Other Good Movies I’ve Seen Lately

I should add — some non-SF films I’ve seen lately were:

Nixon. Well, I haven’t finished it, yet, but I enjoyed what I saw. Anthony Hopkins, damn, that man can act.
New York, I Love You. A fine omnibus of shorts, this was like a collection of flash fiction set in what seems like a realer [...]

Trotsky: A Graphic Biography by Rick Geary

I remember, when I took a film course as an undergraduate, studying with a professor named Don Kerr. When we watched The Birth of a Nation he read to us from the local newspaper in Saskatoon, an article dating back to the film’s release there. I still recall the amusement shared by all when the [...]

For you Home Brewers out there…

… or anyone interested in beer, brewing, and associated lore. I doubt the whole book will be of interest, but these few pages I typed out are probably at least a little bit interesting if you’re a brewer:
From Roles of the Northern Goddess by Hida Ellis Davidson. London: Routledge, 1998.
(from the Chapter titled “Mistress [...]

Hugo Bids? Send the Sofa Some Love

I’m not really campaigning for a Hugo or a Nebula or anything like that, folks. 2009 was a very slow year for me, and the short story competition is huge. I love both of my published stories from 2009, but I’m much more excited about the stories coming out in 2010. Still, I guess I’m [...]

Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle

It is almost certainly unfair to Guy Delisle that reviewers will compare this book with his earlier Pyongyang, for that latter graphic novel was a major achievement, and for me at least, it represented something new in the world of comics. I read it in wonder, a few years ago, amazed at how Delisle managed [...]

Shekhar Kapur’s Snake Woman, Vol 1: “A Snake in the Grass” by Zeb Wells (script) and Michael Gaydos (art).

So, graphic novels. The last few books I’ve read were all funny books. Expect the reviews over the next week or so to be focused on that area.
Yeah, it’s hard for me to say much without spoiling this, but then again, I don’t think there are many surprises in this book, and it’s been [...]

I’d Rather Die Than Give a Speech!: The Comprehensive Guide for Public Speaking by Michael M. Klepper

This is a book I picked up in a used book section in Depok, a small suburb of Jakarta. I was amazed to find, upon leafing through it, that it covers a lot of the same issues I cover in my undergraduate Public Speaking course. What’s more, since it is written for the average [...]

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