Forgive me, regular readers, but I’m going to wax evangelical today. Two days ago I installed RescueTime on my writing computer and phone, planning on using it as a resource when I start some heavy-duty process tracking next year. I honestly didn’t expect to be back here blogging about it two days later, but…holy fucking shit, […]
One of the things I really miss about living in the same city as my friend Allan? He’s exceptionally interested in things. All sorts of things. And he accumulates people and ideas and interests as naturally as most people breath, which means he’s often the infection vector for all sorts of interesting things. Case in […]
I’m jumping on a plane to Melbourne later today, so today’s post is short and sweet.If you’ve got netflix, then do this one thing. Go Watch Master of None. I’ll admit, I started off kinda eh on the show. The first episode was good, but it didn’t have that zing that made me want to sit […]
GenreCon kicks off at twelve o’clock today. Before that happens, I think we can all agree that this is sexy as fuck:
A few months back, Kathleen Jennings leant me her copy of Swordspoint on the assumption I’d probably like it. The fact that I actually took it is a pretty good indication I thought she was probably right, since I generally don’t borrow books from people I like. No matter how many times I point out, […]
I meant to post this over the weekend, but…conference brain. Instead, you’re getting it here. *AHEM*…GO SEE THE ODD COUPLE I got interested in Neil Simon’s 1965 theatrical version of The Odd Couple after reading James Scott Bell’s Plot and Structure, where he goes back to the play several times when he’s looking for examples […]
AT SOME POINT IN THE NEXT TEN DAYS, I’M GOING TO LEAVE THE IRON ON I know this is happening ’cause we’re on the official countdown until GenreCon is a thing, and experience says I will leave the iron on at some point. I have run five previous cons in my life, and I’m currently […]
I was walking to work this morning and it occurred to me that Heyer-Punk is a genre that should totally exist. And not Steampunk flavoured books with a Georgette Heyer influence – those, I expect, already exist in some form or another. No, I’m thinking a genre that harkens back to the punk-suffix’s origins and […]
I was going to start this post with something completely different, but then the latest issue of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet arrived on my e-reader, and the opening paragraph of Alyc Helms‘ The Blood Carousel is too good to not share it: They say any child brave enough to ride the carousel can win her parents […]
If you’re a writer and you’ve never read Caitlin Kiernan’s work, you should probably rectify that at some point. She’s an extraordinary writer who basically looks at all the things we think of as rules, throws them out, and creates deliciously dark and beautiful fiction. Easily one of my three favourite writers active in the world […]
One of my favourite webcomics, Girls with Slingshots, finished up its run a few weeks ago. Some of the others that make up my regular weekly reading have announced their conclusion is coming up in the near future. This means I’ve got some gaps in my weekly reading schedule that I kinda want to fill […]
So my friend Allan makes some extraordinarily cool, highly-geeky shit in his alter-ego of The Tardis Guy. Case in point, check out this picture of one of his replica Thor hammers: @sldixonphoto doing his thing in my workshop. His thing is taking amazing photographs, by the way. #Mjolnir #photography #comicbooks #comics #hammer #thor #MARVEL A […]
