In the office where I work, it's wall-to-wall shelves, and adjacent to my desk lives Charles N. Brown's collection of nonfiction SF & fantasy-related reading. From time to time I practice bibliomancy with the titles of the books on the shelves. . . it only works if I don't intend it to happen. The title that leapt out at me today was "Erotic ( Read more... )

Yeah, just because.

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Orff, orff, orff!

For those of us mourning the passing of Glee (to return April 2010), I have some alternate entertainment. Now's the time to increase your appreciation for college a capella singing. At Yale, singing groups are BIG. My absolute favorite Yale singing group was Shades; unfortunately none of the videos available online come close to capturing the ( Read more... )

So, appropos of nothing. . . I am not opposed to pornography. I'm certainly opposed to the abuses that go on in the industry, but there is no way you'll catch me saying I'm opposed to seeing sexual images on film. How could I say something like that, in a society that barely blinks at graphic decapitation, decomposition, and defenestration? ( Read more... )

All right. . . those of you that know me know that I've been working at Locus for the past several years, as 1/2 personal assistant to Charles N. Brown, 1/2 Assistant Editor for Locus. That was actually how I was hired -- to work part-time for Charles, part-time for Locus. This distinction rapidly became meaningless in the day to day rush that ( Read more... )

Terry Pratchett Knighted.

Arise, Sir Terry!

There is justice in the world. Here's to 2009.

Sorry I'm not posting much recently -- too much going on! I have a work-related question. As y'all know, I work for a science fiction organization, which means there's (inherently) not a whole lot of money to spread around. We're looking for cheap advice on how to fix a web problem. . . Here's the scenario. We've uploaded our magazine onto a ( Read more... )

In other steampunky news, I'm on the wait list for the Steamcon vendor list (according to Ariane, I'm high up on the list and she's hunting for extra space.) If it does go through, I will need a clothes rack to hang lovelies up for sale. Anyone know where the portable white rack we used for the Baycon costume swap resides ( Read more... )

Upcoming SF events I am tempted to attend, ganked from the Borderlands newsletter and SF in SF list ( Read more... )

This one's for Foo, via Wired"The entourage of the Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has an unusual secret weapon. Her security team defends the head of the government with umbrellas. Not ordinary umbrellas, but unbreakable fighting umbrellas. Watch the video to see the combat-brolly in action, and marvel as Thomas Kurz ("the world's ( Read more... )