It’s been a long week catching up on all the things that needed to get done to go live with the SFRevu and Gumshoe Review‘s September issues at midnight tonight. Adding to the difficulty this month is that for the last week or so I’ve been fighting off the flu or a cold (the verdict […]
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It was the blurb for Waking Life that got me interested: Product Description From Richard Linklater comes one of the most imaginative animated features ever made. This funny, ingenious film, which Rolling Stone Magazine calls “nothing short of amazing,” explores the fascinating question: “Are we sleep-walking through our waking state or wake- walking through our […]
I’m beginning to think all my life is about time. Time to work. Time to sleep. Time to play. Hours. Minutes. Seconds. Years. Decades. A lifetime. All these small bits of time make up our lives. We treat life like it is infinite, but we all know there’s an end. Every minute is precious and […]
I just realized it’s been several days since I posted. Not that I haven’t seen things that catch my attention–just haven’t had a minute to actually think about what I’ve seen and ponder the ramifications or emotional attachment to it. Lately, it seems that I have a very iffy relationship with time–there never seems to […]
Remember people telling you to just get over it when you got picked last for games, when you never got invited to the cool parties, when you were a wall-flower at dances, or when your best-friend canceled because he/she found something better to do at the last minute. Well, those rejections hurt. The problem though […]
I must admit that I find the Mindset list from Beloit College to be fascinating. Each year I look forward to their list because it does help to explain some of the cultural problems in dealing with young people. Their overview of the Class of 2013: Members of the class of 2013 won’t be surprised […]
I’ve known for a while now that Connie Willis had agreed to be a Capclave 2010 Guest of Honor but hoped that the official website would be up by now. But as you know one thing leads to another and the WSFA Small Press Award and the reviving of WSFA Press sort of took over […]
The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2009 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction (for stories published in 2008): “Drinking Problem” by K.D. Wentworth, published in Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams, Prime Books (August, 2008). “Hard Rain at the Fortean Café” by Lavie Tidhar, published […]