The Fandoms-As-Exes Meme

Note: By fandom I mean the property itself, not the fannish communities surrounding that property. The one who seduced you, screwed you over, broke your heart in a million pieces, and laughed about it. Battlestar Galactica. My god, show, what the hell HAPPENED to you? What were you thinking? How could you go crazy in [...]

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 [...]

Resistance is futile.

There’s a meme running around on LiveJournal, where people ask one questions and one answers them. So these are the questions posed to me – 1. What is the best thing for you about being a parent? The worst? The best? That’s easy. There are these *awesome* people living with me. They are continually surprising [...]

Get-to-know-you

I spotted this on my LiveJournal FList: The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. I [...]

Work and music and movies

Today’s QA briefing was mixed. My center, ZMP, is doing the best in the nation at avoiding class A/B errors. However, in the past nine months we doubled the previous year’s amount of class c and proximity errors. So, if you fly through ZMP airspace you’ll be perfectly safe, though one of us may be [...]