I got a little note from YouGov (I must stop calling them PollingPoint, they haven't used that name for a while) saying they would like to feature my essay on their website. So that's good, I reckon. What's interesting is that they asked me to review/rewrite the final sentence for clarity because they thought there must be a typo. As far as I ( Read more... )

Via kiplet I find that The Portland Zine Symposium is upcoming. Themes for the year include Back to DIY, Back to Community, and Back to Roots. Wonder how many mimeographed fanzine producers will be there?

The center, it cannot hold...

Via our Sekrit SFWA Mole and other sources. Writer Beware Blogs has the details on a fake short story contest falsely claiming to be sponsored by SFWA. SFWA has confirmed it's not them. So if you hang with aspiring SF writers who might be taken in, please pass on the news.

The SRT truck pulls away again, and the SRT guys mill around the power pole a bit. Eventually they, too, settle into postures of waiting. One of the men has some chunk of metal that he uses as a makeshift stool. Another crouches down on his haunches. A third shifts from foot to foot, while the fourth keeps watch down into the yard. It begins ( Read more... )

The helicopters are circling again. Here in Seattle, where you seldom hear helicopters at all, their massed, fluttering rumble feels oppressive. If you look at KOMO or KING 5, you'll see endless live footage of the buildings of UW from the air. It's not that informative ( Read more... )

Ah, the joys of modern life in the electrified world. First thing I did once the power finally came back on was turn on the stove and start heating water for a nice big pot of hot tea. We had been without electricity for 34 hours, when it finally flicked back on at 11:00 this morning.

( 34 Hours Without Juice, The Gory Details )