Shelob

Well, today is the first full day of me sans family. I got home at midnight last night and promptly had to feed the caterpillars more leaves. Which involved going out into the dark yard with a pair of scissors, cutting twigs off the apple tree, and transferring the caterpillars to the new [...]

Friday it is.

1. I have a cold. I called in sick to work, because I have a sore throat and general ick.
2. NASA moved up the day of the launch one damn day. It’s ten days from now. Changing hotel and plane reservations at this point is . . . challenging. [...]

My day, a typical Wednesday

Wednesdays are one of my days off. Wednesdays and Thursdays. I look forward to my days off; I love spending time with my family, I love being with my kids and J. I like teaching school, I like catching up on projects, I like going places.
But I also look forward to going [...]

Congratulations, Elise

Elise Matthesen has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award. In the category of Special Award – Non-Professional, she has been nominated “for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her ‘artist’s challenges.’”
Congratulations, Elise. I’m sure [...]

The Mutant Problem (Fanfiction.)

The Mutant Problem, by xenokattz, is one of the most imaginatively original pieces of transformative fiction I have seen in a long while. Written for the LiveJournal Marvel Crossing Ficathon, the premise of which is to crossover Marvel’s various movie properties, the fic consists of a New York Times Opinion piece. A photo-essay [...]

Quatermass and other things of the moment.

1. Today’s Fantastic Fangirl’s Q&A is a fun one — what dream project to do you want to hear announced at a comic-con this year? We specifically say that reality is no object. And thank goodness for that.
A lot of fannish engagement with a property is this sort of thing, you know? [...]

Well, it’s Day 23.

Some of you reading this might possibly have heard that I like a wee spot of coffee now and then. A wee spot of coffee, or a depth charge (coffee with one or two shots of espresso in it,) or a can of Coke. A can of Coke, or a Red Bull, or [...]

11:14

I rent movies based on a lot of different criteria. I have categories in my head, like “all the writers I like love this, I should watch it.” (The Wire.) Or, “Ebert says this changed filmmaking.” (McCabe and Mrs. Miller.) Or, “this is the hot thing in a fandom I [...]

July miscellane

1. Today is Wednesday, so new comics ahoy!
2. K lost a tooth, so both kids are down one tooth. Yay for them.
3. I just read a bunch of reviews and commentary regarding Detective Comics, Kate Kane, and Renee Montoya. All of which made me a wee bit irked. The [...]

CONverence 2009 Friday morning

1. The theme of the convention may be comedy SF/F, but the unofficial cultural gestalt theme from the collective unconscious is steampunk. More — a lot more — on that later. The brief note of my thinking is, why do we as a culture choose this moment to attach ourselves to a [...]