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I’ve been more or less offline for a few days. The tablet PC stopped turning on, and while I was waiting for the new motherboard to show up, the backup Dell (the one that Klaw has been advising me on … Continue reading →

I didn’t get to see many of the films at the Austin Film Festival because I was spending most of my time in panels at the conference, or hanging out in the bar, or drinking like a Wisconsin native at … Continue reading →

Real quick, before we return to important things, let me just say that it’s awesome that there’s a species of finch on the Galapagos Islands that drinks blood. And not just any blood, the blood of blue-footed boobies. There’s a … Continue reading →

For the past month or so, I’ve been visiting Heavens-Above.com, a website that takes your position on the globe and calculates when various low-earth orbit phenomena will be visible from your position. For instance, here in Austin, the International Space … Continue reading →

Cavan Terrill at Fusion Fragment has been kind enough to publish another story in my People’s War series. Fusion Fragment has previously posted my story "Pioneers and Indians" which takes place a few months earlier in this near-future chronology. This … Continue reading →

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 →