New Year’s Eve, 2010

I’m not doing anything special for the new year, so this will be a perfectly mundane post. Going to the Y this morning, and working tonight. I did get tomorrow off of work, so, yay. 1. I am reading more novel-length fiction, suddenly, than I have in a good year-and-a-half. I’ve been reading non-fiction, of [...]

That year-end meme that’s making the rounds

1) Was 2010 a good year for you? Yes! 2) What was your favorite moment of the year? This may be a recurrent theme, but getting published. My essay for Whedonistas was accepted and will be out in March 2011, I think. And my short story “No Return Address” was published by Strange Horizons in [...]

The Monday after

1. I got earwormed this morning with Sisters of Mercy’s “Lucretia My Reflection.” Here, let me share. 2. I’m listening to an audiobook of The Girls of Murder City, by Douglas Perry. It’s the story of the women who inspired the story/play/musical/movie “Chicago.” The woman who wrote the play, Maurine Watkins, was one of the [...]

Christmas Eve 2010

I have to leave for work in a bit. Not many planes fly on Christmas Eve, but some do. And those planes, and those people on those planes, they need air traffic controllers too. Hence it’s my turn to work. As a result, though, we did Christmas a bit early. We open presents on Christmas [...]

2010 Moments in Fandom

I ganked this meme from LJ and Caroline — Your main fandom of the year? Twitter I think my biggest fandom this year was Twitter. I still love this social proprioception. I love hearing about the days my friends are having, as well as the days of various writers, artists, celebrities, or people I vaguely [...]

Year in Music 2010, part two

[This is part two of my post on this year's music. Part one can be found here.] Here we go, with more songs and videos:

Year in Music 2010, part 1

[This post is split into two parts, for length. This is part one. Part two is here.] The Year in Music 2010 This year was the year of the playlist. Many of my favorite songs came to my attention through character-themed playlists given to me by friends. It occurs to me that I don’t know [...]

Solstice eve

It’s time to mention, again, my favorite solstice poem. I blogged about it last year, here.. And you can find the full text here. Go, read it. Go on, I’ll wait. This year I’m thinking that this poem is likely the first steampunk story I ever read. There is a whole world there, a whole [...]

You tell me; reviewing Black Swan

I saw the classic Catherine Deneuve film Repulsion in college. I saw it in the college’s weekend cinema at at time in my life where I was reasonably unhappy. I walked out of the theater sick and shaking and half-convinced that I was going out of my damn mind. I really don’t like stories that [...]

Unplumbed steampunk depths

When I look at the steampunk stories that are out there, I think that we are nowhere near through mining this genre for what it can tell us about ourselves. There is so much more to it than airships and railroads. History is always weirder and more complicated than you think. 1. Everyone knows that [...]