This homeless waif accosted us while we were unloading groceries a couple of weeks ago, rubbing our legs and mewing incessantly. Since there’re coyotes in the neighborhood (I had seen two crossing the street earlier that evening) we took the Read more…
When you put 2 leaves in our dining-room table it doesn’t fit in a 10×11 dining room. The standard 8 pc. place setting that most of us get for a weeding gift will be inadequate once you start hosting the Read more…
Wo hoo! I won Scalzi’s LOLCreation contest with the following entry: If you’ve read my earlier post on Science Religion you probably know why, though I’m respectful of people’s belief systems, I find the concept behind the Creation Museum eminently Read more…
A blog post elsewhere led me to an online political philosophy quiz where I scored thusly: Progressive/Conservative score: 8 – Moderate Progressive (“You think the progressive movement is usually well intentioned, but is sometimes too extreme in its ways”) Capitalist Read more…
Is now on Scribd, after being on my website for ages, I made a PDF of it and released it to the world. Plot will follow at some point.
There’s an interesting post on the Feminist SF Blog about aliens in Larry Niven’s Known Space series. Essentially it points out how both the Kzinti and the Puppeteers both have what amount to non-sapient females, and how this amounts to Read more…
Everyone’s doing it. . .SF Signal, Big Dumb Object, Whatever. . .. . . so I have to post it too. Eddie Izzard, Lego, Darth Vader. Just to be different, here’s a bonus Eddie Izzard Lego video about movies. (Bet Read more…
I recently responded on a thread on Whateveresque about the term “Mary Sue,” its use and misuse and its drift from fanfic circles into more mainstream criticism. To review (for those who didn’t just click and read the Wikipedia link Read more…
First off: I’ve added “The Heavens Fall” to my Pixel-Stained Technopeasantry. It originally appeared in the DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction Anthology, and was subsequently reprinted in Apex Online. It is a little sf/horror/crime drama. Also, it may be my Read more…