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The Most Important Announcement from San Diego Comic Con 2010

27 July 2010
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News For Nerds

26 May 2010

Matt Wilson’s blunt and excellent post at The Bureau Chiefs (the group blog of the Fake AP Stylebook creators) goes after what passes for comics and video game journalism in its present state and points out in a numbered list just why it sucks so bad.  And yes, I’m pointing that out on a blog [...]

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Winter Storm Warning

24 February 2010

HOLY SHIT BUY BREAD AND MILK! IN THE FROZEN WASTELANDS OF THE APOCALYPSE TO COME, THE ICE WANDERERS WHO TRAVERSE THE APPALACHIAN DRIFT WILL KILL FOR MILK AND BREAD, RISKING FROSTBITE AND DEATH ITSELF TO NOURISH THEIR COLD-BLASTED BODIES WITH STALE CRUSTS AND THICK, VITAMIN-D-ENRICHED LIFE NECTAR.  MILK AND BREAD! GO NOW OR THEY’LL BE [...]

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The Mathematics of Fiction

16 December 2009

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. We’ll look back one day and realize it ruined everything. When I first heard about PPZ, I wanted to lobby the state legislature to change laws so that I could marry the thing. I love Jane Austen, and I love zombies.  What, I ask you, could be better? How, I [...]

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Top Ten of the Decade

10 December 2009

1. Item that most people will rank #2 or #3 – a safe choice that has consensus in that everybody likes it but not enough to make its inclusion as number 1 seem controversial or edgy. 2. -5. Safe choices that are primarily chosen by looking at sales charts/box office numbers/Metacritic scores and choosing the [...]

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The Twilight Saga

19 November 2009

If you are my fake internet friend on Facebook, you may have seen the commentary on a recent change in my relationship status immediately turn to talk of vampires, culminating in exclamations like “Vampire Rock Band!” that are very funny basically only to me and the person leaving that specific comment. There is, as might [...]

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Things I Hate: Being Single – Addendum

1 October 2009

Once again, a conversation I have off-blog has made its way into a post just so that I have something to post about. Somebody said this to me on one of my more recent failed dates: “The way you talk is so funny; you’re all proper-like.” WTF. Let’s just set aside for a second that [...]

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Small Press Marketing – How To Fix It

29 September 2009

One of the things I notice when I go to cons is that small press (the small small presses, not the Top Shelves or the Fantagraphii) and self-publishers don’t get how to market their work a lot of times.  The future of the medium for them lies in leveraging the web, but I still see [...]

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Advice My Mother Gave Me

20 August 2009

I love my mother. She means well. Sometimes, though, my mother says things that baffles me.  Once my mother asked me why I got home from a date at 5:30 in the morning, asked what I could possibly have been doing.  That’s the relationship I have with my mother.  She’s a conscientious meddler. She told [...]

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More On Living Online

13 August 2009

This is a bit of a riff on an older post that I’ve been thinking about pretty consistently.  I’ve been doing a lot of reading and discussing about personal habits on the social web, and it has me examining my own. Twitter Why I Don’t Follow. I don’t reciprocally follow 100% of the time.  Some [...]

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