(Yeah, that title dates me, doesn’t it? Nothing says senile like referencing an obscure Jim Brown movie that has nothing to do with the ostensible topic. Yet here we go, maundering on . . . )I spent part of last week at the World’s Best Technology expo in Arlington, TX. Each morning I woke up […]

To my astonishment, there are still places available at Taos Toolbox, a master class for writers of science fiction and fantasy, June 6-19, 2010. Teaching will be Nancy Kress, Carrie Vaughn, and my ownself. My surprise, however, is your opportunity! Apply at once, so as not to miss out!

Okay, so I saw In the Loop and I’d like to spend a lot of words explaining how good it was, but I can’t because I’m leaving town and haven’t yet done my laundry. It’s a British political satire about the spin-up to a familiar-sounding war, and it plays like a combination of Dr. Strangelove, […]

I remember when an acquaintance of mine was working as a substitute teacher, and was trying to find something for her grade school class to do. So she— the product of a typical American nuclear family— decided that they were going to play “house.” She figured that they would play members of a nuclear family, […]