Legal submissions in crayon
Y'all writers and editors are presumably familiar with the notion of people submitting manuscripts to publishers in crayon. Here's something...
Author Archive
Good morning
I woke up fretting about something or other, and lay in bed groggily for a while, but then it occurred...
Typos and headlines
It seems to me that the web has been rife with misspellings and typos lately, even more so than usual,...
Items: semipartisan politics
Some more assorted political items, including some partisan ones and a couple from before the election: How Univac changed election...
Items: nonpartisan politics
These items are political but largely (but not entirely) nonpartisan. High card settles election in a rural Nevada county. A...
Contraction action, where’s your traction?
Here's what someone's morning might be like in a world in which the person who coined the term blog was...
Items: fluff
These items have no deeper significance, and no political content at all. (And in case that sounds sarcastic, I'm serious—nothing...
Things to do
I haven't had a chance to make the rounds of journals and blogs and LJ in more than the most...
Temporary closure in December
As usual, the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the month of December this year. If...
Nonpolitical (personal, minor) good news
Some things that've made me happy lately: At World Fantasy Con this past weekend, half a dozen people I didn't...
Politics
Vardibidian has been posting a lot of good stuff lately. For example, I found Walt Whitman's "Election Day, November, 1884"...
Home sick
Yesterday I woke up feeling generally muzzyheaded and out of it, but that sometimes happens in the morning, so I...