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Alive
I've just survived a triple bypass, which was a really unpleasant business. I've always exulted in being alive, but this is a whole different feeling. My body is weak and my mind is racing, and there aren't enough hours in the day because I fall asleep easily. But I will heal up and get better from this one day. -
More Dead SF Writers
Fred Pohl has died, and Jack Vance died last month. I met Fred once, but although Jack Vance was one of my and my late brother's favorite writers, I never met him. Both were elderly and had long careers and happy lives behind them, and both saw their families doing well before they left ( Read more... ) -
DEATH BY WATER
Ghost Ship by Tom Disch
I keep checking Tom's blog . . . read the poem to see why . . . and it's begun taking comments again. This time when I posted it held the comment for moderation, meaning it may not post. So I'll echo it here, wishing Tom was around to beat me up about its poor quality.
DEATH BY WATER ( Read more... ) -
The Slow and Fitful Passage of Time
Sometimes Time oozes like cold syrup, and other times it sprays like a cataract. Not one of those things in your eye, the other kind. Made of water, you know? How can it have been so long since I posted here? How come I never have time to post, and how come my hair keeps getting grayer? -
Tom Disch
Tom Disch is dead, due to complex causes, but mostly from suicide. He was in poor health, but sane and in control of his talents, which he exercised by posting poetry and essays on his blog. Tom had been unhappy since outliving his partner, Charles Naylor, and made no secret of his feelings of marginalization and impending dissolution ( Read more... ) -
A Pair of Bad Presidents
Man, I almost feel sorry for old President Bush. Not that one, I mean his old dad. How'd you like to have your kid take over your old job and screw it up this badly? The only thing GW hasn't done is vomit on a head of state, and there's still time for him to get that one in. Old Bush was a fairly decent president; he was too conservative and ( Read more... ) -
Flash! This just in!
They didn't find any cancer up Bush's butt. They also didn't find any hope for an early end to the war, or his brain. Keep looking, boys. Dig deeper. -
See Rudolph Cheddar
I hear Eric Rudolph is feebly sniping at his victims from prison. Nyuk nyuk. At least they can go to the corner and get an RC co-cola and a moon pie when they want ( Read more... ) -
Rudolph the Redfaced Redneck
I hear convicted bomber Eric Rudolph hates the SuperMax prison. He's bored, and says it's driving him crazier ( Read more... ) -
I live again
Once again I have risen from the grave to build another website. Look ma, no hands! Luckily I can move the cursor with psychokinesis. It's too quiet down here in the lab, with only the wheezing of the pumps and that constant drip, drip, drip from the left ventricle of the heart-lung machine. I'd fix it, but I can't turn it off long enough. Luckily ( Read more... )