Monthly Archives: October 2009

I haven’t been blogging for the last week because I’ve been at the Austin Film Festival. I wrote a screenplay last year (my first, despite being ostensibly a film major), and the script made it into the semifinals for the … Continue reading →

I was doing some research, and came across this paper written about Rastas in science ficiton. It appears to be a student paper for a Dutch university course on cultural identity. I would like to share with you one particularly … Continue reading →

If I can, I would like to give some props to Patrice Sarath and the firestorm of controversy she started by criticizing NanoWriMO, or nananomori, or nananananananmo, or whatever. If I can summarize her point: "NanoWriMo ain’t that hot." This … Continue reading →

Let us talk about Hawk the Slayer. Back in the 80s, before we had bottom-budget SyFy channel movies, we had bottom-budget sword and sorcery. Hawk takes place in a primordial past where good guys and bad guys have a lot … Continue reading →

Long running readers of this blog will know that I’ve been pursuing a campaign to become Austin’s biggest freakshow on a bike. Austin sets a pretty high bar in that department, as anyone who’s seen the bicycle thong guy can … Continue reading →

Movies, like any artistic medium, will always have a darling of the moment. The best contestant for that category right now is mumblecore. At this point I am a minor expert in mumblecore. I have watched The Puffy Chair, Baghead, … Continue reading →

I’m putting together the material to do another quiz contest like my previous picture quiz, only this one will be about taco meat. I have about half the pictures ready to go, so it shouldn’t be that much longer. This … Continue reading →

I hope you’ve had a chance to listen to the pseudopod production of my story "Hometown Horrible" and also read my explanatory blog entry. A common response to "Hometown Horrible" is: "I wish I could actually read the fictional stories … Continue reading →

A little bit ago I fluffed out my podcast feeds, largely with science-based podcasts. I figured I wasn’t as smart as I ought to be, so I might as well work on that. Also, I’m getting so old and uncool … Continue reading →

Once again, I have cleared out the submissions and caught up on all the necessary correspondence. If history repeats itself, there’s going to be a period of a couple weeks that I read every sub as it comes in, before … Continue reading →