Tim Grieve in this morning's Salon War Room: What Colbert did to the president and the press corps is news: He didn't shoot anybody Saturday night at the Hinckley Hilton, but he laid them out in just about every other way imaginable. It was as an
Walking to the subway just before nine, I could see the smoke from this Greenpoint warehouse fire, still rising in a thick column way off in the distance. Random bag check in the Steinway Street subway station. I didn't get picked, but as always I was prepared to
Today I am part of the Brain Parade at Meme Therapy, along with Alastair Reynolds, Neal Asher, and Jeff Duntemann.
Electronic copies of two more new old stories have gone on sale at Fictionwise this week: * "Two Paths in the Forest Toulemonde" (Science Fiction Age, 1994) * "Why I Think I'll Be Staying Home Tonight" (Electric Velocipede, 2004) These are the last two stories that
Stephen Colbert has balls of steel. He not only roasted the president to cinders at the White House Correspondents' Association banquet while the man sat stone-faced scant yards away, but he did it without losing much composure in front of an audience almost pathologically unwilling to laugh. Watching
The new Pearl Jam album Pearl Jam comes out tomorrow. People are lining up around the block at the Tower Records at Broadway and 4th, where a midnight purchase of the new disc will also get you a free ticket to a secret Pearl Jam club show at Irving Plaza
Presented without comment, except to say that it takes a long time to load, here is the New York Times' interactive New York City homicide map, mashed up using Ajax apparently.
Three blokes from England (well, one's Canadian, really) run a great little SF blog-and-podcast combo called Meme Therapy. They interviewed me for the blog, and the result has just gone live: http://memetherapy.blogspot.com/2006/04/william-shunn.html I recommend their podcast as well.
❦curmudgeon told me to list 10 things I like that start with the letter N. The first couple will be easy, but after that? I'll definitely be giving my neurons a workout. Here we go: 1. New York City. I don't love everything about this place,
I am confirmed as a program participant for L.A.con IV, the 64th World Science Fiction Convention. I don't know yet what I'll be doing on the program, but I will be at the con in Anaheim all five days, from August 23rd to 27th.
I know how much trouble I have getting anything done on days I post in the ol' LiveJournal. So how do the hardcore bloggers manage to get anything else done? A mystery for the ages.
In which Bill and his trainer Elder Fowler knock on many doors in search of elusive gold, stumbling at last upon a fairytale cottage and the irresistible enchantress within.
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