IT’S VERY LOUD IN HERE
I've been having an increasingly hard time with noise levels at sf conventions and restaurants and such lately. (Before I...
On first looking into The Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time, as most of y'all probably know, has been nominated for a Hugo award, in the Best...
“Wakulla Springs”: sf or not?
A couple of friends have indicated that they're a little hesitant to vote for “Wakulla Springs” for a Hugo, on...
Susanfic
I hadn't realized there's a whole genre of Susan Pevensie fanfic. Here's one I just came across: “Between,” by genarti,...
WisCon: general
My WisCon was pretty good overall, but also stressful and tiring. The very difficult situation at work that I mentioned...
Some links about Narnia
I just read a lovely, excellent piece by Molly McArdle on the joys, and failures, of Narnia. “I write as...
Stop it with the all-white panels on diversity
At WorldCon in Glasgow in 2005, there were two panels about cultural appropriation in writing. In my memory (which may...
WisCon: be brave
Here are links to this year's WisCon guest-of-honor speeches, plus a couple of other items that seem to me to...
Equilibrium gained and lost
Home from WisCon. Tired. It's 11:20 p.m. in Mountain View, but I'm more or less on Central time, so it...
The “I want” song and the operational theme
I recently encountered, in two very different contexts, the idea that near the beginning of most or all Disney animated...
Hugo voting: to express a preference, put it on the ballot
There's a Livejournal post that's making the rounds, about how to use No Award in your Hugo voting. It gives...
Kids, part 1: first contact
(First in a planned series of posts about my interactions with friends' kids.) I didn't have much to do with...