the_flea_king has figured out why some of my posts are not appearing in flist views. I think I can avoid the problem going forward, but here's a few recent things you may have missed.

Mysterious lights were seen in the sky, flashing

Watching the skies

Everything I need to know about Sunspin I learned from Tourbillon

I’ll post a report about yesterday’s signing later, I’m running very behind this morning. In brief, good travel, good socializing, good book-ness. Working today, then in town for dinner with some Seattle peeps. Can someone send me the directions to tonight’s Clarion West party?

Also, I haven’t forgotten the Steampunk Abecedary. I just need a ( Read more... )

ETA: If you found this page directly and are wondering what this is about, see the explanatory post here.

Poll Book buying habits

Schools Struggle With Dark Writings - Wow, this article is disturbing on a number of levels. If my mental health was being judged based on my fiction, they’d never let me out. It happened to me once, that I wrote a story which scared an instructor so much I was blackballed from a program. You might know that little piece as “The Goat Cutter.” ( ( Read more... )

Stealing a page from arcaedia, I have a question primarily directed at long-time readers of this blog. (Or anyone who understands my tagging system, I suppose.)

It’s almost the fourth anniversary of this blog in its current form (ignoring my recent switch to WordPress with an LJ echo). First post is here, from July 14th, 2004. I’ve made 5,810 ( Read more... )

This is getting pretty cool. Drop over to read, contribute something of your own, or add to an existing snippet.

I propose a small joint fiction project here: a walker's guide to the city of Axqa. Axqa exists nowhere except in this blog, and is here only for our enjoyment. I shall make the first entry in comments. You are invited to add your own entries, emendations and commentary. Corrections and additions to one another's entries are encouraged, within ( Read more... )

I apologize for the magical bouncing LJ theme (in the graphical sense), but my old one is busted. The one I've tried for the last few days is rather annoying. We'll see if this one works.

Are people having the comment threading problem on their LJs? This is enough to drive me to WordPress or some such, with an LJ feed.

ETA: It was a problem with my style. I've selected a new style, as advised, and lost a great deal of customization, but comments work correctly. How the old style, which was stable for several years, suddenly ( Read more... )

The LJ comment feature has lost all its mad threading skillz, which makes it very difficult for me to answer the open questions. Whenever our bloggy masters get this fixed I'll resume answering.