Why readers' and writers' tastes are at odds so often.
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I don't normally read io9 (mostly a time constraint), but a friend linked me to a piece where the title tells it: Why We Can’t Have Great Movies. Two words: risk aversion.
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The penultimate Black Jack collection still sports some of the same hit-or-miss flavor of all the volumes since #11 or so, but the standouts this time around are as good as anything ever created for the series. Most striking is...
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Always nice to see a series continue to fulfill and surpass the promises laid down in its first volume. Here, in the second installment of this minutely-detailed look at life amongst the 19th-century nomads of the Silk Road (distant ancestors...
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Am I doing NaNoWriMo this year? Sadly, no. Well, sort of. [There's more! See the original entry here]

1. I am surrounded by psychotics. Often I suspect I am one. Then certain records come out and I know I am not alone. -Lester Bangs I’ll start with the soundbite. No Longer Human may be the single finest manga...
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Lots going on right now, most of it very time-consuming. Short rundown:

• I have a new long-form writing project in the works. I won't be talking about it in public for a good long time, because it's still quite protean. I'm trying to keep from prematurely talking about works-in-progress, because part of me hates making promises and then not knowing ( Read more... )

Today I got smacked in the face with yet another example of why a web browser is a terrible place for "rich applications" (what a term).
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The worst sort of crime, it could be argued, is that which is committed thoughtlessly. It’s intent that makes a true criminal, which is why we have both manslaughter and murder. Such is the theory anyway, but I imagine those...
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