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Nixon, That No-Good SOB

2013-03-21T15:57:08Z

Just when you thought your opinion of Tricky Dick couldn't get any lower, you find out he sabotaged the 1968 peace talks.

I don't know what to watch first

2013-02-15T21:35:10Z

The entire Criterion collection at Hulu is free this weekend.

Boulet

2013-01-25T19:13:20Z

My buddy bedii (Bruce) clued me in to this artist. He often does multi-panel comic stories, but this single panel pisstake on Miyazaki tickled me. If you check his earlier work out, make sure you hover your mouse over them to read his comments.

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Orycon Schedule

2012-10-07T02:12:30Z

Here is my schedule for the upcoming Orycon. I always have a wonderful time there, not least because I get to make my annual pilgrimage to Powell's Books.

Edd Vick's Readings
Grant Fri Nov 2 9:00pm-9:30pm
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Running Petite Conventions
Madison Sat Nov 3 12:00pm-1:00pm
Advantages and pit falls from experienced, creative con runners.
Jerry Kaufman, Suzanne Tompkins, Tom Whitmore, Edd Vick

The best graphic novel you're not reading - titles that deserve a wider audience.
Hawthorne Sat Nov 3 2:00pm-3:00pm
Not just a litany of underrated work -- but rather, using these examples
to examine how a work comes to be underrated. Why are they overlooked?
What makes these worthy of greater attention?
Aaron Duran, Edd Vick, Scott Allie

How a writer's workshop affected my life
Hamilton Sat Nov 3 5:00pm-6:00pm
The pros and cons of attending writer's workshops. Can attendees be
productive and have fun at the same time or it is all work and no play? Do
online workshops count? What about workshops that break writers?
Annie Bellet, John C. Bunnell, Grá Linnaea, Edward Muller, Edd Vick

Supermensch

2012-10-04T19:26:55Z

TV writer Ken Levine (M*A*S*H, Cheers) wrote the opening of a sitcom where Superman is adopted by a Jewish couple instead of the Kents. Then the next day he broke down his decisions, showing how the plot was driven at each point, where he inserted jokes that moved the story or defined the characters, and where he gave nods to the Superman canon. Not only loads of fun, but educational as well.

New Story Posted: "Lacewing"

2012-09-11T17:26:25Z

I've entered the Lascaux Flash competition with a story called "Lacewing". There are already 80 entries as I write this, so I suspect the competition will be fierce. I'd love comments on the story if you are into that sort of thing.

A runnin' around kind of day

2012-09-02T02:20:32Z

Let's see:

1) Woke up on time, not too early not too late. Felt rested, so there's a plus.

2) Katie and I ate the other roll of orange rolls left over from Thursday night's sleepover and brekkies. Realized 'roll of orange rolls' sounds redundant, but didn't want to confuse things by calling it a 'cylinder of orange biscuity pucks'.

3) Ferried K to Drill Team in the International District.

4) Drove up to Ballard to a superamazing estate sale the Tom Whitmore told me about. The house looks tiny, so I don't know how they managed to fit a bajiillion books in there, 49.5% of them on railroading and 49.5% of them on labor relations and 49.5% of them on musical composers. I bought an armload of books from the other .002%* including some Christmas gifts for (redacted) and a 1920s anthology of ghost stories. Considering how packed-to-the-gills the house was with books, it was croggling to hear the book dealers talk about the metric tons of books that were bought from there yesterday.

*if that doesn't add up to 100% I blame new math.

5) Went back to pick herself up from drill team. It turned out it wasn't a practice; they were actually performing today, and hadn't gotten started til I got there at the time I'd usually pick her up. It was a pleasant little amble around a couple of blocks, interrupted only when one of the girls passed out.

6) Lunched at Qdoba. We shared a chicken quesadilla. They have a prep area where they ask you what you want on your whatever, and I kept answering before noticing it was the burrito of the guy after us. Hope he liked it.

7) We went to the Westlake bus tunnel to see about getting K an age-appropriate bus pass, but the office was only open on weekdays. Drat.

8) Katie shopped Nordstroms Rack, which was right next to the bus tunnel. I think she spent all of 3.4 minutes there before saying she was done. Sometimes she's a shopper; sometimes she ain't.

9) Since we were near the Pike Place Market, we wandered around there for awhile. They didn't have the dried mango K likes, and the bookstore didn't have anything I wanted, so we satisfied ourselves with a couple flats of strawberries.

10) and then home...

America's Infrastructure

2012-08-30T18:29:25Z

Yes, we are in bad shape. Nothing better than a 'C+', and most categories having to do with water are 'D-'.

Foolscap Programming Questionnaire is out

2012-08-21T18:33:14Z

I'm working programming this year for Foolscap along with Tom Whitmore. I've sent out the questionnaire for everyone to let us know which panels they'd like to be on or attend. Unlike most conventions, Foolscap invites all members to be panelists.

If you're planning on making it to the con this year, please let me know so I can send you the list. Even if you aren't planning to be on any panels, there may be one that's just right for you, and I'm also interested in finding out which ones you'd like to attend.

Purty GIFs

2012-07-12T09:59:18Z

"Born in 1987" is a show at the Photographers' Gallery in London featuring the art of the GIF. They'll be displayed on a big screen, and area also on the website I linked above. By nature limited, this form forces the artists to work small: in time, in the number of colors, and in space. I'll post a couple of the ones that caught my fancy under the cut.

(I wonder if the artist noticed the typos and decided to leave them in?)

Sale: "No Man Left Behind"

2012-07-11T23:23:33Z

I've sold a flash story set during the Vietnam War to zombie anthology A Quick Bite of Flesh.

Trivia: What do the people of Viet Nam call that conflict? A: "The American War"

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Inflatoplane

2012-07-11T18:48:08Z

Here's a very cool inflatable airplane from Goodyear that was marketed to the air force as a 'plane in a box' that could be dropped to downed pilots or carried easily by a jeep. Sadly, it was vulnerable to arrows...

SF in Africa

2012-07-11T01:55:00Z

BBC's Your World covers the state of science fiction in Africa.

Write-a-thon Wreminder

2012-07-11T01:09:05Z

Clarion West is more than halfway over, but their Write-a-thon continues. A whole busload of talented writers are pounding the keys and hoping for your bucks to help support one of the premier writing workshops in the universe.

Donate now to help them keep on keeping on!

Nina Conti puts words in a man's mouth.

2012-06-12T01:18:13Z

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Congrats to Katie

2012-06-06T21:14:45Z

Her school had commencement last night. She's moving up to the 8th grade at the same school, during which we will have to find a f#&%ing excellent high school for her.

Thanks for being a great daughter and for getting on the honor roll several times (they don't call it that, but it quacks like an honor roll)!

The Suicide Shop

2012-06-03T07:13:19Z

Morbid much? Looks like it could be a fun movie:

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Time Travelers Simply Dash

2012-06-01T16:27:27Z

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The Fat Face Blues

2012-05-18T01:32:45Z

Evidently, there is a newish product in Japan, a corset for your face. Do I have the tag 'ick'? No? Well, I do now.

Tuning Your Genome

2012-05-18T01:23:31Z

Scientists inject nanoparticles that enable them to turn specific genes on and off. There's a way to do it without the injection, but: "this would still require growing tumors inside humans to actually get these cell cultures in place, which means the treatment isn't yet ethically permissible in humans." Might have to wait a while for this treatment, though I expect a superhero to be based on the concept any moment now.

Artists Help Japan

2012-04-05T02:08:55Z

Got an extra thousand dollars? If so, you might win the item I'd love the most from this Artists Help Japan eBay auction: a 90-minute tour of Pixar.

TIL

2012-04-05T02:04:39Z

Today I Learned that there is an online archive of TV scripts.

I'm ready to take my next vehicle for a spin

2012-03-22T05:29:56Z

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Beautiful Animated Movie on the Horizon

2012-03-15T04:47:04Z

JENNY LEREW passes along this trailer for Tout en Haut due Monde (English title: Longway North)

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QoTD

2012-03-08T21:03:59Z

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
-Leonard Bernstein

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