"Please tell me we can tell the difference between wool and sidearms."


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( YAH SORRY I'm going to talk about Caprica )

1.) Entertaining Spam of the Day:

Hi dear!

Be careful and take a moment to my message!
Iam is Gohar! The purpose of my letter - it started a dialogue with you!
I want to find a man who made me a happy girl!
Please send me an email to my email: xxx@xxxxxx.com

I'll look forward to your response. Your girl Gohar!

2). Went to the UCSC Astronomy ( Read more... )

Went to the de Young today without having purchased a ticket in advance and got into the Post-Impressionist exhibit without incident, after I saw the permanent collection. I forgot they had three Diebenkorns, and I didn't remember at all encountering Nicholas Oliveira's "Walking Mime," which is just marvelous! (Can't find an image online that isn't ( Read more... )

I find I am accidentally celebrating steampunk month, having, uh, fortuitously picked up the weird and lovely Thunderer by Felix Gilman. Haven't really been into the genre since the early 90s and "Walt and Emily," it never really grabbed me (though I love Rudy Rucker's The Hollow Earth). But if this is steampunk now, sign me up!

One reviewer over ( Read more... )

( YAH SORRY I'm going to talk about Spirited )

The world seems crazier and crazier every day I live in it. Saturday I volunteered for a mail-in-the-ballot-vote phone drive for the NO ON 23 folks, used their new-fangled internet/landline robo-articulator whatchacallit. People were almost entirely pleasant, and the one who wasn't was at least polite. It was moderately heartening. But then I get ( Read more... )

To The Best of Our Knowledge on DFW (12 Sep 2010).

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Via boingboing

More on ant colonies!

WANT: Felix Gilman's The Half-Made World, encountered via a review at Crooked Timber. Interested to see how it might stack up against Schroeder.

There's a post about my penultimate visit to UCSF brewing for later.

As everyone on the internet is reminding me, it's HP Lovecraft's 120th birthday! Callooh Callay!


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( pride and extreme prejudice )