Slash moment
As y'all know, I am rather smitten with Jamie Bamber, who plays Lee Adama on Battlestar Galactica. Well, Naomi was...
Video roundup
Some fun videos that various people have pointed me at in the past week or two. If you only have...
General notes, plus more Crusie
Sometimes I am a little grumpy and a little glum, due mostly to having been sick on and off for...
Gay Bond!
I haven't yet seen the new Casino Royale; I plan to see it, but I've been mildly dubious about it....
End of the fiction year
The Strange Horizons fiction department is now temporarily closed to subs through the end of 2006. We reopen on January...
SH temporary closure reminder
Just a reminder that the Strange Horizons fiction department will be closed to subs for the month of December, so...
Latin verb placement
Peter Dickinson is probably best known in sf circles for the fictional-science book The Flight of Dragons and the kids'...
Dirge Without Music
Another thing I just found in old email. Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay; from The Buck in...
Poly Pogo
Just came across this tidbit in old email. In the Pogo comic strip dated 13 December 1951, Churchy and Albert...
Howl’s Moving Castle inventiveness
One quick note about the commentary on Howl's Moving Castle: A bunch of people in the supplemental materials on the...
Paperbacks mostly done
I unpacked all but four of the twenty-or-so boxes of my father's books. Two of the remaining ones contains papers,...
French organization?
Late this morning, there was a knock on my door. I answered it, in my bathrobe, to find two nattily...