Thoughts on a sad trend in fandom
Besides genre, another trait shared by Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke is that all three broke into writing through independent presses. Not [read more...]
Musings
Apollocon 2011 this weekend, June 24-26
I’ve been so busy in recent weeks that I nearly forgot to shout out about Apollocon 2011, happening this Friday through Sunday, June 24-26, at the [read more...]
Behind the curtain
Kindness is the model I intend to follow, but I get so bound up in being clever that I forget to be kind. Love is the ideal to which I try to conform, but I [read more...]
Forty years
I had great momentum going for late sleep this morning. This is not the easiest thing to do these days, living in an apartment complex and having grown [read more...]
Comicpalooza! May 27-29! Houston!
Comicpalooza! This banner event is finally upon us. Are you ready? Am I ready? The agreement for our artist alley table finally arrived last week, and the [read more...]
A miscellany
Here I’ve been remiss again. Almost two weeks after BayouCon III, and I’m just now getting around to a recap. The good news is that I have reasons [read more...]
BayouCon 2011, April 29-May 1, Lake Charles, LA
I’ve neglected to post a reminder about the coming Louisiana weekend. Traveling east along mythic Interstate 10, Amanda Kimmerly and I journey from [read more...]
Our lives, which art unfolding….
“…give us this day an ironical voice, and deliver us from earnest, intelligent literal-mindedness as we would deliver the literal-minded around [read more...]
Reperiolinguistics?
I am a long way from high school Latin and, to tell the truth, I was a mediocre student of the language way back then. Possibly because I did not attempt to [read more...]
AggieCon 42 this very weekend, March 25-27, in College Station
Time is slipping away. These past few days I have been busily revising part one of my new serial fiction, Rose Moon, when I should have focused on prepping for [read more...]
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