Awash in paper
Various things from the past couple of months have motivated me to finally get moving on dealing with the paper-drifts...
Author Archive
Princess name
While driving home last weekend, I listened to the Maynard Moose story “Sleeping Beastly.” It has some flaws, but I...
Unstrung Heroes
I first saw the 1995 movie Unstrung Heroes in late 1996, and I liked it a lot. I bought it...
Kirk and the doppelgangers
The first seven broadcast episodes of ST:TOS included one episode with a shapeshifter, two with faux Kirks, one in which...
Fun art (dragons and more)
I've been meaning for years to link to my friend Kir's online art; I have a feeling some of y'all...
Lacking in kilter
It's been an odd week. I've continued to be generally glum and mullygrubbish and irritable. But there've been good parts....
Mullygrubbing
I've been exhausted and mopey and cold (I know, I know, Californians don't get to complain about cold, but the...
Some links about Aaron Swartz
I didn't know Aaron Swartz, the brilliant Internet activist who committed suicide yesterday at age 26, but friends of mine...
Supporting Jay Lake
I'm late to post about these projects, so I'm guessing that most of y'all know about them by now, but...
Hiding an item from the ruler
Say you're a reasonably genre-savvy fictional character, and you're carrying an object—the Mysterious MacGuffin Of Mystery—that's important to your quest,...
Two eating-disorder essays
These are triggery, of course. Last month, Marianne Kirby wrote a compelling piece at xoJane about not eating, sometimes for...
Trying new stuff
It occurred to me not long ago that now that I'm no longer doing magazine stuff, I could do any...