I would have read it eventually since it’s by China Miéville, but since Bryan recommended it I moved it up the stack – even though I was a little concerned it would be even more baroque than The Iron Council. Miéville, darn him and his talent, has written a police procedural, set in a city [...]
(Yes, I know I traditionally do reviews and media blogging on Sunday, but I was so darn busy cleaning and fixing up the house yesterday that Samwise actually stopped me to ask “You’re not about to go into labor, right?”) This game was brought to my attention by Betsy, Hottest IT Attorney in Los Angeles. [...]
Since it’s Pride weekend – When did you know you were queer? Or when, looking back, should you have figured it out? Some people say they always knew; others figured it out later in life, very suddenly; some of us took a little while to get it all sorted. I should have known one night [...]
My mother called me tonight – I already knew, I think, because there’s no other reason she would be calling me at well-past-bedtime Eastern. Her mother, my grandmother, my last living grandparent, died in the hospital this morning. It wasn’t terribly unexpected; she was 95, she’s been in pretty ill health for a while and [...]
The Queen, who a) believes her father to be a cruel tyrant with the sole motivation of making her life miserable, and b) hates cooking (up to and including microwaving a TV dinner), spontaneously made breakfast in bed for her dad on Father’s Day. Okay, it was toast and Grape Nuts, but there was no [...]
Pros: Cool architecture. The bench is only slightly raised, instead of being higher than God as is not uncommon in many courts. Apparently the Justices do not have something to prove. Their cafeteria food is actually pretty decent. Marble, and plenty of it. Just admitted Mythago to the Supreme Court bar. Cons: Supreme Court gift [...]
I love Portland, but it does have that pretentious thing going on, which is also why I love Cat and Girl. Share and Enjoy:
Ursula LeGuin has a funny essay cautioning against actually meeting the writer behind the breathtaking works of genuis that you love to read, because you might find out that the creative genius is kind of a weirdo who mumbles and has bizarre theories about tungsten poisoning. Well, Jonathan Tweet just managed to prove LeGuin right. [...]