Africa, the Other, and sf
Some items that may or may not add up to more than the sum of their parts: Okay, so there's...
Archive for Humor
Lockpick Pornography: The Novel
I've posted a couple of times in the past year about Joey Comeau's short novel Lockpick Pornography--first when I first...
Star Wars misconceptions
While checking the quote in that last entry, I stumbled into a forum thread on The misconceptions you had about...
California Winter: The Album
It occurred to me Sunday morning, after being awakened by a windstorm that was related to the flooding that's happening...
Curses
Luke H. just pointed to a New Yorker humor piece from mid-2004, "New Details Surface," by Paul Simms, that made...
Hitherby
Back in May, I posted some links to a few entries at Hitherby Dragons. I still haven't gone back to...
Separated at birth?
I truly do not have any sort of political agenda here. I was just struck by what seems to me...
Ballot measure drinking game
I started this as a postscript to the previous entry, but I got a little carried away and decided to...
Things that have made me laugh this morning
The morning's just barely begun, and already two things have made me laugh:
Spam notes
Noted in passing: got spam this morning from one Ereshkigal Browne. Who knew that the goddess of the underworld had...
Meme in my pants
There are two long fairly serious entries I want to write soon: one about the origins of my zeppelin story...
Perspective
It just occurred to me that my biggest problem is a lack of perspective, an inability to determine which problems...