John Darnielle, whose prose sounds a little like Steve Schultz meets Ta-Nehisi Coates, on someone's new album: I love things with personality. Sometimes people use the term as short-hand for "filled, to a fault, with …
I have some fuzzy thoughts burbling about: stories that shore up our identities, communication and vulnerability, accounting for post-scarcity in decoding flirtations (and markets, and marriages as analogs to patents), ableism, and how the unnoticed …
As Seth Stevenson noted four years ago, marketers for car insurance can sell to most of the American populace. Nearly everyone needs car insurance. The market's huge and fragmented, so marketers put ads everywhere. I …
Quote Of The Day: "If code is free, why not me? Well, maybe some kind of gated source model..."
During lunch last week with Charlie Anders, Annalee Newitz, Mary Anne Mohanraj, & Jed Hartman,* I mentioned Figleaf's erotic photography. I think Annalee asked me to send her a link, but as long as I'm …
Hmmm, how to push that embarrassingly gushy entry down the front page a bit? I know, I'll embarrass myself talking about sex! You think I'm kidding?
One narrative of my Memorial Day weekend is: I arrived at WisCon Thursday night, made a flyer (PDF, 2 pages, 7 MB) to advertise the anthology (using the hotel's free wireless and free printing), went …
WisCon 33 transformed me. Like everyone else ever, I need to write up a con report. But like every con report, it'll be extraordinarily lacking because of the tales that can't be told, for reasons …
It's like there is some concerted conspiracy to make this WisCon awesome for me. I was able to say some useful things in the "SF/F in Higher Education" panel. It's fancy-dress night and I'm wearing …
"Are you going to be all right?" "Yes, because I have to be. What other choice do I have?" "Well, that fixes everything." Actually, no, the quote of the day really should be Candra just …
