Readercon and reviewing

Charles Brown always seemed like yet another éminence grise you get used to seeing every year at Readercon. No more. He gave us Locus Magazine and made sure it would keep going. Then he died on the way home from the con. All I can do is offer my respect and admiration.

Readercon: the recovery begins

Readercon was fun, but when all is said and done, it’s good to see the sun. I came home with my head buzzing, full of all sorts of ambitions of establishing my own place in the metaphorical sun, to find a yard full of bees, weeds, and red raspberries dropping off into my hand. The […]

Readercon 20 coming right up

Readercon 20 starts this Thursday through Sunday. Even it’s my favorite con in the area, it always sneaks up on me. There’s already friends and teachers I expect to see. And there’s so many interesting things in the schedule, I’m sure I’ll be a blithering wreck by Sunday afternoon. So, my posting may get a […]

One word

Phooey.

Nebula 2008 scorecard

I wasn’t even close. I wasn’t surprised that none of my favorites won, but I guessed only 1 out of 4 right of the Nebula winners. Oh, well. It’s just a game, and I’m not even a player. Someday, someday. Here. Have a another tulip.

Another busy backson day

My new fruit trees (a mulberry and two hazelnuts) arrived yesterday, I have too many stories to read, a big one I’m writing, and I’m about to head out the door for the second night of NERAX. I feel like I should feel like I’m caught in the middle of too much, but right now, […]

Autofocus

I’m not sure I should write about this so soon. Two weeks into it, I was all full of enthusiasm for Do It Tomorrow. Bit by bit, it slowly became harder to keep current, and once I fell behind, it all became just as big a swamp as ever. Now I’m two weeks in and […]

The true virtue of public sculpture

One must when traveling is checking out the view from the hotel window, even though I’m a bit of a cheapskate frugal, so the view is usually pretty blah. This last weekend in New York, we were treated to…what is it? It’s like a giant mushroom foot cloud hippopotamus thingie.

The gasman cometh

I don’t know if this is scifi-related, but I dreamed the other day that Heinlein was our house guest and he was a pain in the ass. Instead of building the house into a tesseract, he took everything apart and left the pieces lying all over the place. There were things as big as engine […]

A Proper Boskone Recap

Here’s what I remember from Boskone. Highlight: Buying a skein of yarn hand-dyed in beautiful shades of lilac, plum, and lavender without any idea what I would knit with it. Not a highlight: Discovering that knitting with other knitters is so distracting that I had to undo all that knitting. Interesting quantum of fact: The […]