John Scalzi, as though he had not already endeared himself to my wife for buying my story and, otherwise being a generally hoopy frood, has further cemented his immutable coolness by posting a bit of a paean to the band Journey under the guise of linking to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Journey. The techno remix of "Don't Stop Believin'" at the ( Read more... )

Alright, so I ended up buying Employment by the Kaiser Chiefs and half of We Are Not Alone by Breaking Benjamin. Everything else is going into the queue because, heck, y'all have some good taste. Except you, rudius_maximus. Bad, bad Rich. I'll never like any of the music you like, except for those CDs I stole from you in 96 ( Read more... )

For all of you have ordered a copy, Issue #4 of Subterranean Magazine has gone to press, which means you should be seeing yours ... *shakes Magic 8 Ball* ... soon? Shouldn't be long, anyway ( Read more... )

I was going to post something about the blog link becoming the new footnote and how, like footnotes, those that go unexamined can help prop up faulty assumptions. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost track of one of my examples. My other is a post by James D. MacDonald over at makinglight. In it, MacDonald asserts that 8000 servicepeoples from the Army, AF, ( Read more... )

Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" occupies a place of odd duality in mind. On the one hand, my first memory of the song was in an episode of The Muppet Show, where the anti-war theme was reinterpreted to come from a fuzzy woodland creature, warning other woodland creatures to beware of the hunters marauding through the woods. The other ( Read more... )

This weekend, we hosted my dear brother shaws_ghoti, which was convenient since the wife was at work most of the weekend, so I got some help caring after the little man ( Read more... )