Saturday, November 05, 2011

Hiatus

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Right now -- through the miracle of scheduled posting -- I am in the air with my family, on our way to a location I keep telling the boys I...
Friday, November 04, 2011

Realms of Fantasy is Dead Again

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My only current paying freelance gig has been shot out from under me yet again; Realms of Fantasy magazine is being shut down for the third...

Quote of the Week

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"Some research has suggested that it is men, more than women, who yearn for marriage, but this may be merely a case of stated preferenc...
Thursday, November 03, 2011

What We Lose, What We Save

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My first real job, back in high school, was as a cashier for the discount department store Bradlees. It was a chain, but not a huge one; Bra...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

2011 World Fantasy Awards

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They were announced this past weekend at the World Fantasy Convention (where else?), held this year in beautiful, sunny San Diego. Since ...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Read in October

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Life got more-or-less back to normal in October -- we got a furnace in the middle of the month, and that was the last piece needed to get ou...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 10/29

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It's a Monday once again, and here, as usual, are the books that showed up in my mailbox last week. I'll remind you that I haven...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

So What's the Problem?

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From a New York Times article , this morning, about Republican-aligned "Super PACs" raising vast sums of money in preparation for...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Comics Round-Up: No Connection Whatsoever

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And here are four more graphic novels (or similar beasts) that I neglected to write about soon after I read them, when they were fresh in my...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Today's Favorite Song

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Anything I do more than once becomes a tradition, and so, here's the song I'm currently listening to too much (and too loudly) in my...

Less Exciting Book Titles

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Yesterday, the hashtag #lessexcitingbooktitles flashed like wildfire through the status boxes of Twitter -- or, at least, a couple of bookis...

Quote of the Week: Eliot on Editors

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"Yes, I suppose some editors are failed writers -- but so are most writers." - T.S. Eliot
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Minority Tastes

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I won't say that I'm not an elitist -- why wouldn't anyone want to consider themselves elite? -- but I still deeply believe tha...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Comics Round-Up: More Random Books

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I have not read as many books as I wanted to this year, nor have I written about as many of the ones I did manage to read. (I didn't ma...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Parallel Lines That Diverge Wildly

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Anyone who thinks there's no difference between a billionaire who spends his money to promote social causes and politics he likes, on th...
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