UPDATE (31 Oct. 2013): The video linked in the original post is gone. I think this is mostly the same one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb1ITUzW4NU ORIGINAL POST: <video unavailable> Brown-skinned people are either poor children with hearts of gold or scary witch-doctor/fortune-teller types, which is natural since brown-skinned people are all poor and have inborn magical abilities. No other brown-skinned local people besides poor children and scary witch-doctor/fortune-teller types should be included in shots. If they absolutely must do so, have them appear for no more than one second at a time, and in the background. Have your Korean characters talk to the …
Month: January 2009
Another Good One Gone
Yeah, we only really hear about the famous people who we lose. The not-famous people, those are personal tragedies, but the famous ones, they’re not so much tragedies to us as a moment to pause and reflect about how a human being could be excellent. Or maybe I’m just cold? Or distracted? I mean, obituaries and goodbyes propagate through the blogosphere and people mostly post videos of the person singing or ranting, or choice quotes from their books, or whatever. Maybe people are moved to tears, maybe not. Me, I just kind of pause and go, “Huh. Another good one …
Fiction News & Reviews
Well, while I was busy whittling away at a couple of stories in the past few days and weeks, a lot of stuff went on, including some reading and reviews of my own stories that have appeared here and there. I’ll group the links as logically as I can, and I hope I haven’t missed anything. Award Eligibility and Stuff: Robert J. Sawyer was kind and generous enough to mention on his blog that I am one of three Canadian authors eligible for a John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer this year. (That is, for 2009’s WorldCon.) The …
Slightly Disturbing
19 Created by OnePlusYou – Free Dating Sites The thing is, it’s probably about right. I’ve been around large groups of little kids — not five year olds, but first and second graders. And I think that number’s about right. I’d tire out and they’d drag me down, and then it’d be game over.
Feed Update
Those who are reading this by feed will note that I’ve made some changes to the feed. Pretty much all I’ve really done is splice in my del.icio.us links and my (neglected) Flickr stream into the main feed. You’ll see updated links posted to del.icio.us, plus ay new photos that show up. One reason is that I sometimes have links I’d like to post and share, but which I don’t feel really have enough to say about to write about them. One downside is that they won’t, I don’t think, appear on the Livejournal mirror of the site, but I’m …