyn Kellogg interviewed me and Gwenda Bond for Pinky’s Paperhaus and the LitBlog Co-op’s summer Read This programme. I talk…
Read moreA View of One’s Own
Thanks to Jennifer, we now have our very own photo gallery space. So if you like to take pictures of your environment,…
Read morevitamin D handy for apocalypse
Cholecalciferol by Calvero, from Wikipedia I could have sworn I saw this news about vitamin D somewhere months ago… Radiological health expert…
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