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Last night I watched Nacho Libre with Spanish subtitles. I’ve been trying to find a good comparison for the experience. Is it like eating burritos with chopsticks? Is it like watching an anime re-make of the Magnificent Seven? Is it … Continue reading →

i would like to take a moment to brag about how clever i am. i’ve been getting into electronics recently. actually, it’s nothing wildly impressive. it’s mainly just me being too cheap to throw away broken electronics gear. case in … Continue reading →

two vaguely crypto-zoological happenings in Texas recently. first, there’s a giant spiderweb being built near Dallas. what sinister motive could the spiders have for building such a thing? other than, you know, catching lots of Mosquitos. then there’s the growing … Continue reading →

If you’re looking for the armadillocon entries, they’re about four posts down. this is my new Tablet PC, a Gateway M275. For those of you unfamiliar with Tablet PC’s, the idea is you can write directly onto the touch-sensitive screen … Continue reading →

a story submitted to Space Squid made passing reference to The Beasts of Gevaudan, which you may recall from the movie "The Brotherhood of the Wolf." As it happens, much of what happened in the movie was from a reasonably … Continue reading →

Allow me to pimp a book to you. The title is "Tales from the Secret City." This is an anthology chapbook available from Lulu, and it bundles together the very best fiction from Austin’s most elite, most clandestine, and indubitably … Continue reading →

Steve’s photo spread of dillocon left out one very important event: The very first RevSF editors panel. Finally we were all rewarded with the public adoration we always knew we so richly deserved. Amazingly, people actually showed up to our … Continue reading →

Here are some photos and captions put together by my colleague Steve Wilson. Armadillocon Opening night party Lawrence Person and Mikal Trimm trade sarcastic quips about something or other. RevSF Editor-at-Large Mark Finn chats with RevSF Co-editor of Fiction Matthew … Continue reading →

late one night at Apollocon I wandered into the media room and they were playing a Finnish amateur parody movie where the Star Trek federation and Babylon 5 fight. It’s called Star Wreck the Pirkinning and you can get it … Continue reading →

at the last dillocon, rick klaw, in the midst of some pro-bob howard rant, snarled at me, "H.P. Lovecraft is the most over-rated writer in the world," as if that wasn’t somehow the point. fans aren’t enthralled by the shoggoths … Continue reading →