After a week where I was seriously considering checking out of the writing business and just admitting that the entire effort was futile, some good news this morning ( Read more... )

Everyone else is doing a year end television summary, so why not me? Couple of caveats, though: this is heavily weighted to recent fall shows because, well, they are recent, two, I've undoubtedly left stuff out, especially pre-September stuff, and three, this list does not include anything from Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead, or ( Read more... )

As I've previously mentioned, the ICFA conference is, in theory, a conference where academics and writers involved in the arts of the fantastic mingle and engage in scholarly conversation, readings, and paper presentations. I say "in theory" because my part of this is to hang out at the bar or the pool and discuss, in rather less academic fashion, ( Read more... )

1. Starting with the tiniest of updates: a little and completely untitled twitter story of mine popped up at Nanoism. You will note that it focuses on two of my obsessions: Oz and Twitter.

2. On a considerably larger note, I note that Beast Within 3: Oceans Unleashed has popped up at Amazon and Barnes and Noble a few days before the official ( Read more... )

From Twitter yesterday, the #Seussspeare tag, mingling together the Immortal Bard and the singer of the Cat and the Hat. Some notable entries included ( Read more... )

So my brother and I came home from the Game of Thrones watching, and I figured I'd check email, Twitter, head to bed ( Read more... )

So, for those of you not on Twitter that missed this, Twitter was hacked this morning and has been going nuts ever since. As a result, I accidentally spammed those of you who also followed me on Twitter with lots and lots of porn and further irritating messages, mostly because, well, when you do this to me before 10 am, my chances of recognizing ( Read more... )

But first, just to clarify: I choose not to wear peach not for social reasons or to make any sort of fashion statement (my general fashion statement, these days, is "jeans"), but because when I wear the color peach everyone asks me if I'm ill. Blue tie dye is considerably more forgiving to my skin tones. This generally trivial information may ( Read more... )

Hitler finds out about another Downfall parody - watch more funny videos

Keep watching even after the Stephen Fry twitter bit.

The Internet went down, possibly from massive numbers of users jamming the system. Facebook became unreliable; CNN failed. (Although they apparently scrambled to improve matters today.) But Twitter kept going.

A list of English language twitterers in Iran is here - the list includes some American and British reporters continuing to cover events ( Read more... )