Ah, don’t you just love the winds of change blowing in Washington? For instance, noted Illinois shithead congressman John Shimkus— who last made headlines by walking out of one of the Commander-in-Chief’s speeches to a joint session of Congress— now tells us that we don’t have to worry about global warming, because God made a […]

So here’s Swiss adventurer/inventor Yves Rossy aloft in his newly redesigned jetpack. His last, slightly larger jetpack carried him across the English Channel.  This one can loop. Yves Rossy, the Swiss adventurer who has already flown across the English Channel using a winged jet-pack, pulled off another exploit Friday, flying two aerial loops in a […]

World Fantasy was a terrific convention.  I saw numbers of old friends I rarely meet, and I hope I made some newer, lasting friends.  Because too many of my peers now belong to the early-to-bed, early-to-rise school, I found myself partying with a younger crowd.  (They had better Scotch, anyway.) It was great to see […]

I’m hunkered down trying to finish the novel, so instead of posting something structured, intelligent, and thought-provoking, I thought I’d just point you at structured, intelligent, and thought-provoking discussions going on elsewhere. Over on Daniel Abraham’s site, we have an extended discussion of genre, featuring MLN Hanover trying to define urban fantasy, Ty Frank on […]