Ten years ago I sold my 87 Pontiac Sunbird for scrap, packed an army duffel, got on a plane, and landed in Los Angeles. The near-year I spent there encompassed some of the most fun I’ve had along with the absolute worst point in my life so far. I do not regret a minute of [...]
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Regretfully cannot make your seance. (Date with Galileo.)
I’ve been working on a bit of exposition about racism in speculative fiction, but that’s been derailed by some ridiculous goings-on over at the group blog I participate in, Steel City Skeptics, on the subject of the local news being loco perhaps, but certainly not news.
I figured I would repost a note I made a [...]
roll down a beltway onramp, Dick
Every time I see Cheney I think about the day his motorcade got me stuck on a sidewalk in Dupont Circle for just enough time to make me late, and his big smug face smirking from behind an insuficiently tinted window at the frustrated crowd of communters.
I cannot wait until this story becomes “the time [...]
Overdue thanks
You were a library assistant at the Frankford branch of the Philadelphia Free Library in 1991 and the only one who would still deal with me after I told the nosy head librarian to “go home and pet your forty cats if you don’t feel like doing your job” when she attempted to deny me [...]
On teenage rebellion
Sam Ogden inquired on Skepchick last month about whether geek chic was yet another passing trend or if it has some quality that sets it apart and will help it endure. This got me thinking about where I’ve fit into the trend spectrum and how that has changed over time.
I look at trends and subcultures [...]
lost and found
October is passing quickly and so goes my last scramble to move out of the Hobo Alley apartment. I keep finding things that I’m not even sure how I’ve managed to hold onto through years of annual moves. And then, completely unexpected, a bit of the past found me.
The subject line read, “J. K. sent [...]