Null post

If you’re reading this, that’s because I have nothing ready, not even this post about nothing. There is supposed to be a post scheduled if I fall behind, but I never wrote it. So it’s less than nothing.

Water may dampen May

What is it with water this month?

Isn’t tap water wonderful?

It’s over. We can return to luxuriating in clean, drinkable tap water. Our friends who live in Cambridge can stop taunting us with how nicely running water gets the soap off your hands. And I learned a few things from the Late Great Boston Boil Order of 2010:

NERAX is coming

I’m going to be a bit crazy next week. NERAX is coming. It’s a beer festival dedicated to showcasing the traditional style of beer, before it was filtered, pasterized, chilled, and put into pressurized kegs. We’re so traditional that more than half the beers in the festival will be coming from the UK, where the […]

In search of the future at Boskone

In contrast to the trashing given to SF’s ability to predict the future at Readercon last year, last Friday at Boskone, “The Place of Prediction in SF and Reality” confined the trashing to Hugo Gernsback’s ability to predict the future. He sure inspired a whole bunch of other people to do better.

Boskone recap

So what did I do at Boskone?

Phooey

Don’t wanna write. Don’t wanna write. Don’t wanna write.

Stuck

I’m still working on the same little story. I still haven’t read many good stories lately. I’m still way behind on writing about the books I’ve read. Nothing much seems to be happening. And the orchid is still an orchid.

More cooking, less blogging

I really didn’t want to do anything today.

Snope

The world is covered with soft white domes and framed with plowed-up edges on the streets. But am I enjoying the interesting shapes they form? Snope. I just want to go back inside and toast my feet.