What part of "rained out" have I never heard of ( Read more... )

Real rain coming down, wetting the pavement. Serious enough rain for me to go out to the back porch and pick up Dufus Claudius bodily and bring him in. Oh, how badly we have needed that ( Read more... )

Happy Space Day. Remember that? The anniversary of the day a human being first walked on the moon? A day that was supposed to be as important as Columbus Day ( Read more... )

My take, from Antique Specialty Mall, just prowling - of things I saw my mother use and that she taught me to use ( Read more... )

Someone on one of my many lists and forums, in a discussion of the same, pointed out that nobody living knew what it was like to live through a collapse of civilization. I pointed out that in a literate society, there was no such thing as "nobody knew first-hand what it was like" as long as there were writings on the subject ( Read more... )

I just read the reviews and summaries in sfrevue online. Vampires. Zombies. Angels. Demons. The Fae. More zombies. More vampires. A vampire cop. A zombie teenager. Ay=yi-YI ( Read more... )

From the University of New Mexico News Minute: "THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT is now home to the highest priority wildfire in the nation. This week, New Mexico in Focus has a candid conversation with U.S. Sen. Tom Udall about the fire-fighting efforts, the risk of a nuclear disaster and future of the nuclear mission at the Los Alamos National Labs. KNME’ ( Read more... )

On the radio today I was listening to someone sing "Rambling Boy", a bright, cheerful tune with all sorts of "footloose and fancy free" connotations. Until I came to the verse where the singer and the rambling boy, partners until then, came to a town where they looked for work and there was only one opening. Rambling boy conceded the job to his ( Read more... )

As told to me by Chilefudge -- true story --

She called PNM to find out when the power outage in her neighborhood would be over. She got a robovoice which remarked that her phone number was from an area currently experiencing a power outage, and "for further information, please log onto our website at ....."

www.howinhellamigonnadodat.com?

This old novel is as fresh as it always was. It's high-concept hard science fiction, hard enough to scratch diamonds unless you dismiss the biosciences as magic. The idea of healing with bioengineered snakes that produce designer drugs on order - in a culture that may not be able to produce hypodermic needles in mass quantities for lack of ( Read more... )