Nothing

Nothing happened today. Nope. No snow, no rain, no sun. Just a cloudy day of nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to see. Nice.

Merry Christmas!

Why are you reading this? You should be sleeping off your dinner. Shoo!

Stuff to (not) do

Stuff to do, stuff to do, and tonight writing a post is stuff I will not do.

It’s cold out

I’m taking the day off, and not doing much of anything. Stay warm.

Ugh

My brain has the dumb. My shoulders has the tight. My feet has the ache. But…

It’s obvious, but thank you

Thank you, O Universe, for the small mysteries that appear in the lens, Like squash bees and syrphid flies and bees like green jewels.

The Mystery of Edwin Nabokov

I’m not sure what I think on hearing that Vladimir Nabokov’s last, very unfinished novel will be published. I can certainly understand his impulse to provide for its destruction if he didn’t live to finish it. Most writers are mortified (pun intended) by the thought of letting anyone see their writing before they’re ready to […]

Readercon writers act out

I promise this is the last post I’m going to make about Readercon. The Reading Aloud workshop last year left me interested in learning more about acting. This year, there was almost an Actorcon track, with a repeat of Reading Aloud and two hour workshops about acting and improv.

Readercon and facing the future–not

At the “So, What’s New?” panel at Readercon, Warren Lapine launched a salvo that current science fiction is doing a remarkably poor job of dealing with the future. As Paolo Balcigalupi said, SF set in the future needs to at least tip its hat to global warming. There’s story after story after story in global […]

Readercon Characters

I supposed I was primed to enjoy this year’s Readercon because I found the very first panel so interesting. The official title was “The Origin of Character in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,” and James Patrick Kelly led off with a quick precis of Julian Jaynes’s thesis that ancient people had a divided mind […]