The N Game: I’m trying to figure out why the so-called N-word has become the one word you cannot say anywhere, under any circumstances. Now, crawl off that high horse. I’m not defending Michael Richards’ rant, but if you’d seen it you certainly believe that this was a man who completely and indefensively lost it in public. He appeared to be dangerous, and not in the Michael O’Donoghue / Saturday Night Live sense of the word. Any audience...
Reality – Not Politics: Famed writer Alan Moore will be appearing on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. Given his well-known and admirable commitment to faithful adaptations, Alan will be dying himself yellow and chopping off a finger from each hand....
Closing a LOT of windows: All sorts of stuff before I do a major backup and upgrade... and I wonder I why keep these windows open, just so I can get around to blogging them. WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Early Science Fiction Fanzines: A Cover Gallery: So you can see all the scary drawings...
The Joke I didn't get to tell Harlan last weekend: Guy goes to a doctor's office. Doctor says, "I have bad news for you. You have advanced pancreatic cancer and early stage Alzheimer's." Guy says, "Damn. Well, at least I don't have cancer."...
Proof that booze is good for you!: Vodka drip saves poisoned Italian - Yahoo! News: SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian doctors used an intravenous feed of vodka to keep an Italian tourist alive after he consumed large quantities of a poisonous substance. ADVERTISEMENT The 24-year-old man, in an...
Reopening in October...: ...over at ComicMix, with all new stories. Hope to see you soon. The first round is on us. Actually, from now on, all the rounds are on us-- the stories will be free....
This Saturday: This one’s for those in the Connecticut area and something I should have flogged earlier than today. I’m very excited to be a part of this after hearing how well last year’s event turned out. 2nd Annual Writers' Conference –...
Watching Quantum of Solace: Having grown up on James Bond movies, I have been conditioned to expect certain lines, images and sounds. As a result, I was curious to see what would survive when the franchise was rebooted with Casino Royale. They played with...
"Tigerheart" honored by School Library Journal: Excerpted from "School Library Journal"-- SLJ Presents the Best Adult Books for High School Students 2008 By Francisca Goldsmith, Chair, Adult Books for High School Students Committee -- School Library Journal, 12/1/2008 It was a banner literary year and so...
Sometimes you're just left shaking your head: I know this is the time of year when we're supposed to be giving thanks and dwelling on the nobility of the human soul. But as a lead-up to the holidays, a young man committed suicide on webcam while people...