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Not to keep on kicking the Slate.com movie reviewers To go on kicking the Slate movie reviewers: there’s a hyperbolic review on that site of Mike Judge’s little-seen Idiocracy entitled “The DVD That Will Save America”. The title is no … Continue reading →

Long years have passed since Minnesota unleashed Jesse Ventura on the unsuspecting policy world. It’s nice to see my home state is still in the vanguard of imaginary government. Maybe this sort of thing could be adapted to Iraq?

Read, reread and rereread with increasing lack of comprehension at Sartre’s Slate’s “Movie Club” feature: “What was Little Miss Sunshine if not a brilliant ontological dissection of the perils of sublimation?” I think the answer is, “A movie.” But I’m … Continue reading →

John O’Neill at Black Gate wrote me just after Christmas to tell me he was buying the most recent Morlock novella (a sequel to “Payment Deferred”), and I have been invited to submit stories to two different places. So naturally … Continue reading →

Merry Christmas to those who like that sort of thing. To all a good night!

A message from the far future… of 1975!!! [Edit (2/14/07): The old YouTube link seems to have broken so my technical aide son found another at iFilm.]

Paul Jessup has put up an on-line poll about the state of the sf/f fiction market. Seen at Steve Goble‘s blog.

This one glommed from Danny Adams‘ LJ. My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: His Excellency James the Extemporaneous of Similar Ealand Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061219.html

Edward Rothstein reviewed the new Robert Fagles translation of the Aeneid last week in the NYT. He likes it, but from the review I’m doubtful I will. He doesn’t quote much (a bad sign in a review of a poetic … Continue reading →