Monthly Archives: July 2007

Explode for Entertainment Purposes Only

Happy Fourth of July to those who care about that sort of thing. I decided to post this video rather than other more spectacular ones I ran across at YouTube (Hendrix at Woodstock, Ray Charles at the Bicentennial, etc.) because … Continue reading

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Like a Sturgeon…

Was Ted Sturgeon up to eight feet tall, or did he just write that way?

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Two Responses to Ruth Franklin on Genre

When, a month or two ago, I read the following asinine remark in Ruth Franklin’s review of Michael Chabon’s new novel Michael Chabon has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of the shallow … Continue reading

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