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This is the second-most-wonderful interview with Maurice Sendak ever. You might want headphones if you have kids or sensitive co-workers. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive I’m in Albany for work, and have [...]

Not horsefeathers, but dinosaur feathers preserved in amber. That’s so cool. And a few other things to keep this from being a ridiculously short post… Ada Lovelace Day is October 7 this year. I need to come up with a good topic, to follow my essays on Beatrix Potter and Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth Bear is [...]

Having worked rather later than intended (as it, it’s 6:30 on Friday and I’m still in the office), I’m not going to actually blog tonight. I do, though, have some things moved me in some way, all from Jonathan Carroll’s blog. I thought I’d both save them for later and share them with you all [...]

Hugo-winning author and Shadow Unit co-founder Elizabeth Bear, author of some of my favorite books, has a new book out today, Grail, third in a science fiction trilogy (Dust and Chill being its predecessors). I may have gone on a bit of a Bear-book-buying binge. When I went looking for a copy of Grail for [...]

[Ooops. I wrote this on 26 January, and apparently never hit post. Sorry! You've probably all seen the video by now.] While I’m on a science theme, here’s a new blog, Stars and Spice from a local scientist. She’s collected some excellent science videos, so now you have place to go if I don’t post [...]

If Criminal Minds met X-Files and had an even more awesome bastard lovechild, Shadow Unit would be it. Writers include Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, and Sarah Monette, all of whom are awesome in their own right. SU is a free online reader-funded fiction project with the conceit of being a TV show with regular episodes, [...]

A very full October has concluded. I still haven’t written much about Viable Paradise, but I will. I’ve been gone every weekend in October, and weekends are when I usually get blogging done. Also fiction writing and many other useful things. October was very good in many ways, but I’m glad it’s over. November won’t [...]

Sir Terry Pratchett believes that knights should have swords. So he made himself a rather nice one.

[No, not mine, sorry. It will happen eventually. I just need something to give away first.] An author I admire – let’s say author X – is doing a twitter giveaway. “When I get to n followers, where n is a nice round number, then I’ll give away something cool to the nth person.” This [...]