House rules for playing Slash
At WisCon 2014, Vylar Kaftan introduced a bunch of us to a very entertaining fast-paced casual game called Slash: it's...
Downtime
Today is a downtime day. Last night, after some work on a Mysterious Project that went quite well, I got...
Deportees
Back in January 2014, I attended folksinger John McCutcheon's annual Santa Cruz concert, a benefit (as always) for the Resource...
On trigger warnings
I gather that there's a backlash against trigger warnings going on. Rather than continue to have this argument every time...
WisCon Friday
Had an odd and kind of off-kilter day yesterday. Did some day-job work in the morning, then a playtesting round...
Letters from Peter: Haircuts
More old letters! This time they're from my father to my uncle, apparently from the early 1970s. (They're all undated,...
Randomized Dystopias
Want to write a dystopia, but you're tired of dystopias that abrogate the same old rights that dystopias always abrogate?...
Today’s plan
What I ought to do today: House cleaning, prep for upcoming travel, some overdue day-job stuff, respond to emails, run...
Tech is bad, nature is good
For a long time, we've been reading stories and books about how things mediated through technology are bad and being...
Hamilton rap becomes a musical
In 2009, composer/lyricist/performer Lin-Manuel Miranda performed an amazing hip-hop piece about Alexander Hamilton (5-min video, with mostly-accurate captions) at the...
Belated Beltane
A week ago was May 1. I meant to write something here about Kam that day, and then every day...
Who would’ve been on the Best Editor Hugo ballots?
Jim Hines posted yesterday about the Best Editor categories of the Hugo ballot. A friend asked who might've been on...