About me, some stuff
I am on the following panels: Tense Viewpoint – Friday 3pm Killing Off Characters – Friday 4pm Strong In Body, Stronger In Mind – Friday 5pm Good Villains – Saturday Noon Buffy vs Edward; What Would Dracula Think? – Saturday 5pm Religion In Fantasy And Science Fiction – Sunday 10amContinue Reading
On September 1, 2010, Paul and I will officially cease being residents of 1319 Indian Street, after being there since 1993. That’s seventeen years. At that same time, we will cease being residents of Bellingham altogether. Twenty years for me, longer for Paul. In honor of this, on August 28,Continue Reading
Monday, sixish, here: http://www.casuelitasrestaurant.com/ If you want to go, let me know for headcount.Continue Reading
Because I wrote this: Games are not a narrative art form people keep referring me to this: Roger Ebert: Video games can never be art To reiterate my argument from two years ago: although video games have some storytelling aspects (worldbuilding, etc.) they are not really a narrative art formContinue Reading
I’m participating in the Clarion West write-a-thon this year. If you would like to support me, I suggest donations, as usual, in extremely lucky multiples of thirteen dollars.Continue Reading
But this morning I’m so… tired… I googled “evelyn evelyn” so that I could post future tour dates: http://www.evelynevelyn.com/news.html Google provided me “controversy” as a possible — what would you call that? Phrase completer? Anyway, so that’s how I found out there is a controversy. I guess. http://community.feministing.com/2010/02/evelyn-evelyn-fandom-and-joke.html On theContinue Reading
Showbox at the Market tonight: http://www.showboxonline.com/market/eventdetail.php?id=26985 I am going and hope to run into Seattle people there. Actually, I’m hoping to run into Seattle goth community people who I haven’t seen since the Sisters of Mercy concert, but I dunno how likely that is. And if I’m alllll alllloooone that’sContinue Reading
How ‘The Karate Kid’ ruined the modern world (by introducing the concept of the training montage) So, people bail on diets. Not just because they’re harder than they expected, but because they’re so much harder it seems unfair, almost criminally unjust. You can’t shake the bitter thought that, "This amountContinue Reading
Friday, 1:00 p.m., Evergreen 1 Are Vampires Just for Tweens? Friday, 3:00 p.m., Cascade 10 Did the Revolution of the `60s Succeed? Friday, 10:00 p.m., Cascade 4 Zombies: How Do They Happen? Saturday, 11:00 a.m., Cascade 5 Old-Fashioned Horror Saturday, 8:00- 10:00 p.m., Evergreen 2 Talebones Live! Saturday, 10:00 p.m.,Continue Reading
Back during the Clinton years (remember those?) when Democrats failed to pass "Hillarycare," Paul and I had a debate with my parents about health care reform. I wasn’t a huge fan of the Clinton plan, I thought it was weak and vague. But the conflict with my parents wasn’t aboutContinue Reading
I dropped my phone. The battery popped out. Now it doesn’t work. So I can’t be reached by phone until the new battery arrives, assuming that is the only problem.Continue Reading
Paul and I are going to be here tomorrow night: http://neumos.com/neumos.phpContinue Reading