By Fred, on January 28, 2010, 6:30 pm
I was sad to see that J.D. Salinger had passed away. I think John Hodgman said it best: “I prefer to think JD Salinger has just decided to become extra reclusive.”
I’m much more sad to hear the terrible news about Kage Baker, who has apparently lost her battle with cancer and has only a few weeks . . . → Read More: Thursday various
By Fred, on December 1, 2009, 6:30 pm
Kurt Busiek: “[L]et’s face it, you never know when someone Peter Parker went to high school with is going to turn into a super-villain.”
“The gold-coloured convertible turns heads on impoverished Cambodia’s roads — not least because of creator Nhean Phaloek’s outlandish claim that it can be operated telepathically.” Okaaaaayyy…
Patrick Stewart on the legacy of domestic violence. . . . → Read More: Tuesday various
By Fred, on November 23, 2009, 6:30 pm
Regender.com is an interesting experiment, although obviously imperfect. In its regendering of this site, for instance, it changed Billy Joel’s “Don’t Ask Me Why” into “‘Donna’t Ask Me Why’ by Billie Joyce.” [via]
This raises the troubling possibility that some of our authors are in fact cats: Cat registered as hypnotherapist [via]
I posted . . . → Read More: Monday various
By Fred, on August 25, 2009, 6:34 pm
J.R. Blackwell on high school:
If my life now was like high school, if my “real life” as they say, was at all like the lack of freedom and harassment I experienced while in high school, then things wouldn’t be going well for me at all. Perhaps then, that is how high school prepares you for . . . → Read More: Tuesday various
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