My friend and Brain Harvest co-editor Eden is in Fantasy magazine’s final three flash-fiction Halloween stories. Readers get to pick the best, and Eden’s Empire Builder is neck and neck with some other guy’s story. You could make a difference by voting here.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Confucius, the paragon of Chinese wisdom, said:
There is no difference between virtue and right living.
He must have been on to something, because two thousand years later The Honeydogs said:
Living right is easy. What goes wrong, you’re causing it.
[ed: Dean pointed out this quote is actually from Son Volt.]
So the wise from then and now agree. [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Cory Doctorow is such a phenomenon that I don’t even know how to hyperlink him – sci fi writer, editor/founder of Boing Boing, intellectual property reformist. Most pertinent to my own life, he was a teacher at Clarion West 2008, which perhaps you know. More pertinent than that, he’s the reason I went [...]
The response to Ardi’s unearthing was not surprising. According to surveys, barely a third of Egyptian adults have ever heard of Charles Darwin and just 8% think there is any evidence to back his famous theory. Teachers, who might be expected to know better, seem equally sceptical. In a survey of nine Egyptian state schools, [...]
I’ve never kissed a bat
I’ve never kissed a goose
But I could shake a chicken in the middle of the roost.
I used to have a routine where I’d go to Angeno’s a few times a week and eat pizza and read a book. This had its hayday in the mid-nineties, when I played a lot of basketball and worked out like a man possessed and could afford (both fiscally and physically) to eat a [...]
First, and unrelatedly, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. This makes me feel weird. Thorbjoern Jagland, one of the Nobel Committe and possessor of a very fine name, said: “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better [...]