While in Canada, I picked up a number of SF books by writers I’d never read before or, in some cases, even heard of. One of them was the novel Salt by Adam Roberts (who, it seems, has a web page here). I picked up this book used, and I did so mainly because...
Read more →The Marmot’s got a post up about yet another idiot Canadian in Korea. You know, Americans have a bad rap internationally, and though I wish I could agree with my friend Jessie that Canadians aren’t really as internationally beloved as they like to think they are, I do find a lot of Koreans more...
Read more →Someone named Shika asked me for info about the blog blockage and ways around it. I should mention that some of the blog blockage, if not all of it, is over. Let’s see: Blogspot pages are loading. Livejournal pages are loading. Mu.nu pages are loading. I think the blog blockage is actually over. Of...
Read more →In this week’s Friday Five, Laura picked out another big Green Booger, and on it was written the following question: I think the greatest tragedy of the world is that dragons don’t exist. What are the five things you really wish were true – and do you believe in them? Ah, there are so...
Read more →I’m just about to get into the short job of packing for the week. I sure hope that there will be an internet connection and some kind of laundry facilities in the dormitory where I’ll be spending the next three work weeks, but in case there aren’t, I’m packing a bunch of clothes. Tomorrow...
Read more →Been having fun passing a little time in the morning with my coffee over at Liquid Generation. I don’t know why, but it seems it takes me a little longer to get my brain started in the morning these days. Anyway, I took the Movie Villain quiz and I heartily concur: Oh yeah. I’m...
Read more →In an article at The Chronicle titled Waking Up From the American Dream, Sasha Abramsky worries that the rest of the world is losing faith in the American Dream. In many ways, the Iraq war is merely a pretext for a deeper discontent with how America has seemed to fashion a new global society,...
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