I've never understood why people overseas always assumed I wasn't - couldn't be - an American Tourist™, when that's what I was and wasn't pretending to be anything else. Yes, I have kind of a funny accent, but it's a hybrid of several USA regions, comes out rather Midwest-flat with a few Southern and New England quirks, and you can't hear the " ( Read more... )

(via Diane Duane)

In this raucous Slashdot interview, there is a not-to-be missed account of an Epic Feud between Stephenson and William Gibson (Neuromancer) comprising three battles worthy of Cuchulain or Rama in their exploits and R.A. Lafferty in their incongruity ("The second time was a few years later when Gibson came through Seattle on his ( Read more... )

(we moved them all to Libya last week)

While it is morbidly amusing to watch Condimelda try to put the evil eye on people who don't have to obey her, as if she were middle management* sent out from headquarters to an underperforming branch office to set them straight, the way she tried in Canada and only left them more angered by her "shut up and ( Read more... )