25 things, belatedly
In early 2009, there was a meme going around: post 25 random things about yourself. I thought about posting a... (More...)
In early 2009, there was a meme going around: post 25 random things about yourself. I thought about posting a... (More...)
I realized a while ago that although I had written up various versions of this story in various contexts, I've... (More...)
Excellent open letter to Pixar from Linda Holmes, asking for a movie featuring a girl who is not a princess.... (More...)
The most commonly asked question about my new house, in all online contexts, has been "Where is it?" I've mentioned... (More...)
Remember how the other day I wrote about not wanting to talk about house stuff to keep from jinxing it?... (More...)
I recently bought a photo to digital converter. It's basically a digital camera in a box; you slide the print... (More...)
For my birthday, as I noted at the time, a bunch of friends got me a zeppelin ride, and the... (More...)
As I've noted before, the 1st of May is not exactly Kam's and my anniversary, but it's the anniversary of... (More...)
I've observed for a while now (or perhaps I should say "believed") that people generally tend to notice evidence that... (More...)
The Internets have been full of panic and outrage today over Amazon allegedly instituting a new policy that any book... (More...)
A long discussion of anonymity and pseudonymity. (More...)
A year ago, I saw a video made by Disney, some kind of management-training sort of thing. It had various... (More...)
"Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, [and] turning on your home computer to read the day's... (More...)
Last night, I thought to myself, "Isn't it about time for the solstice?" But then I forgot to check. Fortunately,... (More...)
I'm still planning a post about author gender issues in general, but for now I just want to mention one... (More...)
A couple of weeks ago, I read a particularly long run of submissions with particularly unfortunate anti-woman aspects. All sorts... (More...)
Lengthy notes on stuff I like in fiction. (More...)
I think I joined the original Six Degrees site, way back when it first launched, just 'cause I was curious... (More...)
tacityhydra just mentioned the Mo Movie Measure in passing; I was going to post this comment in response to that... (More...)
In the past few weeks, the lesson that the Universe seems intent on teaching me, over and over and over,... (More...)
It occurred to me the other day that I have an awful lot to be thankful for. My life is... (More...)
Third session of my roleplaying game (out of a planned total of four) was on Sunday. It didn't go as... (More...)
I could have sworn I'd written and posted this somewhere before, but various searches are turning up no sign of... (More...)
Feel free to use the following cogent and unanswerable argument whenever this topic comes up. (More...)
On December 1, 1997 (almost ten years ago), I received an odd piece of email, from someone I didn't know,... (More...)
I was thinking about various issues around transsexuality a few months back, and a question occurred to me. This is... (More...)
As has been widely noted, on this year's Hugo ballot there's only one work by a woman among the twenty... (More...)
I'm most of the way through re-reading the original Earthsea trilogy. This morning, came across a line I particularly liked:... (More...)
Some thoughts on form, style, and content, in various kinds of writing. (More...)
We at Strange Horizons have just about filled up our publishing schedule for 2006, and have started on 2007. Interestingly, even though still only about 33% to 40% of our submissions are by women, in 2006 two-thirds of the stories we're publishing are by women. (More...)
In my talk with my Uncle Paul back in January, I told him about seeing the counselor last year and... (More...)
"And now," Dr. Zurückgeschichte said, "please explain to me how an infodump works." "But why would I have to explain... (More...)
A couple of weeks ago, there was a totally fabulous talk at Google: Dr. Cornelia Brunner of the Center for... (More...)
There continues to be tremendous confusion among some SH submitters over the distinction between curved (or slanted) quotation marks and... (More...)
Something I see quite often in both submissions and published fiction (including movies) is plots that hinge on people taking... (More...)
It occurred to me Sunday morning, after being awakened by a windstorm that was related to the flooding that's happening... (More...)
The Narnia movie was splendid. I went into it with very high hopes and a lot of trepidation. The hopes... (More...)
Today would have been my father's 66th birthday. It's also the 25th anniversary of my mother's death. I'm staying home... (More...)
Somehow I developed a bad habit long ago: it became important to me to not let anyone know what was... (More...)
Had my first grief-counseling appointment. I think it went pretty well. I told the doctor at the start that I... (More...)
There are two long fairly serious entries I want to write soon: one about the origins of my zeppelin story... (More...)
My uncle Dobe sent out email a few months ago pointing to some websites containing information about our family history.... (More...)
I really ought to be either editing or reading subs, but I'm gonna take a little time to point to... (More...)
In Alias, once a season or so they have an episode that consists almost entirely of recap and flashback, presumably... (More...)
At least half a dozen new people have started reading this journal in the past couple months, and regular readers... (More...)
I gather that in a certain period of European history, it was common for men holding forth about their lady-loves... (More...)
I've been meaning to write about this for ages. I've been putting it off because I wanted to provide thorough... (More...)
(I wrote most of the following a couple weeks ago, but was feeling too conflicted and stressed about politics to... (More...)
It just occurred to me that my biggest problem is a lack of perspective, an inability to determine which problems... (More...)
We've been getting a lot of submissions lately that have detailed summaries and/or discussions of the story in the cover... (More...)
A conversation with Karen M. the other night somehow came 'round to the Transcendentalists, which reminded me of one of... (More...)
Inspired by Heather's comments the other day (thanks, Heather!), I headed up to San Francisco today to watch same-sex couples... (More...)
Aha! I've been hearing about "that German study about facial attractiveness," but I hadn't gone seeking it out because I... (More...)
A friend of mine used to do something interesting when running roleplaying games: he'd use real-world historical names for famous... (More...)
Just read the Supreme Court's opinions (that's a PDF file) in the Texas sodomy case (Lawrence et al. v. Texas).... (More...)
There were a couple of things I neglected to mention on May 1. First, I didn't mention a couple of... (More...)
People in our workshop mix up Zed's and my names all the time, to the point where even I once... (More...)
A couple weeks ago, two people in one day hinted that I should try to convince them to come to... (More...)
I started writing this a few weeks ago, after intending to write it for some weeks before that, but then... (More...)
I've been meaning to write about the weekend of the 13th and 14th for a week now. On Friday I... (More...)
I think most Americans are unaware of the existing limitations on freedom of speech. I used to think that freedom... (More...)
My co-workers had another of their semiannual-or-so karaoke nights last night, and it reminded me of what happened the one... (More...)