Strange Horizons for Best Semiprozine
This entry is partly about SH and partly about the new rules for the Best Semiprozine Hugo category, and the...
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Eight years
It's now been eight years since my father was killed. I still miss him. As I noted the other day,...
Darths & Droids for Best Graphic Story
This is a recommendation to nominate the webcomic Darths & Droids for the Best Graphic Story Hugo award. I wrote...
Tempest for Fan Writer
I keep meaning to link to Tempest's post about her current awards eligibility. I'm sorry to say that I haven't...
Seven reasons to watch Nikita
I know I've been going on and on about the TV series Nikita for the past couple years, but it...
What percentage of your book-reading is nonfiction?
It occurred to me recently that I almost never read long-form nonfiction. I read online nonfiction all the time—blogs, news,...
Conversation(s) With Other Women Blu-ray: Not Canadian
I've been trying to find the very interesting movie Conversation(s) With Other Women on Blu-ray for a while. This post...
The transparent society: arriving soon?
I read only an excerpt from David Brin's 1998 nonfiction book The Transparent Society, but the gist of its argument...
Some notes on coping with grief
Several friends of mine have lost people close to them in the past few months. It occurred to me recently...
Freedom of Information requests are slow
It occurred to me a few years ago that it would be interesting to get ahold of my father's FBI...
Productive!
Things I did tonight: Updated my to-do list. (A necessary first step, given how out-of-date it was.) Did laundry. Paid...
Three female superheroes
I've encountered three new and interesting superhero comics featuring female protagonists in the past two months. I hope to post...