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The Fog of Ward.6 Feb 2012 | 8:54 pmSpring may not be here just yet, but I know it can't be too far away. Why? Because the latest issue of the official Star Trek magazine has arrived, and it's the "Spring 2012" issue! Since I got my copy in the mail, you can expect to see it in stores within the next week or so. I can sense your breathless anticipation coursing through the interwebs to me."Spies and Secret Missions" is the theme du jour this time around. What's that? You say you want the rundown on what all fills this new issue to the bursting point with all sorts of Trekkie goodness? Well, all righty then. Here we go:First,… -
Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: "Transfigurations"
KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life7 Feb 2012 | 10:31 amCrusher falls for a patient whose name she doesn't know, La Forge for Christy Henshaw again and this time she falls back, O'Brien falls off a kayak and dislocates his shoulder, and Worf falls over a railing and dies (but gets better). The TNG Rewatch undergoes some "Transfigurations."An excerpt:Picard tries talking to Sunad, but he refuses to accept Picard’s words and attacks the Enterprise with a Super Suffocation Weapon (seriously, he pushes a button, and everyone on the Enterprise can’t breathe). John is able to heal everyone on the ship from that weapon, but Sunad just arms… -
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On Downton Abbey News and Silliness
Allyn Gibson2 Feb 2012 | 4:53 pmIn lieu of any meaningful posts today — the bronchitis still has me feeling at about 70% — let’s talk Downton Abbey! PBS is currently showing the season season of the ITV hit, and I absolutely adore the series. I can’t explain why I love it, except that the characters are awesome and it’s fun to watch. I have felt that the second season has lacked something — there’s a certain charm that seems absent, probably because of the horror of the trenches and the Western Front lurking in the background. That said, I’m still enjoying the show…
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26 Jan 2012 | 1:24 pmHe’s a Black Labrador from Florida. She’s a mottled Dutch lop from Maine. They fight crime. They are… HOT DOG & BUN! -
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The Fog of Ward.
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daytonward @ 2012-02-06T22:54:00
6 Feb 2012 | 8:54 pmSpring may not be here just yet, but I know it can't be too far away. Why? Because the latest issue of the official Star Trek magazine has arrived, and it's the "Spring 2012" issue! Since I got my copy in the mail, you can expect to see it in stores within the next week or so. I can sense your breathless anticipation coursing through the interwebs to me."Spies and Secret Missions" is the theme du jour this time around. What's that? You say you want the rundown on what all fills this new issue to the bursting point with all sorts of Trekkie goodness? Well, all righty then. Here we go:First,… -
No “Ask Dayton” this week, but….
5 Feb 2012 | 10:46 amJust because it's Super Bowl Sunday doesn't mean other people are slacking off, you know. That's right, Sunday still means a brand-spankin' new episode of the Sunday G&T Show, the weekly Trek-themed internet radio show and podcast hosted by friends Nick Minecci and Terry Lynn Shull!Due to Nick being away for reserve drill duty this weekend, he and Terry pre-recorded this week's episode for airing today. Get the latest info about various Trek-related topics, including new updates from the set of the currently in-production Star Trek film. Oh, and NerdRage is also discussed, much to my… -
Texts from Last Night, Jan 28-Feb 3.
4 Feb 2012 | 8:30 pmBuy the book, by Lauren Leto and Ben Bator.Follow @tfln on Twitter, and be sure to visit the Texts From Last Night website. That's where it all begins.The following may contain offensive language. Proceed at your own peril.January 28th/29th:(204): Call me in 2 minutes and go along with what I say. You're hysterical and I must go comfort you asap. He just asked if I was ready to experience sex with a wizard and he wasn't kidding.(330): I really liked your hair last night but that style makes it really hard to hold it while you puke.January 30th:(404): I am more sore today than I was after my… -
January writing wrap-up.
4 Feb 2012 | 8:59 amI almost didn't bother posting one of these for January, as even though I did do some writing, it still was nothing like my busier periods. However, some things have changed in recent days which look to fill at least some of the weeks and even months ahead, so I figured I could get away with this "update."Anyway, let's see what we've got. It's a pretty short list this time around:Short Story - I finished a revised draft of this tale on January 30th, all 13,000+ words of it. I'm giving serious consideration to prepping this for e-Book sale via one or more of the more popular venues, just to… -
Read Chapter 1 of That Which Divides.
3 Feb 2012 | 2:17 pmIt's been a while since I had anything new to report about That Which Divides, my forthcoming Star Trek original series novel which is set to start hitting shelves toward the latter part of this month. Apparently seeing fit to take a bit of pity on me, the good folk at Simon and Schuster have been kind enough to post the first chapter on their site for your perusal. (Click to Biggie Size)So...you know...go and peruse, yo: Star Trek: That Which Divides - ExcerptThough the scene does not feature any of the main cast of characters, Trekkies should recognize at least one familiar face. Also, the…
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KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: "Transfigurations"
7 Feb 2012 | 10:31 amCrusher falls for a patient whose name she doesn't know, La Forge for Christy Henshaw again and this time she falls back, O'Brien falls off a kayak and dislocates his shoulder, and Worf falls over a railing and dies (but gets better). The TNG Rewatch undergoes some "Transfigurations."An excerpt:Picard tries talking to Sunad, but he refuses to accept Picard’s words and attacks the Enterprise with a Super Suffocation Weapon (seriously, he pushes a button, and everyone on the Enterprise can’t breathe). John is able to heal everyone on the ship from that weapon, but Sunad just arms… -
Proposition 8 declared un-Constitutional
7 Feb 2012 | 10:23 amIn more good news, a federal appeals court has declared California's Proposition 8 -- which declared marriage in the state to be only between one man and one woman -- to be un-Constitutional, a decision that is blindingly obvious to anyone who's actually read that particular document. The next step is the Supreme Court, which will probably wind up hearing the appeal on this some time in 2013. The Constitution, not Prop. 8.I've said this before, and I'm going to say it again: if you object to homosexuality on religious grounds, then you're a hypocrite unless you also believe in slavery,… -
Karen Handel resigns from Komen; millions cheer
7 Feb 2012 | 10:04 amKaren Handel, the vice president for Susan G. Komen who was the primary mover and shaker behind Komen's cutting off of Planned Parenthood (something she actually claims responsibility for in her resignation letter, after telling NBC's Andrea Mitchell last week that she wasn't involved in the decision), has resigned in what can only be described as disgrace. Handel was a gubernatorial candidate in Georgia whose platform included railing against PP, so her trying to cut ties between Komen and PP was no surprise once she took the job.However, regardless of how you feel about this issue, when you… -
Farpoint schedule updated!
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nope, still not tired of the extended Avengers trailer yet....
7 Feb 2012 | 8:06 am"I have an army.""We have a Hulk."Geek bliss. :)
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Glenn Hauman: View From Above
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-07
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On Downton Abbey News and Silliness
2 Feb 2012 | 4:53 pmIn lieu of any meaningful posts today — the bronchitis still has me feeling at about 70% — let’s talk Downton Abbey! PBS is currently showing the season season of the ITV hit, and I absolutely adore the series. I can’t explain why I love it, except that the characters are awesome and it’s fun to watch. I have felt that the second season has lacked something — there’s a certain charm that seems absent, probably because of the horror of the trenches and the Western Front lurking in the background. That said, I’m still enjoying the show… -
On Mitt Romney’s Inhumanity
1 Feb 2012 | 5:57 pmAfter winning the Florida Primary, Mitt Romney wanted America to know — he’s “not concerned about the very poor.” Erick Erickson, the CNN pundit and proprietor of Red State wrote that Romney’s line “played straight into the liberal caricature that Republicans don’t have hearts.” That’s not how it is, though. It’s not that Republicans, especially the free market/libertarian-fueled Republicanism that’s taken root in the last twenty or thirty years, lacks heart. It’s that Republicanism lacks humanity. The reason… -
On Paul McCartney’s Album of Standards
31 Jan 2012 | 5:10 pmA week from today, Paul McCartney’s new album, Kisses on the Bottom, comes out. When it was first announced a few months ago, it was described as an album of standards, the songs that McCartney grew up with in the 1950s that inspired him and John Lennon as they were forming the Quarry Men and writing their first songs. NPR has the album streaming on their website here. I listened to it twice at the office today, and I have it playing in the background here at home now. This is not what you expect from a Paul McCartney album. What I expected was an album like Run Devil Run,… -
On Writing a Podcast Script
29 Jan 2012 | 5:40 pmToday I wrote my first podcast script. I mentioned about two months ago that I was considering starting a podcast when I relaunch my website in the coming months. (By the way, there’s nothing wrong with my website that requires a relaunch, except that I have to move it to another server, so why not spiff it up and give it a new look?) Since I’m laid up this weekend with a nasty, unproductive, and very painful cough, accompanied by a drop in my vocal register that makes me sound a bit like Jon Pertwee, I fired up Microsoft Word this afternoon and started writing up the script for… -
On the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
28 Jan 2012 | 9:27 amDayton Ward reminds us today that, twenty-six years ago today, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lift-off, killing all seven members of her crew. In my brother’s attic is, I assume, a box filled with newspapers I collected at the time, articles on the crew, articles on the disaster itself, articles on the investigation, articles on the hearings. I think that I meant to make a scrapbook of them. I was twelve. I was in the eighth grade, a student at John C. Myers Junior High School in Broadway, Virginia. (Apparently, that school is now an elementary…
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The Santorum Solution
8 Feb 2012 | 5:59 amPhoto by Patrick Gensel, via Flickr. Used under Creative Commons License Wow, I gotta tell ya, I really suck at prognosticating this GOP primary season. Just this weekend I mentioned how it was a two-man race between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, and here it is Wednesday and Rick Santorum has just won the caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado as well as the Missouri primary, with Mitt a distant second in Missouri and Colorado and third in Minnesota (with Ron Paul second!), and poor angry Newt third in CO, fourth in MN, and not even on the ballot in MO at all. If predicting GOP results were my… -
The Chronicle of a Super Bowl Weekend Success
8 Feb 2012 | 3:52 amOver at FilmCritic.com this week, I look at the success of Chronicle in the theaters over Super Bowl weekend, and what lessons, if any, we may glean from its box-office topping performance. Hint: there are lessons to be learned, otherwise my column would be very short, and I don’t get paid for very short columns. Go! Read! Now! -
Let’s End the Whatever Programming Day With a Picture of a Cat
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Proposition 8 Overturned
7 Feb 2012 | 10:38 amWell, yeah. As the federal court of appeals panel noted, “Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California.” And that’s not a nice thing to do. I’ll have more thoughts on this in a bit, when I get caught up on the details. In the meantime, here’s the actual text of the ruling for you to peruse. Update: Okay, just read the ruling. As I read it, this basically boils down to something I’ve noted before, which is that Prop 8 existed for the sole purpose of taking away from a… -
The Business Case Against Karen Handel
7 Feb 2012 | 10:33 amSusan G. Komen Senior Vice President for Public Policy Karen Handel, the presumed designated sacrificial executive for the Komen folks, on account that outsiders suspected she was behind the plan to stop funding Planned Parenthood (and certainly appears to have pushed for it enthusiastically), has indeed resigned from that foundation, although she seems not particularly inclined to fall on her sword in doing so. Instead she looks to be planning to make as much trouble for Komen folks as she can on her way out the door. And, well, look. If Ms. Handel was indeed brought in after certain…
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Cat Sparks in NYC
28 Jan 2012 | 9:15 amCat Sparks, Australian writer and editor was in NYC for a few days and so I set up a dinner party at a place called The Crooked Knife. Here's the proof. dinner at The Crooked Knife The place had crappy acoustics with a low tin ceiling so it was very loud. Afterward, a few of us (including Cat) went to a much quieter Irish pub. -
Bound Galleys of After are in!
27 Jan 2012 | 11:03 amThe book will be out in October. TOC below the jacketIntroductionThe Segment by Genevieve ValentineAfter the Cure by Carrie RyanValedictorian by N.K. JemisinVisiting Nelson by Katherine LangrishAll I Know of Freedom by Carol EmshwillerThe Other Elder by Beth RevisThe Great Game at the End of the World by Matthew KresselReunion by Susan Beth PfefferFaint Heart by Sarah Rees BrennanBlood Drive by Jeffrey FordReality Girl by Richard BowesHw th'Irth Wint Wrong by Hapless Joey @ homeskool.guv by Gregory MaguireRust With Wings by Steven GouldThe Easthound by Nalo HopkinsonGray by Jane… -
Fantasticon 2012
22 Jan 2012 | 8:46 pmI'm delighted to announce that I'm Editor GOH at Fantasticon 2012, The annual convention for science fiction, fantasy & horror in Copenhagen. It takes place June 1-3rd. My co-guest is British sf writer Alastair Reynolds. Here's more info: Fantasticon 2012I was last in Copenhagen in the early 70s and am very much looking forward to returning. I'll be missing Book Expo, which will be a shame, but what would you choose? ;-) -
Soldier's Girl/Six Feet Under
21 Jan 2012 | 9:22 amWhy had I never heard of Soldier's Girl with Lee Pace, when it came out in 2003? I only discovered it after watching the series Pushing Daisies and then looking up everything else Pace has been in. The movie (I see it actually was a tv mini-series, which might explain why I was not aware of it), based on a true story, was made in 2003 and it's about a young soldier(Troy Garity)who meets and falls in love with a transgendered performer (Lee Pace) in a nightclub--and the repercussions. All the acting was good but Lee Pace's performance is extraordinary. I see that he was nominated for several… -
Photos from the KGB reading January 18-Link/Kelly
20 Jan 2012 | 11:32 pmHere are the photos from the terrific reading last Wednesday at KGB Bar
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A New Story
7 Feb 2012 | 8:18 pmDaw Books has just published a new story of mine. It’s an oddball fantasy piece called “Renn and the Little Men.” If you like my Kristine Grayson books, you’ll probably like this one. It was a lot of fun to write. The story is in Westward Weird, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes. I think this is one of the last if not the last anthology that Marty edited, so it’s rather special that way. I haven’t yet had a chance to read this volume, but I have read two of the stories in it. Both J. Steven York’s story and Dean Wesley Smith’s… -
Free Fiction Monday: Spirit Guides
6 Feb 2012 | 11:41 amKincaid always shows up at a crime scene before the crime happens. Except at the Burger Joint. He got stuck in Los Angeles traffic and arrived just after the shooting ended. Now he must deal with carnage, carnage he couldn’t prevent—carnage he’s never been able to prevent. The carnage takes him to the end of his singular talent, and as he tries to flee, he comes face-to-face with his future, and his ever-so-difficult past. “Spirit Guides” by USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for 99 cents on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and in other ebookstores. … -
Website Down
5 Feb 2012 | 11:16 pmAs many of you noticed, this website has been down all weekend. The ISP had a major server meltdown and unfortunately, I was one of the unlucky websites on that server. If you sent me e-mail over the weekend, please resend. And believe me when I say that I’m going to figure out a way to prevent this site from going dark again. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me or commented on Facebook or messaged me about this. I appreciate it. And since everything is tentative at the moment, if you’re not finding a regular weekly feature like Free Fiction Monday or my blog, well, realize… -
The Business Rusch: The Book Trade
1 Feb 2012 | 11:34 pmThe Business Rusch: The Book Trade Kristine Kathryn Rusch It’s amazing how hindsight makes things clearer. Actually, the changes in publishing have brought a lot of things into focus for me. Then I think about those things, and remember conversations or moments when I felt simply astounded at something, but let it pass, not realizing its significance. Let me explain. On January 13, the chief executive at Faber, Stephen Page, had an essay in The Guardian. I noted in a blog a few weeks ago that Page’s clearheadedness startled me, particularly when so many in traditional publishing… -
A New Pen Name–And A New Book
31 Jan 2012 | 8:47 pmWell, since everyone’s talking about this already, I may as well come clean. I have a new pen name, Kris DeLake, and the first book is out in March. This is romance and space opera combined. I like to say that the spaceships go “whoosh!” as they travel through space, which is why I didn’t want this under the Rusch name. And the stories are too violent (and too sexy) for the Grayson name. So here’s the cover. You can preorder from Amazon or Barnes & Noble–or get it in B&N’s brick-and-mortar stores when the book comes out. I just found out that…
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Where Personal and Professional Life Collide...
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Thinks to Do, Belated Monday Edition
7 Feb 2012 | 4:11 amI've decided to pass on the Giants victory celebration parade today in order to try to keep on top of deadlines (I did say try).So. Deadlines and Needtos for this week:- finish tax prep (stop procrastinating, Gilman!)- DRAGON JUSTICE once-over- send out first few chapters of Portals #1 to betareaders- polish Jerzy's story and send to betareader #2- finish writing chapter 9 of Portals #1- dentist (ugh)- chase down missing freelancer payment (now AWOL 2 months + counting)- finish up pending freelance- write up proposal for G&T#2 (ok, cheating on this one. I have all but a plot twist done)- talk… -
Life, Sports, and Back to Life.
6 Feb 2012 | 5:14 amAnd so the Giants win the Superbowl , in yet another omg why do you try to kill us game. Well-played, fair-won, down to the last second, and can the Pats fans stop bitching now, please? Your guys didn't play as well. They lost. At least your coach had the manners to stick around for the end of the game, this time.[yeah, I'm not forgiving Belichick for that any time soon.]Good party from our Most Excellent Hosts, who made up for the fact that they recorded the last minutes of the game (thereby catching me at my foul-mouthed, hyper-tense best) with a bottle of… -
What I Did Today
4 Feb 2012 | 3:55 pmI woke up at 2am, after 2 hours of sleep, thinking, MUST WRITE! STORY WAITING! ....0h brain. F**k you. Lemme sleep.I had been dreaming about, among other things, spam emails and ex-husbands. WTF? I also woke up convinced that my passport was about to expire, which would have been problematic. Brain, seriously. You usually handle stress much better than this...Despite the lack of sleep (I finally got about 4 hours, total) or perhaps because of it, I wrote another 3,500 words on Portals #1. I also corrected more of the OMGWTF plot logic fail that was in Draft 0. Sheeesh. This is what happens… -
MUST READ: Founder of Komen's Own Words
3 Feb 2012 | 6:21 amETA 11:15am Friday: Rumor has it that the Komen Foundation has backed down, and agreed to restore funding to Planned Parenthood. I have yet to get a confirm on that from a certified news source, tho.ETA2 1PM There is some serious confusion as to if the funding will actually be restored, or if the Komen Foundation is doing some pretty tap-dancing to 'restate their position.' Either way, I trust them about as far as I can throw their main HQ.Since Nea puts it so well, I give you her post, in full:Originally posted by neadods at MUST READ: Founder of Komen's Own WordsI was going to just… -
Thus, Thursday
2 Feb 2012 | 10:40 amWorking working working. Like a good little meerkat, I am. And so I stop to have lunch, which for the record was a chunk of my home-made meatloaf and a cookie, a plain marbled cookie, nothing fancy, from the local bakery. Ok, the cookie was as large as the chunk of meatlaof, but it was much flatter, and I did not even eat the all of it....But something has most direly upset my system, and I feel all oogy. I dislike oogy most of all the things I dislike, body-wise (pain can be medicated, ick can be medicated, all you can do with oogy is wait it out).And so I am not working, but huddled on the…
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I can't hear you because...
7 Feb 2012 | 9:36 pm...Emily had her abscessed ear drained today. Her ear has been bandaged into a form roughly the size and shape of a little red-and-white banana. I am informed by a reliable third party that she was a Very Brave Doggie and deserving of many treats. She came home, had breakfast, went to the park, and (despite the Cone of Shame she must wear) appears very much herself.Silly dog may have created the abscess through an excess of head shaking. Silly dog. -
Poor Ear
5 Feb 2012 | 10:39 amEmily has been yipping if her right ear is touched, for a few days now. Investigation last night found a pocket of fluid near the tip of the ear, exquisitely sensitive. Potching about on the Internet suggested that it is a hematoma; and that, if it were to burst, it could be bad. So Unfed Dog and Spouse are on their way to the emergency vet's. Unfed dog was not certain whether to be excited ("Yay! Ride in the car! Best day ever!") or disgruntled ("Yay! No breakfast! Wait. What?"). Despite the ear issue she is in every other respect her cheery, high-energy doggish self. I await reports. -
Wow
4 Feb 2012 | 12:22 amYou throw a story out into the universe and it gets published and you're pleased with it, and then you kind of go on to the next thing. Sometimes you hear back that someone liked it. And then, very rarely (for me, anyway) you get something like this, a comment by Adam-Troy Castro on Facebook:Our recent discussion of FRANKENSTEIN led me to blind-reference a story that blew me away, many years ago, though I didn't know the story's name or author. It involved a version of the Frankenstein story where, after initially recoiling from his creation in horror, a wholly different researcher takes… -
Con or Bust
3 Feb 2012 | 7:14 pmA little late to the party, but: I'm offering a tuckerization (your name here!) in the new Sarah Tolerance book, to the highest bidder, to the greater glory of the Con or Bust fundraiser.If you want your name in Torchlights, apply within. -
Small World
1 Feb 2012 | 11:42 pmI'm reading Drama: An Actor's Education, a very graceful and humorous memoir by John Lithgow. He mentions in passing one of his favorite babysitters when he was a kid, a nice young African American woman named Coretta who, several years later, married a nice Baptist minister named King.It's amazing how lives make their own Venn diagrams.
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Skungy Art. “Surfing the Gnarl.” Read Feb 7, Feb 11.
2 Feb 2012 | 2:13 pmI have a couple of upcoming readings on Feb 7 and Feb 11, but first I want to tell you about my new painting , Loulou and Skungy. “Loulou and Skungy,” oil on canvas, February, 2012, 30” x 30”. Click for a larger version of the image. Loulou is the somewhat mysterious woman in green, Skungy is the rat, and the guy holding the rat is named Morton Plant. At present this is like an illustration of an unknown proverb or a forgotten fable. I don’t entirely know what’s going on. But I do have some ideas, as this is meant to be a previsualization of a scene in my next novel, The Big Aha. -
Whose News?
31 Jan 2012 | 9:53 amYou may have noticed that in my blog posts, I tend not to talk directly about the political stories that you see in the news. My preference is to post about the things that you don’t see in the news. Found art, surreal events, philosophical ruminations, science-fictional concepts, notes on the craft of writing, day-to-day beauty found within the real life unfolding around me. Whenever I see a news story, my first thought is: Why do “they” want me to think about this? Who are “they”? An age-old question. The one-percenters, the media barons, the commercial interests, sure. I’ve… -
Future Ads. Fun with Wacky Matter.
26 Jan 2012 | 2:25 pmI’m still flapping, still trying to get fully airborne on my intended next novel, The Big Aha. But today instead of flapping, I’m playing with my blog. As so often happens here, the pictures have very little to do with the words. View of my home office from my desk chair, January, 2012, pan made with AutoStich app on an iPhone. Click for a larger version of the image. I’ve been wondering what advertising will be like in eighty or a hundred years. Nobody reads anymore or even watches a movie. It’s all web nuggets. They don’t “cruise” so much as “harvest” the web. The ads are… -
Berlin #2
19 Jan 2012 | 9:17 amMore pictures of Berlin today, taken in late November, 2011. This follows on my earlier post, “Berlin #1”. Despite the WW II bombing, there’s still a lot of nice old buildings around. And of course the industrious Germans have rebuilt many of those buildings as well. I like this type of nineteenth century look. Serious attics and garrets up there. I wandered into an art gallery featuring a show by an Italian woman whose current motif was round watermelons. They even had a melon/globe on the desk. The big Wheel at the Christmas market near our hotel. Der grossen Rad. The Berliner Dom in… -
Reading NESTED SCROLLS at Borderlands.
13 Jan 2012 | 10:39 am[Note added after the reading.] So I gave my reading from Nested Scrolls at Borderlands. We had a small, friendly crowd, including several characters from the book. I made a podcast of the reading. You can click on the icon below to access the podcast via my Feedburner podcast station. (Note that Feedburner only shows my most recent podcasts. For older audio files, see my archive on Gigadial, which runs back to 2005.) [Advance announcement.] As I’ve mentioned before, the US edition of my autobiography, Nested Scrolls, is out from Tor Books. This Saturday, January 14, at 3:00 pm, I’ll be…
