Yes, you should read John Scalzi’s naked power-grab with fear and trepidation, but if nothing else, for the ultimate comment on writing workshops: Certain events of the past few days have convinced me that most of writerdom has trouble finding its own ass without a claque of workshop buddies to comment on the journey (“I [...]
My mom is moving out of the ICU today, and is walking with assistance and communicating. She’s expected to make a full recovery, but a very slow one. My kids brought me breakfast in bed this morning, consisting of a cake the Littlest Paladin made all by herself, fruit and coffee. Kid Peligro felt bad [...]
I can’t really explain Your Cousin Vito’s how-do any better than telling you to go look. Somebody needs to print this and staple it to Joe Quesada’s forehead.
Chris Clarke very succinctly gets to the not-so-hidden sexism behind the nostalgia for “quality of life”. Though it goes beyond neo-environmentalism and caretaking; scratch an argument about the good old days when life was less impersonal and hurried, and you’ll find someone bitching that women aren’t doing more of the heavy lifting. “Families don’t sit [...]
On the laments of women who insist they really, truly would like more female friends, but are baffled as to how to make any. As always when I play Answer Bitch, I will be happy to give you the complete truth that you didn’t want to hear, and are now mad at me for sharing [...]
Since I spent a lot of time sitting in a hospital room this week, I did get some reading done. Samwise warned me that Accelerando was awfully hip, and it is. It’s like reading Neal Stephenson, but smarter and more entertaining, and without the bits where the author just can’t restrain himself anymore and barges [...]
I was going to post about my amazing, nearly free, last-minute vacation with Samwise to Las Vegas, but it was somewhat interrupted by the fact that my mother had a stroke this weekend. There’s not much to tell except she’s still in the ICU but is improving, and I’ll be in Michigan until things are [...]