Hugo recommendation: When We Wake
I recently read Karen Healey's 2013 YA SF novel When We Wake (which is out in paperback today!), and I...
Author Archive
Italicizing “foreign” words in English text
On Facebook recently, Jackie asked a question: Jackie: Conversations in languages other than English: italicized or not? Do we have...
Books vs pajamas
Pat (Spencer Tracy) and Jamie (Katharine Hepburn) are on a sleeper train, and the following dialogue ensues: Jamie: Would you...
The Dead Phone: A comic monologue in one brief act
Me: Oh, no! My phone has run out of battery! Me: Alas! I cannot read while I walk, as I...
Chatroulette Guy does Miley Cyrus and Mariah Carey
First there was Call Me Maybe (3-min video). This guy Stephen Kardynal went on Chatroulette (the site where you can...
Neat sliding-number-puzzle games
There's a nifty iOS game called Threes, in which you slide numbered tiles around on a board and combine them...
Nine years
My father was killed nine years ago today. This year I've been pretty much okay. I noticed the impending anniversary...
Awesome lesbian-protagonists comic: Supercakes
Mary Anne posted a link earlier to an awesome and charming and funny and sweet and thoroughly lovely 12-page comics...
Sturgeon’s “Granny Won’t Knit”
In my Complete Sturgeon reading, I just read his 1954 story “Granny Won't Knit.” Spoilers and an entertaining anecdote follow....
Nebula nominees!
SFWA has announced this year's Nebula nominees, and I'm very pleased with them. Congratulations to all the nominees! (And double...
Assorted updates
I feel like I haven't posted a general life update here in ages. Partly that's because I have half a...
Diversity ads
I feel like there's been an amazing spate of pro-diversity advertising in the past week. Some links: A new Cheerios...